Create a new SIDE Application

The application gives you the opportunity to group all the models related to the same project and configure generators and deployers according to your needs. Theses tasks must be done only once.

• Go to src/models/application directory
• Click on New and choose SIDE Application Model
• Give it the name you want, for example 'Person.application' and click on 'Finish'
• Right-click on your newly created application
• Choose SIDE/Manage Configuration

Configure Models

• In the 'Model' tab, click on 'Add'
• Select your project, go to src/models directory
• Press on Ctrl key and choose Person.dt in Data directory and Person.form in Form directory

Configure Generators

• Click on 'Generation' tab
• Adapt paths to reflect your installation (build/logs and build/generated)
• Select Clean and Offline mode

Configure Data Generators

• Click on KSR 500 (MM Storage from KerBlue)
• Click on Alfresco
• Click on Alfresco 3.x Labs
• Click on SIDE Content Model Generator for Alfresco
• In the generation parameters on the right, indicate Alfresco URL (http://localhost:8080/alfresco) for a standard Alfresco installation and 1.0 as the Class Module Version.

Configure Form Generators

• Click on KSR 400 (Form MM from KerBlue)
• Click on XForms
• Click on Chiba 1.5
• Click on SIDE Chiba Form Generator for Alfresco
• In the generation parameters on the right, indicate Chiba URL (http://localhost:8080/xforms) for a standard SIDE-Labs installation

Configure Deployers

• Click on 'Deployer' tab

Configure Alfresco Deployer

• Click on Alfresco
• Click on Alfresco Labs 3.x
• Click on SIDE Alfresco Direct Deployer
• In the deployer parameters view on the right, indicate Alfresco tomcat path
• Indicate C:\Alfresco\tomcat for a standard Alfresco installation
• Click on clean

Configure Chiba Deployer

• Click on XForms
• Click on Chiba 1.5
• Click on SIDE Chiba XForms Direct Deployer
• In the deployer parameters view on the right, indicate Chiba webapp absolute directory
• Indicate C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\xforms

Generation and/or Deployment

Activate

• Save your configuration
• Check Alfresco is stopped
• Launch generation and/or deployment

Check

• At the end of generation and/or deployment process, a report is generated in the logs directory you defined
• Open it and check there is no error
• The most common error is when you forgot to install xforms.war. Please read carefully the 2 lines SIDE installation guide :-) Look at http://www.side-labs.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation:User:QuickInstallation

Test

• Run Alfresco
• Connect to Alfresco onhttp://localhost:8080/alfrescoto be sure Alfresco is running
• To test forms, go tohttp://localhost:8080/xforms
• Click
• To test content storage, go to http://localhost:8080