topic Re: Correct Location for content in WCM in Alfresco Archive

Correct Location for content in WCM

steventux — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:58:01 GMT

Hi allI have a WCM Web Project primarily used for producing editorial content, reports, articles a homepage and some index pages, all very basic so far.I'd like to know where this sort of content is best placed in Alfresco. The WCM tutorial I've been following gives the Company Footer and Press Rele

Re: Correct Location for content in WCM

steventux — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:34:06 GMT

Having RTFM http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Developer_Guide#Output_Path_Patterns_.28Web_Forms_only.29 this seems to conclude that WCM content can only be created in the Web Project. I'm having problems with this as the Web Project directories are not repository spaces which means a lot of repository script functionality is redundant. Someone please put me straight about this.

So my questions are…
Are the folders in a Web Project traversable via the freemarker or XSL mechanisms described in tutorials and dev guides?
Likewise are they searchable with lucene?
If it's no to both, it seems to me the WCM Web Project mutes a lot of the CMS functionality in Alfresco?
Speak your brains.

Re: Correct Location for content in WCM

mbrevoort — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:58:13 GMT

Steve,

I've been watching for responses to your questions as I'm trying to sift through the differences between the DM content modeling and WCM and just what's what in terms of WCM.

I'm still an Alfresco newbie, for lack of a better word, but I can at least say that web projects are searchable via Lucene. I am able to search web project content in a webscript and render the results back as XML. For example:

var store = avm.lookupStore("mikepoc");
var results = store.luceneSearch("TEXT:\"articleerson\"");
var persons= new XML();
persons= <persons></persons>
for (var i=0, len=results.length; i<len; ++i){
   var str = new String(results.content);
   str = str.substr(38, str.length - 1 );   // Note: assumes UTF-8 encoding for all XML documents
   var person= new XML(str);
   persons.person= religion;
}
model.persons= persons.toXMLString();

Hopefully someone else is willing to address the other questions.

Mike

Re: Correct Location for content in WCM

steventux — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:43:14 GMT

Hey thanks for the reply, it prompted me to take another look at the web script examples and sure enough you can navigate the avm_webapp and search it using lucene.