I was really pleased by the feedback I got when I first talked about Share Extras at Alfresco’s Sales Kick-off in Orlando earlier this year, when I showed a few of the initial add-ons.
Since then, the list has grown significantly, but I was especially pleased when Peter joined the project and contributed his Google Site News Dashlet and CKEditor Form Control add-ons for Share. For me it marked the point where the project became more than the list of ideas that had been in my head.
Now as of last week two contributors have become four, with the addition of two great add-ons from Florian Maul and Romain Guinot. I’m really excited about these both.
Florian’s JavaScript Console add-on is an essential tool for developers building extensions for Alfresco, and complements my port of Dave Caruana’s original Node Browser. Like the Execute Script action, it also provides a useful tool for administrators who want to run one-off scripts against the Alfresco repository.

Romain’s Sample Audit Dashlet shows how different types of Audit information can be displayed in Share. This is a great addition since it shows how auditing can be used outside of the DOD Records Management module, to track specific events within the repository. Even custom audit applications are supported.

Not only do these new add-ons take the total number to almost 25, they also extend the number of languages supported in Share Extras, by providing examples in French and German, in addition to the English and Swedish examples added by myself and Peter.
Lastly, I’ve made a few significant improvements to the Site Poll Dashlet last week, which I couldn’t have done without the help of several others. So thanks to Toni de la Fuente for helping me to debug and fix a couple of previously unreproducible (at least for me) issues with the repository web scripts, to Jeff Potts for his suggestion to update the site activity feed when someone votes, and to Ed Mannion for reporting an obvious issue with using Date.now() on non-Mozilla browsers.
If you want to help contribute to Share Extras, you can do so in several ways. Of course new add-ons are always welcome but ideas, bug reports/fixes and translations are equally valid ways of helping out. More information is available on the Contribution Process page.