Alfresco Blogs

As we approach the final stages of development for 3.3 functionality, I thought it would be useful to write a brief introduction to the AWE to help people get started. Please note that this article describes features currently found in HEAD, and are subject to change. The Alfresco Web Editor (AWE) is a Spring Surf based web application that utilises the Forms Service to provide in-context editing capabilities to Alfresco repository content (non AVM). Alfresco 3.3 also introduces the Web Editor Framework (WEF), which is a client side JavaScript framework that is a dependency of the AWE. More on the WEF later. The AWE is packaged as a stand-alone WAR file so that it can be deployed to web applications that are remote to the Alfresco application server. Read more

This is part of the Search’d series.  Topics are taken from Search Engine keyword searches. This second post is coming a bit late, but it is finally here.  I’ve been getting ready for our World Wide Sales Kickoff. We will be kicking off our new fiscal year with great sessions for our worldwide group of partners. [...] Read more

Since the ability to package Share extensions was added in the HEAD codeline some weeks ago, both Kev and myself have demonstrated how you can package up dashlets in a JAR file for deployment into Share. The example we both used was my Site Tags dashlet that we showed at the Alfresco Meetups last year, but [...] Read more

I’ve always found it fascinating what people searched for to find my blog.  And more fascinating why my blog even came up in the results!  The idea occurred to me that there were actually some meaningful questions in those searches. Yes, it was like one of those Windows 7 epiphanies.  I’m going to start a new weekly [...] Read more

Since Alfresco 3.2 introduced the ability to configure the metadata forms used in the Document Library, there have been several good articles published on how to add support for custom document types. One of the first questions people often ask when they see Share is how they can easily extend the metadata fields that are stored [...] Read more

One of the new features included in Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2r (released 16th February 2010) is the ability for Alfresco Share to browse the Alfresco Repository (repo). I have run a number of webinars recently and have demonstrated this new feature. This has resulted in a couple of questions about how to enable this feature [...] Read more

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Watch this webinar with Paul Hampton and learn more about how simple administration is in the Alfresco Enterprise edition.  Paul introduces us to the subsystems and talks about storage policies and managing content growth with rules. Apologies for the 3 minute silence 30 minutes in, as the presenter gets bumped off the session and has to [...] Read more

Two months without a post, and I come back again with Maven and Alfresco? Well, no news as the Maven Alfresco Community keeps growing.. So following the exciting news on Spring Surf and Share announced by Kev on trunk, for which since Alfresco 3.3 (now in trunk) we can now build Alfresco Share Extensions as plain old JARs, I decided to complete the Maven [...] Read more

Take a look at this webcast with the Blue Fish Development Group to see how easy web content management really is with Alfresco Share 3.2.  Blue Fish have over 11 years experience of WCM and appreciate that organisations need different things from their CMS.  Traditional websites need a CMS that is aimed at the business user [...] Read more

Fellow Optaros colleague, Chris Fuller, and I want to present on the Alfresco-Drupal integration at Drupalcon in San Francisco (April 19-21). If you’re interested in Alfresco, Drupal, and CMIS (any or all of the above), please vote for our session. Read more

I’d like to be among the first to congratulate Matt Asay on his appointment as COO at Canonical.  This is a well-deserved and terrific career opportunity for Matt and a reflection of his extensive open source influence, experience and breadth of business management skills. In his role leading sales and business development for Alfresco in the [...] Read more

We will have our bi-weekly Alfresco Tech Talk Live @ 12pm EST, Friday February 5th, 2010. Frevvo SPEAKER BIO Yuri de Wit is a co-founder of frevvo, based in Connecticut, USA. He has over 15 year’s expertise in software architecture and development for commercial products using Web- and Java-based technologies. Prior to frevvo he was an architect at [...] Read more

In case you missed them, here are the slides from the Alfresco WCM roadmap webinar presented on Feb 2nd. WCM Roadmap Versions 3 3 And 4 0 View more presentations from Alfresco Software. Read more

This quick tutorial shows how much easier it is to package up custom extensions to Alfresco Share in version 3.3. The features for handling the new single package deployment and simpler more compact configuration are part of the SpringSurf web framework recently contributed to SpringSource by Alfresco engineering. Background In versions of Alfresco Share previous to 3.3, developing and [...] Read more

I hope you all had a relaxing holiday season and are now looking forward to 2010.  As you can tell from my blog I certainly did and thanks to all of you for your positive comments. While I was enjoying myself, and renewing my energy for another roller coaster ride at Alfresco, the team was busy [...] Read more

First of all, it's my pleasure to recognize Alfresco's 5th birthday. In January 2005, a group of eleven of us started on a fantastic journey from a familiar world, Enterprise Content Management, into an unfamiliar one, Open Source. During this... Read more

This is a series of tutorial video’s that were recorded for the Alfresco Cloud trial. The video’s guide the viewer through the features of Alfresco Share. Based on a fictitious company ‘Green Energy’, the video’s cover the following: Introduction to the Alfresco Cloud trial Alfresco Dashboards Project based dashboards User based dashboards Extended User Profiles Project Library Browsing a project library Project document [...] Read more

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This series of videos show various aspects of the Alfresco Records Management Solution. All of these were recorded using the Alfresco Community Edition. The supported Alfresco Enterprise Edition will be available in February 2010. Introduction to Alfresco Records Management This video introduces the Alfresco Records Management solution. It shows how an Alfresco Share like interface allows users [...] Read more

This year at Lotusphere, Alfresco Software is demonstrating the technical preview of Alfresco Content Services for IBM Lotus®. The integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus social collaboration products extends to Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal. The video below shows the integration between IBM [...] Read more

Open source licensing, community and contribution are important topics. This week there were a number of interesting blog posts and tweets on the subject which might be summarized by a tweet from Matt Asay (#mjasay) @maslett moral of story? platforms flourish on permissive licensing. GPL is a capitalist’s best friend. Apache/EPL are a community’s Related [...] Read more

We are undergoing a period of “Cloud Euphoria”. Gartner has announced - Cloud Computing as number one in its “Top Strategic Technology Areas for 2010” ( http://bit.ly/G8gN90). Additionally, Forrester says – the cloud belongs on your three year roadmap and companies are ( http://bit.ly/oe7V): Repackaging workloads into VMs faster than an Amazon.com shipping manager. Standardizing like McDonalds [...] Read more

I’ve tagged and released a new version of cmislib, the Python CMIS client library. What’s cool about this release is that it is the first one known to work with more than one CMIS provider. Yea for interoperability! The beauty of CMIS, realized! Okay, it wasn’t that beautiful, it’s still “0.1″, and there are known [...] Read more

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