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Alfresco UI

tsado

I'm not sure if I am posting this in the correct forum, but here goes.

I love the Alfresco product, and my company wants to use it as a replacement for FTP to distribute files to our clients. However we would like to change some of the default User Interface features. Unfortunately I can't figure out where this would be done. I assume I have to modify code somewhere, but Tomcat is VERY new to me, and as I see it, extremely hard to learn for the basic apache user.

Can anyone tell me where I would go to turn off the Shelf permanently, and change the default view to Details view?

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generichuman

tsado,

Some adjustment to the look can be done through the css used on the site. This file can be found at $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/alfresco/css/main.css.

As for changing the actual items shown in the interface, there you are talking code changes.

Hope this helps.

GenericHuman

gavinc

You can actually configure the 2 things you mention, you can turn off the shelf and set the default view to anything you want by providing a custom config file (I'm presuming you are using 1.2RC2 or later, preferably 1.2).

In $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension place a file called web-client-config-custom.xml (or if you are using the bundle you can rename web-client-config-custom.xml.sample).

In this file add the following:

<config>
   <client>
      <shelf-visible>false</shelf-visible>
   </client>
</config>

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Views">
   <views>         
         <view-defaults>
            <browse>
               <view>details</view>
            </browse>
         </view-defaults>
    </views>
</config>
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Also have a look at the web client configuration guide for more information: http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide

tsado

I am using the 1.1 release, as 1.2 was still RC when I installed. Now that 1.2 is stable, I will download it and do as you suggest. Once the Sourceforge mirrors get the files that is…

gavinc

Yeah, unfortunately, SourceForge seems to take a while to replicate across it's mirrors sometimes 😞

You could always get last night's nightly build or build from the SVN repository if you can't wait.

tsado

Finally found the 1.2 release on a sourceforge mirror in Brussels. Tried out the change you suggested and it worked great!

Thanks

gavinc

Your welcome.