Alfresco content services from installation to development: configuration, upgrades, administration and customization.
As an Alfresco developer/administrator, you probably already made a few mistakes in your DEV environment while trying to add new features, a custom model or something like that. The result of that mistake might be a corrupted Database or Content Store. Yes I know it’s hard to recognize it! But then what can be done to solve the issue and…
Different versions of Alfresco can be installed with different versions of Tomcat. Alfresco provide a default version with its installer but when installing Alfresco manually, an administrator can choose to install Alfresco using a different version of Apache Tomcat. Usually, each version of Alfresco is officially supported for only one specific version of Apache Tomcat and that’s fine for some…
Alfresco support, by default, the preview in your browser of some video formats like mp4 but doesn’t support some others like mkv, avi or wmv. Even if Google Chrome can read mkv files for example, if you try to use the action “View in Browser” (this is not the same thing as the preview), Chrome will not try to play…
In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to databases (tables, fields, aso…). These elements are quite essential to prepare a post like this one: more database oriented. I already explained what exactly are the consequences on the database side when…
I guess you all already know what a lifecycle is. We born, we live and we die… In fact, it’s exactly the same for Aflresco Nodes! Well, at least from an end user point of view. But what is really going on behind that? This is what I will try to explain in this post. First of all what is…
I didn’t have the opportunity to post a new entry about Alfresco in this blog for a long time now, so I will fix this! In this blog entry, I will talk about a bug I encountered a few months ago. I resolved it but I, so far, not had the time to share my knowledge with you. I. Description…
In the previous blog, I described How to install and manage a Kerberos Server but that’s useless if there are no clients and if no application have been kerberized! That’s why in this blog I will explain in the first part how to install a kerberos client in linux. The second part will be dedicated to the configuration of a…
In my last article, I presented the first part of setting up a new action for Alfresco Share, which is an archive action. I advise you to read the first part if you have not read it yet since it is a prerequisite for the proper functioning of the action: Developping an archive action for Alfresco Share (1 of 2). The…
