Alfresco Web EditorTTL – 9th April 2010

Ben Hagan

WCM Product Manager

www.alfresco.com

Agenda

● Design Requirements

● Alfresco Web Editor

● Web Editor Framework

● Component Overview

● Example Architectures● Example Architectures

● JSP Support – Tag Library

● Demo - Getting Started

● Documentation

Design Requirements

Semantic Content Editor

Presentation Content Editor

Agenda● Alfresco 3.3 – Community available NOW for download!

● Evolution of Web Studio

● Consists of:

● AWE - Spring Surf application incorporating the Alfresco Forms Engine

● WEF – Web Editor Framework

Alfresco Web Editor

● WEF – Web Editor Framework

● Edits core repository content (non AVM)

● Deployed either:

● Stand alone

● As part of your Surf application

Agenda

Web Editor Framework (WEF)

● Provides a common JS client side framework

● Renders a toolbar

● Used by Alfresco and Spring Surf

● Accessible – graceful degradation with JS and or CSS

● Based on Yahoo’s YUI● Based on Yahoo’s YUI

● Extensible, pluggable

● Drop in new components - Create custom tabs, buttons etc.

Example Architecture

AWE Tag LibraryJSP Support (AWE.jar)

Web Application

Web BrowserApplication Server

Web Editor Framework

(WEF)

Alfresco.war

AWE.war

Component Overview

Web Editor Framework

(spring-webeditor.jar)

Alfresco Web Editor

(alfresco-webeditor-plugin-3.3.jar)

CSS

JavaScript

Web Scripts

Java Beans

AWE.war

CSS

JavaScript

Web Scripts

Java Beans

JavaScript Java Beans

Forms Service

(alfresco-forms-client.jar)

AWE.war = Spring Surf

+ Forms Service

+ AWE + WEF

CSS

JavaScript

Web Scripts

Java Beans

Spring Surf

Agenda

JSP Support - Taglib

● JSP Support – tag library

● Helper, decorating the page with HTML and JavaScript

● Provides the hooks to the AWE JavaScript

● Other languages

● PHP, Freemarker etcPHP, Freemarker etc

● Documentation

● Template Developer

● Add “Edit Content” placeholders

● Available stand alone for use outside of an Alfresco environment

● Graceful Degradation - JavaScript and CSS

Agenda

JSP Support - Taglib

● startTemplate

● The startTemplate tag bootstrap's the WEF via a "script" element that executes a webscript, this tag should therefore be placed in the "head" section of your page.

● markContent

● The markContent tag indicates an editable area of the page. The tag ● The markContent tag indicates an editable area of the page. The tag renders an edit icon that when clicked displays a form for editing the corresponding Alfresco content and/or properties.

● endTemplate

● Responsible for initializing AWE with details of all the marked content areas on the page. It also renders a "script" element that executes the WEF resources webscript which starts the process of downloading all the assets required to render and display the toolbar and all configured plugins, this tag should therefore be placed just before the closing body

element.

Agenda

Getting Started

● “Customer” web application

● Demonstration

Agenda

Extensions

● Custom Tabs, buttons, controls etc

● Packaged as a single JAR file

● Sample in the Spring Surf repository

● \Spring-Surf\trunk\spring-webeditor-plugins\spring-webeditor-plugin-sample

Agenda

Thanks

● Alfresco Web Editor

● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Editor

● Web Editor Frameworkhttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Editor_Framework

● Install and Configuration Guide

● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_Edition_file_list_3.3

● Getting Started Guide

● http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/alfresco-web-editor/getting-started/