Author: Will Abson
This project defines a custom dashlet that displays recent LinkedIn messages associated with the current user’s account.
The dashlet requires Alfresco 4.0 or greater, plus the Share OAuth add-on, version 2.2 or greater.
The dashlet is packaged as a single JAR file for easy installation into Alfresco Share.
To install the dashlet, simply drop the linkedin-dashlet-<version>.jar file into the tomcat/shared/lib folder within your Alfresco installation, and restart the application server. You might need to create this folder if it does not already exist.
The dashlet also requires the Share OAuth extension, version 2.2 or greater - see Installation for installation instructions.
An Ant build script is provided to build a JAR file containing the custom files, which can then be installed into the tomcat/shared/lib folder of your Alfresco installation.
To build the JAR file, run Ant from the base project directory.
ant dist-jar
The command should build a JAR file named linkedin-dashlet-<version>.jar in the build/dist’ directory within your project.
To deploy the dashlet files into a local Tomcat instance for testing, you can use the hotcopy-tomcat-jar task. You will need to set the tomcat.home property in Ant.
ant -Dtomcat.home=C:/Alfresco/tomcat hotcopy-tomcat-jar
Once you have deployed the JAR file you will need to restart Tomcat so that the additional resources are picked up.
