Alfresco Webinar Recordings

A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 2

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Join Jeff Potts, Content Management Practice Lead at Optaros,

as he shows you how to work the Alfresco content model, rules & actions.

This is part 2 of a 3-part series for Alfresco Developers.

Bob Acme: “My company has a bunch of digital assets. Ready for loading into Alfresco.  But if I stick them into the repository without tagging them properly, I’m just using Alfresco as a glorified file-system.”

You can get a lot more out of the Alfresco repository, if you start tagging content, and associating content with metadata.

Topics covered in this webcast include:

1. How do I model custom metadata?
2. What are actions?
   - Jeff explains these discrete units of work, and how they can be called from different places (UI, rules, java, javascript, or workflow steps)
3. Demo- Code review- Building actions and work flows- Building rules

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A Developer's Guide to Alfresco

In the first of a 3-part webcast series,

Jeff Potts of Optaros and ECMarchitect.com gives an extensive review

of the capabilities and architecture of

Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management system.

Topics covered in this webcast include:

1. What is Alfresco?
   Jeff reviews the APIs, file protocols, and technology standards that make Alfresco tick.

   He also addresses the types of content-centric functions Alfresco provides, and how you can use them. Document Management, Web Content Management, Records Management, and so on.

   And of course, he touches on Alfresco’s open source roots.

2. What can you do with Alfresco?
   Examples covered by Jeff include
   - Doc libraries, knowledge bases, team sites
   - Internet, Intranet, Extranet web sites
   - Custom content-centric apps
3. High-level architectural view
   – Alfresco Document Management,
   - Alfresco Web Content Management,
   - Review of an Alfresco custom front-end
4. Software demo of Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management system
   

View: “A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco (part one) – Capabilities & Architecture”, here

Like SQL for Content Management Systems

What is CMIS?

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CMIS is to Content Management Systems, what SQL is to Databases.

CMIS facilitates federated search. It further simplifies the embedding of Alfresco for OEMs.

Developers can build and test CMIS applications using Alfresco which then can be deployed on SharePoint, EMC, IBM, or OpenText.

Come and learn about the explosive possibilities of CMIS for your business.

This webcast features Laurence Hart, the lead implementer of the federated search at AIIM…

As well as Paul Hampton and Yong Qu, implementers from the Alfresco team.

“CMIS has huge momentum and will become the foundation for building a new generation of content collaboration and social computing applications,”
- said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software.

This is a huge step forward for Content Management Systems in 2009.

Demystify CMIS, and enable your organization.

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You don't have to be a mad scientist.

You don’t have to be a mad scientist to successfully install Alfresco.

Having said that, this particular webcast is best suited to technical users of Alfresco. Business users will much prefer the 5-minute GUI-based install.

Watch Richard Im, our prodigy Solutions Engineer, install Alfresco from scratch.

First, doing a custom install, and then, using the Windows installer.

The webcast includes:

• The pros and cons of using the bundle
• Custom start up options
• Configuring open office connection
• Ensuring imagemagick binaries on path
• Ensure pdf2swf
• Why we have these 3 binaries as part of Alfresco.
• Configuring Alfresco Web Content Management
• Configuring your database
• Configuring CIFS
• How to configure your ports
• How to configure Alfresco Share remotely
• Starting your evaluation of alfresco Explorer:
• Configuring your own document management scenarios using content models, aspects, rules and actions.
• Starting your evaluation of Alfresco Share:
• Creating your own team site so you can start your collaboratin’

And now, doing it all over again!

Except this time with the Windows installer.

Richard Im

This is a very hands-on webinar.

Like SQL for Content Management Systems

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Alfresco Software is the first of the leading ECM vendors to provide an implementation of the draft Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification.

This draft specification describes a common API that allows developers to write content management applications that run against all CMIS-compliant repositories.

In this webcast, you’ll learn about the draft specification,

how to start writing CMIS applications using the first available draft implementation,

and how to take part in making this specification a standard.

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Increase Operational Efficiency, and Online Revenue

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All media companies are moving their business online. The need for online revenue and online operational efficiency has never been greater.

Optaros helps leading media companies like Turner Broadcasting, Hearst Corporation, The Washington Times, and the New York Times, and IDG increase online revenue and manage complex online publishing platforms.

Optaros helps customers increase online revenue by:

• Turning content into assets
• Expanding ad-supported business models
• Enabling content syndication business models
• Enabling API-based business models

Optaros also helps customers increase online operational efficiencies, by

• Integrating Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management, Community Management, Ad Management, Application Syndication, Workflow, and Reporting Systems
• Deploying multiple sites from a common component-based, service-oriented architecture

This short presentation is packed with really meaty strategies.

Expanding on-line revenue:

• Serving content to the audience at any aggregation point…
• Updating syndication capabilities beyond standard RSS…
• Distributing not just content, but also applications, and
• Exposing digital assets and data repositories – to enable API-based business models

In terms of increasing operational efficiency, the guys at Optaros suggest you:

• Assemble key media and publishing systems into a media service architecture
• Rationalize multi-site demployments
• Serve the 3-screen experience (PC, Mobile, TV) from a common platform

Join Bob Fitzpatrick, Bryan Spaulding, and Jeff Potts of Optaros,

as they walk you through these various examples of their know-how coupled with Alfresco’s capabilities.

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ROI-Based Enterprise Content Management

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Enterprise Content Management systems have historically been viewed as an expense, a necessary evil to meet compliance standards, for example.

Rarely is ECM viewed as an opportunity to not only cut costs, but possibly to even add to the top line.

Peter Dartnell  lays out how he and his team, along with system integrator OA Solutions, tackled the  significant content management challenges that Alberta Seniors faced with its infrastructure.  All with dollars and cents in mind.

With a focus on improvement of system delivery, Alberta Seniors realized that Alfresco is a platform.  And thus, the most value could be extracted from it, even as they integrated it with other legacy systems.
This webinar is a , case study of how Alberta Seniors used Alfresco to deal with business challenges in our environment.  The examples Peter will cover include:

1 > Education Property Tax program

• Lots of manual data collected from seniors in the province every year.
• We were already imaging them, but we needed to set up a workflow. Alfresco was a solution.

2> Major challenge with our workforce retiring, and walking out of the door with all that knowledge.

• We built a Knowledge Management application on top of Alfresco.
• The user doesn’t know we’re using Alfresco.
  But we’re using lifecycle, web scripts… it’s all Alfresco.

Also:

• Hear about the importance and value of Alfresco being built on a REST architecture.
• Find out why mapping to a drive letter helps change management
• Get Peter’s take on how much focus should be on Records Management versus Document and Web Content Management.

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Jim Robson, Architect at Rothbury Software, led a packed house in a demonstration of what you can do with Adobe Flex and an Alfresco repository.

It was a detailed, step-by-step walk through.

Jim built a simple Flex application, using custom components and leveraging the Flex event framework.

He then integrated it with his Alfresco repository.

All in an hour.

For those who missed the show, we have it recorded.

Create RESTful Alfresco APIs

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Alfresco Web scripts enable you to open up Alfresco, and make it accessible to other tools and applications.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Provide the Alfresco repository with content services that are accessible from anywhere
  
• Query the repository, extract content, and alter the repository behavior
• Expose the repository for document management and web content management
• Provide customized search facilities
• You can even have dynamically delivered content that is managed by Alfresco’s Web Content Management functionality.

Join Richard Im in this webcast, in which Alfresco is used to create an API that is RESTful, allowing for scalable and cross-platform data and content exchange.

Oh, and without the need for any Java, .NET, or specialized programming skills.

• Learn when and why to use WebScripts (over other Alfresco APIs).
• Examine the top 3 Alfresco Developer Challenge Web Script entries.

Agenda:

• What is a Web Script?
• Common uses of Web Scripts
• Create a Web Script for UI components
• Create a Web Script for data retrieval
• In-depth sample

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