Bemeister Knowledge is the key

My name is Bert Van der Heyden and that's all there is to know.

You can find me on the web

• on Facebook
• on Linked In
• as member of MTB Team Margi
• as active Alfresco community member
• as owner of bemeister.com

I want to create a custom xforms widget for one of my Web Forms and found some useful information on the Alfresco wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Creating_XForms_Widgets). Although you can't call that info a manual.

So, I started and if you do know your way around Alfresco, you can get it done. But, off course we work with AMP packages and that's where I found 2 mayor draw-backs.

Thanks to Will Abson, we now have a Web Script which can relink wcm xml content with it's original web form and it's renditions.
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/wabson/2008/08/04/web-script-repair-web-project/

Alfresco 3 comes with a more transparent amp feature. In fact the MMT tool is still used, but there is an amps directory available and an apply_amps.bat (apply_amps.sh on linux).
And then it's easy. Just place your amp files in the amps directory and run the bat or sh file.
However: If it worked properly, I did not have to write this. It seams that the most important rule in the file does not work out-of-the-box. And that's because there is a "%2" at the end with no meaning. So you should edit the bat file and remove the "%2" after -directory in the mmt install line.

Today I installed a wiki on this drupal site using the instructions of http://cwgordon.com/how-to-create-a-wiki-with-drupal . Books, Wikitools, Freelinks and TableOfContents modules do the trick just great. My students will receive an account on bemeister.com with a "wiki user" role. That will solve the documentation issue. The tooling is ready!
I will now setup the Maven project in our project's SVN (https://forge.alfresco.com/svn/prod-select).