Manual Manager
Manual Manager is an add-on for Alfresco Share that adds hierarchically structured documents written using markdown syntax. The result is kind of a classic help file. Current features include:
- Topic Editor with realtime preview.
- Upload images to be used in topic using Drag and drop.
- Insert select image size (auto resize) of uploaded images.
- Insert Alfresco icons and document icons.
- Template for new topics - Add a default template to repository, Site Manager can edit to create site specific template.
- Sort topic order using drag and drop.
- Topic navigation using folder structure or by auto created links in topic display to navigate sub topics or related topics.
- Direct linking to each topic
- Move or copy current topic and all its subtopics in one action.
- Version management - including full preview of previous versions.
- Permission management of topics.
- Print current topic, and if selected all its subtopics. Prints includes metadata with dates, author and current version.
- Inline search with hit preview
- Presentation mode - Create slides of topics to be viewed online with select theme and transitions.
You can watch this introduction video to see it in action.
##Author Peter Löfgren @loftux - Loftux AB http://loftux.se - http://loftux.com - @loftuxab
Clone, build and install
There are no official releases of Manual Manager. But the source is here, so you can just clone and build yourself.
$ git clone git://github.com/loftuxab/manual-manager.git ManualManager
$ cd ManualManager
Master branch is for 4.2. If you want to target 4.0.x version of Alfresco, checkout branch 4.0 before building. Both branches has the same features.
$ git checkout 4.0
Build with
$ ant package
This will produce loftux-manual-manager.jar.
Copy this file to both
tomcat/webbapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib
tomcat/webbapps/share/WEB-INF/lib
and restart tomcat.
Once restarted, go to your site as Site Manager and select Customise Site. Add the Manual page component.
Third party components used
This add-on makes use of several external components
- Pagedown for online editor and html view rendering of markdown
- Pagedown Extra Markdown Extra Plugins for Pagedown
- reveal.js by Hakim for creating online presentations
- Markdown - the markdown syntax used.
- Alfresco - Not included here! -but you need install this add-on on top of Alfresco.
Some third party components in itself use other third party components. Check their respective site for details.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Loftux AB
Manual Manager is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Manual Manager is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details
LICENSE Third party
Third party components comes with other licenses.
- Pagedown - MIT License
- reveal.js - MIT License
- Markdown - BSD Style open source license
Licenses can be found in LICENSE folder.