How does alfresco's javascript( not webscript) mechanism

Question

When I play with alfresco share, I found it is difficult to track the UI and javascript. you can only see some class name in the HTML tags, But you are difficult to know how are they constructed, And When, where and how can these scattered HTML code can render such a fancy page.

Can someone help me ? Please offer several example and explain how they work!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Custom_Document_Library_Action This link will help

Answer 2

You should try firebug for stepping through your client side code.

Alfresco includes a bunch of files that are all pulled together on the server side to serve each "page".

I highly recommend Alfresco Developer Guide by Jeff Potts (you can buy it and view it online instantly).

• James Raddock DOOR3 Inc.