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Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

lintonb — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:53:27 GMT

Hi,I have uploaded a presentation file showing sketches (wires) of our ideas for the Alfresco 3.0 (SPK) User Interface here:http://www.slideshare.net/lintonb/alfresco-30-spk-ui-wires-core/This is a 'core' set and we will be developing these further over the next few days to show more of the new feat

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

dmatejka — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:44 GMT

hi,
looks great.. Im not talking about design, but about the expected funcionality I see there.. :wink:

Hope we can test it pretty soon.. :wink: (roadmap for 2008 was deleted from wiki.. are there any changes? when we can expect 3.0 Community? - or should I ask. can we expect 3.0 community or only Enterprise release?)

looking forward for any news..

Daniel

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

paulhh — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:09:40 GMT

Hey - we always put the new stuff in the Community first!

We're finalising our plans around releases for the year, but will communicate that soon.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

lintonb — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:18:02 GMT

Hi,

We are building a lo-fi prototype to help us test key flows and interactions. I will let everyone know when they can get hold of this.

The roadmap should be available again soon which should hopefully answer your other questions.

Cheers,
Linton

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

mabayona — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:00:49 GMT

Yeeap, I like what I see: more in the direction of a cooperation environment for "knowledge workers" centered around the idea of a "project" that can be configured with the contents/components (wiki, forum, …) required for the task and people invited to coperate in the "project". I also like the tabbed approach to joint different views in a single screen (a la firefox).

A coupe of comments (maybe for 3.1? )

- think in the posibility of letting the user arrange the different "portlets" of content using drag and drop a la liferay (a little javascript should do the trick)
- Include the capability of easy edition of content with a wiki-like syntax (poors-man mashups) with links to content and maybe other windows. In my experience this is a very efficient way of arranging and creating content ad-hoc for a project

Looking forward to put my dirty hands on 3.0….

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

dmatejka — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:29:03 GMT

Hi Paul,
I'm really sorry that you take it so offensively.. I did not mean it that way..
I am really a fun of alfresco and all the community stuff you have created… really appreciate the work you are doing.. you have all my respect ..

It was just a rumor, at some other forum, topic about the roadmap and expected community releases… (as you have been always writing also the number of the community release into the roadmap and suddenly there was 3.0 only as Enterprise release)… and nobody answered.. so .. that was only the question to make things sure…

Best regards,

Daniel

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

dmatejka — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:04:14 GMT

hi,
have a question .. Do I have the right feeling that you are "mixing" DM and WCM into one conplex solution where all projects are actually sites? … or is this presentation only about WCM? BTW what does SPK means? :roll:

One more thing I want to make sure.. In 3.0 there are going to be tools tak can be used inside of each site (wiki, blog, calendar, .. ) and, moreover, everybody is going to have his own tools (e.g. own wiki and blog with social commputing features)?? Or am I completelly wrong in my assumptions?

Best regards,

Daniel

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

rivarola — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:18:24 GMT

Hi,

Moving the user interface to a webscript base seems a good idea to have a light, fast and sexy UI. The first screenshots look good.
But from a developer point of view, can we expect frameworks like you did with the dialogs, wizards, property sheets, selectors, navigation or converters in the JSF world ?
So far the webscripts have been a very good tool to develop Alfresco browsers/viewers but we had to write specific (and often non reusable) code for contribution forms. Will ease of development (and redeployment over customized environment) will be a key point of the new client ?

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

lintonb — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:40:30 GMT

Hi,

A coupe of comments (maybe for 3.1? )

- think in the posibility of letting the user arrange the different "portlets" of content using drag and drop a la liferay (a little javascript should do the trick)
- Include the capability of easy edition of content with a wiki-like syntax (poors-man mashups) with links to content and maybe other windows. In my experience this is a very efficient way of arranging and creating content ad-hoc for a project

Our UI engineers are working on drag and drop prototypes now - hopefully we will be able to offer this to users as one way they could arrange the components on the page.

Poor-man's mashup sounds interesting, i'll give this some more thought…

Thanks!
Linton

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

lintonb — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:03:49 GMT

Hi,

hi,
have a question .. Do I have the right feeling that you are "mixing" DM and WCM into one conplex solution where all projects are actually sites? … or is this presentation only about WCM?

The focus on the first release is DM with one WCM tool. A 'site' is a place where people can collaborate using 'tools' (components) such as doc libs, wikis, blogs, forums, to-do lists etc.

One more thing I want to make sure.. In 3.0 there are going to be tools tak can be used inside of each site (wiki, blog, calendar, .. ) and, moreover, everybody is going to have his own tools (e.g. own wiki and blog with social commputing features)?? Or am I completelly wrong in my assumptions?

I hope the above answers the first question?
Each user will have their own personal site that can have the social computing tools you mention.

Cheers,
Linton

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

dmatejka — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:50:06 GMT

Hi Linton,
thank you a lot for your answers. That's what I was hoping for… really looking forward to see 3.x in action :wink: … hope it is giong to be soon… (?)

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

mabayona — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:08:23 GMT

Hi,

what about a new feature that is very much demanded:

- let the user modify the columns that are shown in main window of the web client: show a list of the possible fields and let the user arrange them (as available in the strandard windows explorer).

- let the user save the arrangement (as user preferences)

- include in the list the custom types variables

- let the columns arrangement be type dependent (i.e. for specialised cm:folder subtypes)

I know, I know, it is a long list, but it would be so nice… and usefull!

Re: Alfresco 3.0 User Interface

rscheele — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:45:17 GMT

Also, showing defined assocations between documents could be better. For example, when you define a custom association in a custom aspect can only be viewed or edited on the properties page. This is just too much work and isn't adding much value.

It would be nice to let end users define instant relationships between documents