April Meeting and DevCon announcement

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In our January meet-up we planned meeting to discuss Alfresco the last Friday of each January, April, July, and October.

That means that this Friday is time for another meetup. I apologize for the late notice; I'll do better planning for July (see below).

Eric Michie of the LDS Church Information and Communication Systems Department has generously offered to host our group again. We will be meeting at 11AM on April 27 at their Riverton Office. The meeting facility is excellent, but you will need to provide ID to get a guest badge. Address is:

3740 W Market Center Dr, Riverton, UT 84065

Eric will also be setting up a web cast for remote attendance, and details are at the bottom of this email.

Feel free to advertise your attendance (and get reminders for future meet-ups) at:

http://www.meetup.com/Alfresco/Salt-Lake-City-UT/590132/

Agenda:

* Introductions

* After a recent visit to the Salt Lake Family History Library, Michael McCarthy of Tribloom whipped together an Alfresco Share Genealogy add-on. It's definitely a work-in-progress, but I asked him to provide a short demo because I suspect someone in the group might want to help turn it into a real project.

He provides an overview in this blog post:
http://www.tribloom.com/blogs/michael/2012/04/05/share-genealogy

* Some members of the group requested a Q&A discussion session to bounce around architectural decisions and current problems. This is where we will spend the bulk of the meeting. We obviously can't get too much into the details of specific environments, but perhaps we can help each other and learn together. If you want a question addressed, please email it to me and I'll try to look into it a bit before the meeting.

* I want to make sure you are aware of the DevCon dates and Call for Papers. DevCon Americas 2012 will be in San Jose an November 13-15. Proposals for sessions must be submitted by May 19. Some of you can give helpful case studies and technical deep-dive presentations, and I hope to encourage you to submit your abstract.

Information is at the DevCon blog.

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/devcon/

Go ahead and enter into your calendar a reminder for the July and October meet-ups (go ahead and do it now; I'll wait). In July Tyler Cooper (who had a conflict with this week's meetup) will present about his team's Alfresco deployment. Perhaps he can use it as a dry-run for his DevCon presentation (hint-hint). We are looking for a presenter for October. Any volunteers?

If you have any questions, please reach out to me.

Richard Esplin

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A new Cisco Unified MeetingPlace conference has been scheduled.

Date/Time: Apr 27, 2012, 11:00 AM (MST7MDT)
Duration: 1 hrs 30 mins
Meeting ID: 1100
Meeting password: Not required
Meeting URL:
http://meetingplace.ldschurch.org/a/7e9b1ebf051095ad00ac15743a0cf788
Dial in Numbers: 801-240-2663 (Local/International) or 877-453-7266 (US Toll-free)

Join the meeting:

1. Go to http://meetingplace.ldschurch.org/a/7e9b1ebf051095ad00ac15743a0cf788
or http://meetingplace.ldschurch.org and enter your Meeting ID 1100 and click the "Attend Meeting" button
2. If requested, Sign in with your LDS Account or as a Guest
3. Select the desired "Connect Me" options and enter the phone number that you want MeetingPlace to call you at
4. Click the Connect button

To Attend the Conference Without Using your Computer:

1. Dial into 801-240-2663 (Local/International) or 877-453-7266 (US Toll-free)
2. Follow the prompts to enter the Meeting ID 1100 and join the meeting

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I forgot to mention that Michael is based in Colorado and will be presenting remotely. When he showed me his add-on I thought the group would be interested enough that he should present today even though he won't be in town (he might be able to attend in person in the future).

Richard

[mmcc...@tribloom.com]

* What are best practices for searching custom content model
fields and aspects?

There is some information regarding this on the FTS Query Syntax wiki
page: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full_Text_Search_Query_Syntax
The key that I mentioned during the meetup was something called "Query
Templates" which are referenced within the search web scripts. The
default template is:

%(cm:name cm:title cm:description ia:whatEvent ia:descriptionEvent lnk:title lnk:description TEXT)


It searches name, title, description, full text and a few others by
default. Adding another property would be as simple as adding
cm:propname to the template.

The repository search webscript is located in
tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\org\alfresco\slingshot\search

Excerpt from search.lib.js:
/**
* Return the fts-alfresco query template to use.
* The default searches name, title, descripton, calendar, link, full
text and tag fields.
* It is configurable via the .config.xml attached to this webscript.
*/

search.get.config.xml:
<search>
<default-query-template>%(cm:name cm:title cm:description ia:whatEvent
ia:descriptionEvent lnk:title lnk:description TEXT
TAG)</default-query-template>
</search>

So changing the default (simple) search terms is as easy as modifying
the query template in search.get.config.xml.

Also, if you are interested, please contact me directly for more
information regarding my genealogy enhancements for Alfresco and I will
keep you informed about when and where the source code will be posted.

Michael McCarthy
www.tribloom.com
phone: 719 387-4206
skype: tribloom.michael
twitter: MMcCarthy01