CUST-13 What’s New in Share Extras

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Share Extras provides a collection of thirty popular add-ons for Alfresco Share, from custom dashlets to full-blown site pages. With Alfresco 4.0 marking a turning point in improving Share Extensibility, this presentation looks at what has been achieved over the last eighteen months and how the project is now moving forward, including a showcase of some exciting new Social add-ons.

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Whatʼs New in Share Extras"Will Abson, Senior Solutions Engineer

@wabson"Jeff Potts, Chief Community Officer"

@jeffpotts01"

What is Share Extras?"

• A collection of popular add-ons for Share 3.3+ • Not just dashlets!

•  Admin Console Components"•  Document Library actions"•  Themes"•  Pages"•  and more"

• Easy-to-install JAR files

Motivations for Share Extras"

• Add additional capabilities •  ʻHole-fillersʼ"•  Demonstrate mash-up capabilities"

• Demonstrate best practice for developing, documenting and packaging extensions •  Using sample projects"

• Show how far Share can be pushed •  And discover itʼs limitations"

Where are we now?"

•  1 year old! •  4 contributors

•  Will Abson, Peter Löfgren, Florian Maul, Romain Guinot"•  37 add-ons, including

•  3 sample projects"•  7,000 downloads

•  Currently around 1k/month"• Most initial goals have been met, for now

Where to next?"

•  4.0 changes everything •  New opportunities for development"•  Some add-ons have been pushed upstream, others

(partially) duplicated"• Update of all relevant add-ons • New features also planned • Share Extras 2.0

Existing Add-ons"

• Almost all add-ons need some updates to work (best) with 4.0

• Changes may well break 3.3/3.4 compatibility •  1.0 branch will allow developers to maintain

backwards compatibility

New Features / Roadmap"

• Social add-ons • More Document Library actions • Data List extensions • More themes • More page definitions •  First custom site component •  First language packs

Social Add-ons"

•  Integrate to social providers via OAuth •  Yammer"•  Twitter"•  LinkedIn"•  Flickr"

• User-specific connections •  Complements 4.0 Social

Publishing"

The OAuth “Dance”"

Demonstration"

• Yammer Dashlet plus DocLib action •  LinkedIn Dashlet •  Twitter Dashlet •  Language Packs

Document Library Actions"

• Demonstrate different types of action •  Test the limits of the new system •  Ideas?

Data Lists"

•  Lots of interest in this area! • Data list actions •  Import from CSV

Themes"

•  Themes can now be site-specific! • Existing OOTB themes are limited •  Ideas?

Pages and site components"

•  Test out the new Extensibility features • Make use of sample templates • What are the limitations?

will.abson@alfresco.com@wabson

http://sharextras.org/"