topic Re: WCM how to start in Alfresco Archive

WCM how to start

bragosso — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:51:11 GMT

Helloi downloaded and installed the 3.0 release, with WCMI tried to use it, with some problemI tried to find something like a tutorial and I found it in http://www.packtpub.com/article/obtaining-alfresco-web-content-management-wcm, but it is not enoughSomeone of you can help me sending a link where

Re: WCM how to start

scottf — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:07:20 GMT

Hi,
I am new to this too, but the tutorial I found very helpful can be viewed at: http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/alfresco/WCM2_1-Product-Evaluation-Guide.pdf

I know it says for for WCM 2.1 but I followed the entire tutorial on version 3 and it worked great.

Hope it helps.

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:56:43 GMT

Hi, as of today i am doing the same tutorial but i encountered a problem. At section "Creating New Web Content: Press Releases" i get a org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMNotFoundException: Store not found. error. My alfresco server is up and running but when i try to run the virtual server nothing happens. Is this my problem? Any ideas on what to do?

With regards
Simon

Re: WCM how to start

mewert — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:03:56 GMT

Hi,

the same for me. Tried the WCM guide and had the same problem with the current AlfrescoLabs release.

Today I tried to compile AlfrescoLabs obtained from https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/ with "ant build-tomcat", because this posting suggests a patch for the problem: http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=16524

I succeeded in getting a functioning alfresco installation, but the "Data Dictionary/Web Forms" category is missing, it seems that the WCM module where not correctly build/deployd.

Has anybody an idea, how to get "Web Forms" with the AlfrescoLabs sources? I also tried to drop a "studio.war" to tomcat/webapps and wcm-bootstrap-context.xml where deployed to tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/, but nothing helped.

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:21:21 GMT

Hello again,

I uninstalled my previous Alfresco installation (Alfresco-Labs-3c-OOo-Setup(2).exe) and installed Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-OOo-Setup.exe. Nothing happend, i still get the same message and it is impossible to preview my site as i keep getting the "User:admin Warn [web.config.ClientConfigElement] Virtualization Server Not Started - reverting to default port: 8180". The attempts to go live also fail as even if i get a succesfull launch message i dont get a URL of my site. Is the tutorial old or my setup is wrong?

With Regars
Simon

Re: WCM how to start

mewert — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:27:13 GMT

Hi,

did you start the virtual server (virtual_start.bat)? That should solve at least your problem with the website preview. The other problem is solved when using the enterprise edition, but I didn't succeed in using the "press release" example with the Labs version, yet.

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:12:30 GMT

Hi and thanks for your response,

That is my problem from the beggining, when i doubleclick the virtual_start.bat or try to start the virtual server from the menu the dosprompt pops open for a second and then closes. The alfresco server on the other hand works fine. Something must be wrong with my installation but i am new at this and i dont know where to look. Do you mean to say that by installing the same alfresco package as myself you can preview your website? If not what did you download and install?

With regards
Simon

Re: WCM how to start

viking — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:22:01 GMT

Hi and thanks for your response,

That is my problem from the beggining, when i doubleclick the virtual_start.bat or try to start the virtual server from the menu the dosprompt pops open for a second and then closes. The alfresco server on the other hand works fine. Something must be wrong with my installation but i am new at this and i dont know where to look. Do you mean to say that by installing the same alfresco package as myself you can preview your website? If not what did you download and install?

With regards
Simon

Try to set JAVA_HOME system variable. For me it works fine.
Enjoy!

Re: WCM how to start

mewert — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:31:46 GMT

Hi and thanks for your response,

That is my problem from the beggining, when i doubleclick the virtual_start.bat or try to start the virtual server from the menu the dosprompt pops open for a second and then closes. The alfresco server on the other hand works fine. Something must be wrong with my installation but i am new at this and i dont know where to look. Do you mean to say that by installing the same alfresco package as myself you can preview your website? If not what did you download and install?

With regards
Simon

Hi,

I meant the "org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMNotFoundException: Store not found." error. I got rid off it with the Enterprise Edition of Alfresco. The virtual server should be working fine for both Editions. You don't have to install it twice. Perhaps it's just a wrong set environment variable like "viking" suggested.

Re: WCM how to start

mewert — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:43:08 GMT

Ok, now I was able to create a "Press release" from the WCM tutorial with the Labs Edition.

Like described in the Wiki I checked out the sources and executed "ant -f build.xml". Afterwards I tried the "ant-f continuous.xml distribute" command, which ran into errors. The directory ALF-BINARIES with artifacts like the tomcat and .bat files is missing.

I tried to create it by myself, but gave up after a while. 😉

Now I tried to search for the "alfresco.war" in my previously build source tree and copied it into the original Labs directory (tomcat/webapps). Before that I deleted the directory "tomcat/webapps/alfresco", just in case.

And afterwards everything where fine, the formular for the press release was popping up, instead of the execpetion message. 🙂

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:04:22 GMT

Thanks al lot, it was the Java home after all. I can preview the site just fine now.

Regards
Simon

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:24:13 GMT

Hi mewert,

To which Wiki page you are refering in your post? And did the instructions there help or the actions you took later solved the problem? Can you please guide me through this?

edit: I have Alfresco Labs 3Stable 3.1 running on Windows XP with the default setup

With regards Simon

Re: WCM how to start

mewert — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:32:50 GMT

Hi,

here is the information about how to build AlfrescoLabs by yourself: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Source_Code

I didn't succeed in executing "ant -f continous.xml distribute", but the previous "ant -f build.xml" do create the alfresco.war, which has to be copied in an already installed AlfrescoLabs instance. Than the error with the org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMNotFoundException exception is gone.

Re: WCM how to start

lirux — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:28:04 GMT

After recompiling the "Store not found" has gone.
The cvs revision is 12988/89 (30/01/2009):

Merged V3.1 to HEAD
12988: Fix for ETHREEOH-1238: Cannot use Jsp:include feature in XSD - 'Store not found' exception
12986: Merged V3.0 to V3.1
12980: Merged V2.2 to V3.0
12726: Fix for ETWOTWO-950: Forms with list control does not work in IE (6 & 7)

Alberto

See also http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=16524&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:37:52 GMT

Hi to all,

I checked out all the source code in an eclipse installation, right clicked on build.xml and selected ant build. After a few seconds i got a BUILD FAILED with the following explenation

C:\workspace\alfresco\projects.xml:25: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\workspace\alfresco\macros.xml:27: Error running javac.exe compiler

the code at the line is excludes="@{compileExcludes}". Anybody with the same problem?

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:35:22 GMT

Hi again,

After failling miserably with eclipse i did the following:

I checked out the source code and with my trusted netbeans i sellected open->file->build.xml.

I had some warnings about depricated stuff but the built was successfull, i took the alfresco.war and pasted it over the old one. I also deleted the alfresco folder in the webapp folder of the tomcat. Finally i restarted the latter.

When i tried to finish the tutorial and selected to fill the Press release, the form appeared just fine but when i filled in the content and pressed next i got the following error messages:\

Please correct the errors below then click Finish.

* Error generating rendition using press-release-plain-text.ftl: freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMNotFoundException: /www/avm_webapps/ROOT/media/releases/content/InterDoc has no content.
* Error generating rendition using press-release.xsl: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.NullPointerException

Anybody with the same problem?

Re: WCM how to start

simon32 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:51:08 GMT

Hello again,

After the problem i had yesterday i followed a different approach, i only copied the alfresco-web-client.jar and everything seemed to work fine. I created the html pages and was able to preview them. But then most of the buttons in the alfresco application seemed to go out of order, for example i pressed a "Ok" button after creating a web form an got the message

javax.faces.FacesException: Error calling action method of component with id dialog:finish-button
caused by:
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{DialogManager.finish}
caused by:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.alfresco.wcm.sandbox.SandboxService.submitListAssets(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/List;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/util/Date;ZZ)V

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javax.faces.FacesException: Error calling action method of component with id dialog:finish-button 
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:72) 
at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:109) 
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastForPhase(UIViewRoot.java:97) 
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:171) 
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:32) 
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:95) 
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:70) 
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:139) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) 
at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:81) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) 
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) 
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286) 
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845) 
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) 
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) 
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) 
Caused by: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{DialogManager.finish} 
at org.apache.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:156) 
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:61) 
… 22 more 
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.alfresco.wcm.sandbox.SandboxService.submitListAssets(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/List;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/util/Date;ZZ)V 
at org.alfresco.web.bean.wcm.SubmitDialog.finish(SubmitDialog.java:354) 
at org.alfresco.web.bean.dialog.DialogManager.finish(DialogManager.java:534) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) 
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 
at org.apache.myfaces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:132) 
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Also no other button in the web projects window works with similar messages. What could be wrong?