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title: "Alfresco JavaScript Console · Appnovation"
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description: "How to use the Alfresco JavaScript Console to run custom scripts against the repository, with features like code completion and run-as-user."
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# Alfresco JavaScript Console

[![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/e97c2753023ea4f5c82f300813837655ec798fe7-68x68.jpg?w=68&auto=format) paladro paladro Alfresco Developer](/people/paladro-paladro.md) Oct 14, 2014  
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![Alfresco JavaScript Console](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/2a0d4b9a23a2b8e31e63d7251c948a0304d5041a-1400x400.jpg?w=1400&auto=format) 

Today I want to talk about one of the most useful tool for [Alfresco developers](/services/technology-platform-development.md): the Javascript console. This add-on is a Share administration console component to execute custom Javascript code against the Alfresco repository. You can download it [here (opens in new window)](https://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/JavascriptConsole).

Some features:

*   Run scripts with different users
*   Integrate custom JavaScript functions
*   Code completion via CTRL + SPACE
*   Save & load scripts from Data Dictionary

Here are some useful script examples that could be necessary in some projects:

**Users information**: retrieves the information of all the users in the repository

var users = people.getPeople(null); for each(user in users){  user = search.findNode(user); print(user.properties.userName+": " + user.properties.firstName+ " " + user.properties.lastName + "("+user.properties.email+")");}

**Permissions report**: recursive function to get all the permissions for a folder and its children

recurse(companyhome, function(node) { for each(permission in node.fullPermissions) { if (/;DIRECT$/.test(permission)) { logger.log(node.displayPath + "/"+ node.name + ";" + permission); } }});

[![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/e97c2753023ea4f5c82f300813837655ec798fe7-68x68.jpg?w=68&auto=format) paladro paladro Alfresco Developer · Appnovation](/people/paladro-paladro.md) 

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