Sorting users by firstName and lastName fields in Alfresco 6

Using default settings, Alfresco 6 users can’t be ordered by firstName and lastName, as this properties are not declared as identifiers by default. The following call to the RESP API is getting users ordered by firstName, lastName and userName. This invocation will produce an error similar to: If you want this feature working in your

Alfresco Share form field visibility depending on other field value

It’s not a common scenario, but sometimes user requirements include dynamic field control visibility depending on a value stored in other field from the same fieldset. Let’s imagine that we have to show a field named cm:comment only if the field named cm:title includes the sentence Including comments. Declaring the Share Form Control configuration for

Alfresco 6, restoring browser basic auth popup for remote APIs

Recently I’ve found another small and undocumented change in Alfresco 6 to be considered before upgrading. From alfresco-remote-api.6.3, web browser will not present basic auth popup by default, so operations like CMIS Browsing will not be allowed from browser. In order to restore previous behaviour, a new property has to be added to alfresco-global.properties alfresco.restApi.basicAuthScheme=true