Web Client Customisation Guide

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Web Client CustomizationWeb ClientBack to Developer Guide or Server Administration Guide

Introduction

Alfresco provides a number of ways of customizing the Alfresco Web Client, both by simple configuration, or more programmatic extension.  The configuration extension describes the basic approach to changing the default configurations. 

The Web Client supports configurable menu actions that appear in the UI, as well as an extensible Dialog And Wizard Framework.  As with most customizations of Alfresco, there is a way of Packaging And Deploying Extensions.

There are several examples below showing how some common customisations can be applied to the web client.

Simple Customizations

• Add a Language to the Login Page
  
• Adding Custom Icons
  
• Mandatory Properties Behaviour
  
• Add a Transformation Mimetype
  
• Changing the From Email Address
  
• Change Sort Direction in Topic View
  
• Adding Custom Menu Items
  
• Change Size Of Text Fields
  
• Using a TextArea
  
• Changing Year Ranges
  
• Resetting Date Picker Behaviour
  
• Adding Custom Aspects to the Create Rule and Run Action Wizards
  
• Changing the Default View in Web Client
  
• Changing the default Sidebar component from the Navigator Tree to the Shelf
  
• Allow Guest User to modify the start location
  
• Adding additional attributes to the Simple Search query
  
• Changing Breadcrumb Mode
  

More Advanced Customisations

• Displaying Custom Metadata
  
• Customising Advanced Search
  
• Adding a Custom Dialog (SDK CustomDialog)
  
• Adding Custom I18N Strings
  
• Customising An Alfresco JSP (SDK CustomJSP)
  
  • Customising The Create Rule and Run Action Wizards (SDK TaggingSample)
    
• Adding an Editor Guide
  
• Customising The Create Content Wizard (SDK CustomWizard)
  
• Customising The Login Page (SDK CustomLogin)
  
• Type Based Configured Action Groups