Share action to copy an Alfresco link in your email client

Some time ago, we published an Alfresco addon for editing online with Libreoffice in Alfresco Share (via webdav protocol), in github. For this plugin, that works in Alfresco 4.x and 5.x versions, we need to register a protocol for using webdav url scheme (dav: or vnd.sun.star.webdav:) in our operating system. Recently, we made an update for Libreoffice 5.x in github.

 

Taking a similar aproximation, we developed another simple action for copying directly an Alfresco download URL via mailto: protocol, which is already registered in our OSes. I mean, when clicking in the corresponding action, your email client is opened with the download url for the file copied in the body of a message. Between the different download urls available, we chose http webdav url for getting some information about the paths and filenames. The github project is available here.

 

In fact, this is done in a similar way, when sharing a public url via email, but for public content.

 

This action is available in both Document Library and Document Details menus. The details menu is shown below: