Aikau 1.0.85 – Data Lists
I was asked after I published my last blog post (on the progress being made with the FormsRuntimeService in Aikau) whether or not the example Data Lists page I showed would be available in the next...
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In my last post I described some work I’d done to provide a service within Aikau to support the XML based forms runtime in Share. In this post I attached a video demonstrating a page where the service...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.76 – Form Runtime Support
One of the comments I had on my last blog post point out that one of the main problems with using Aikau is that it doesn’t support the XML-based Forms Runtime that Share uses to render forms using the...
View ArticleImproving Aikau Education
Introduction In my last blog post I talked about the perspective I’d gained by working in another team at Alfresco that has been using Aikau. For the last 18 months the Aikau team has been so head down...
View ArticleDeveloping With Aikau – Another Perspective
I’ve recently been moved out of the Aikau team in order to provide some assistance to a feature team that are using Aikau. This change in role has given me a very useful insight into the problems that...
View ArticleAdding the Aikau Document Library as a Site Page in Share
Introduction In previous blog posts I’ve shown examples of how the Aikau version of the Document Library can be used both within Share and in standalone clients. In this blog post I thought it might be...
View ArticleMaterial Designed Aikau
Introduction It was recently announced at BeeCon 2016 that Alfresco would be adopting Angular 2 and Google Material Design for all future applications that it develops (but that Aikau would continue to...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.66 – Angular 2 Integration
Introduction One of the greatest misconceptions about Aikau is that it is somehow aiming to compete with other UI frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React. This really isn’t the case – Aikau...
View ArticleAikau 101
Introduction A complaint that we have heard on occasion is that it is hard to find and hire people with Aikau skills. It’s probably not unexpected that there are few people with a lot of experience in...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.63 – Support for versioned library imports
Introduction This blog post describes how you can now safely import Aikau library files into WebScript controllers when you have multiple versions of Aikau available in your application. PLEASE NOTE:...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.57 – Improving 3rd Party Testing
Background The Aikau team is committed to providing weekly backwards compatible releases. It is important to understand that whilst we guarantee that all configuration options for a widget will be...
View ArticleIntroducing the Aikau Sandpit
Aikau development continues rapidly with new releases each week. One of the challenges we have is in providing suitable education for getting up-to-speed with what widgets are currently available. We...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.39 – Dynamic Form Field Option Updates
Amongst all the bug fixes and features added since my last post, in the 1.0.39 release of Aikau we’ve added a useful addition to our forms capabilities that I thought would be worth calling out. It’s...
View ArticleAikau 1.0.34 – Form Control Rule Evaluation Updates
Introduction In my last blog post I said that I would try and provide more frequent updates on Aikau. Just over a week has passed since then and we’ve released version 1.0.34 at the end of Sprint 34....
View ArticleAikau Update August 2015
Introduction It’s been a few months since my last update on Aikau so I thought it would be useful to provide some information on what we’ve been up to recently. I had hoped that we’d be able to make...
View ArticleShare Header Colour Customization
by Dave Draper Introduction Alfresco Share has supported themes in general for some time, but it is more challenging to customize the colours used in the Share header bar. We’ve made some updates in...
View ArticleAikau Update, May 2015
by Dave Draper Introduction I’ve been pretty quiet with blogs and social media of late so I thought I’d provide a bit of an insight into what’s been going on with the Aikau UI framework. Processes On...
View ArticleAdding Views to Filtered Search
by Dave Draper Introduction One of the Alfresco Solutions Engineers recently contacted me to ask how easy it would be to add a table view into the new filtered search page in Alfresco 5.0. Fortunately...
View ArticleWhy Alfresco 5.0.d will be a game changer for UI development
by Dave Draper Introduction It was recently announced that Alfresco 5.0.d has been released. There is lots of great stuff in this release for the Alfresco Community to enjoy – but the thing that I’m...
View Article“Eddie would go”
by Dave Draper Today we released version 1.0.6 of Aikau and would really like to get some feedback on what we’ve done so far. If you tuned into Tech Talk Live 83 then you’ll know that we’ve been busy...
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