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Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

srevill — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:12:54 GMT

Hi. We're evaluating Alfresco for use in our organisation and one thing which we currently use is Microsoft Groove. In a nutshell, this means we can have a complete copy of (or the most important subset of) our document repository stored locally on all our laptops/machines. If we're on a flight or o

Re: Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

stevereiner — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:27:35 GMT

FlexSpaces+AIR has some offlining capability:

Tools/Make Available Offline menu: will offline files with multiple selection supported after a confirm prompt
1.local parent folders with the same names as repository parent folders along with copies of the files will be created in the users documents/my documents folder (example on a vista in c:/Users/<username>/Documents/FlexSpaces/Company Home/…./ filename1, filename2, etc. (also supports offlining wcm files into Documents/FlexSpaces/AVM/)
2. currently not deep in one use of this menu (selected folders will be recreated not their contents)

Tools / Offline Upload menu: (single select) will update selected file from the offline area after a confirm prompt
(having sync command menu to make this a less manual process could be added in the future)

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=14382
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Re: Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

stevereiner — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:18:08 GMT

Thinking about this more:
You might also be able to use Groove with Alfresco CIFS since it makes Alfresco seem like part of the file system

Re: Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

srevill — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:12:29 GMT

(CIFS) I initially thought the same thing but Groove says "The folder cannot be synchronized because it resides on a remote drive".

So would I be right in thinking there's no simple way to keep local copies of a directory structure to work on offline and sync only the files that have changed into an Alfresco shared drive?

Perhaps a bog-standard OSS sync tool might do the job - if anyone knows of a good 'un I could test?

Off for more googling…

Re: Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

srevill — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:36:30 GMT

Following up my own post, maybe the answer is to have a local copy of the whole directory structure, forget about Groove and use a tool such as Synchromat to keep the stuff in the Alfresco CIFS shared drive in sync with the local copy.

Hmmm. RTFM - the Alfresco help does say you can use something such as Microsoft Briefcase to keep the contents of the Alfresco shared drive in sync. :idea:

Re: Microsoft Groove with Alfresco

jvveen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:32:26 GMT

Would that bypass all typical ECM functions of Alfresco like versioning, check-out/check-in etc?

Because that could cause some interesting conflicts when collaboration on the same folder with a larger group of colleagues.