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Fixing the invite email template in Alfresco Share

apr 05 2011

Categories : Tips and Tricks, Tutorials

n Alfresco Share you can easily invite both internal and external users to a Collaboratio site. Alfresco will create the user account with accompanying password if the user doesn’t already exist. The invite is sent as an email message to the invitees containint links to accept or reject the invite, from thereon the user can start to collaborate in information in the collaboration site.

Google Site News dashlet with Drag and drop configuration

mar 07 2011

Categories : Tips and Tricks, Tutorials

If you are looking for plugins to Alfresco Share, Will Abson (personal blog) has created an excellent collection of dashlets, themes and document actions available at Share Extras. To this collection I have contributed a dashlet, Google Site News, the first version created soon after the release of the initial release of Alfresco Share. It has been available as part of the Alfresco Developer Toolbox downloadable from the Alfresco web site.

Tags : google, dashlet, Dnd

Previews of Outlook MSG files

dec 16 2010

Categories : Tips and Tricks

Here is a quick tip for getting previews if you store Microsoft Outlook msg format files in Alfresco Share. By default it creates no previews, but all it takes is a little configuration, supporting transformers are already in place.

Create a file in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension and name it msg-preview-context.xml, with content

Tags : outlook, preview, thumbnails, tumnaglar