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Evaluating Alfresco

shravan_mahanka — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:45:46 GMT

Hi Team,We are evaluating couple of CMS tools(like: Alfresco, Jackrabbit, Drupal) and Alfresco being our most favorable tool, we would like your co-operation in this regard.We are inclined towards Alfresco being it a Open source & Java platform enabled, at the same time we see Drupal has many fe

Re: Evaluating Alfresco

mrogers — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:56:56 GMT

I'm not aware of Captcha & Banner/ Advertising Management for Alfresco.
Could you elaborate your requirement a bit more, because although I can guess what you may mean I'm not sure how it applies to typical Alfresco use cases?

There is a Alfresco forge for developing components and our new web studio interface does have an online repository of plug ins.

Re: Evaluating Alfresco

shravan_mahanka — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:28:33 GMT

Hi Rogers,

Thanks for your reply.

Captcha & Banner/ Advertising Management are just two basic features we would require in our Content Management System, being a Media Enterprise.

By querying for Captcha & Banner/ Advertising Management features, I meant to know, how can I integrate new requirements/ new features/ missing features/ new plug-ins into Alfresco system.

I was guessing that these features being very simple, those might have been already available in your repository as plug-ins.

Where can I find "web studio interface"?

Also, last day I have downloaded and installed this copy of Alfresco software - "Alfresco-Enterprise-3.0.1-Full-Setup.zip", expecting full installation of Alfresco. But after installation, I could not locate Alfresco WCM Enterprise Start menu (I have installed Typical version of Alfresco), I had just Alfresco Enterprise in my Start menu. Please let me know what am I missing?

Thanks for your support.

Thank You,
Shravan Kumar. M

Re: Evaluating Alfresco

mrogers — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:24:16 GMT

Alfresco WCM requires a little more configuration to get started.
The steps are in this document : http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/files/install_configure_alfresco_ecm3.pdf   basically you have to add a little more config to enable WCM.

Alfresco is built to be a very pluggable system.    It is architected with a huge number of extension points, not just at the UI level. For example you can plug in content transformers, content models, workflows, web scripts, ui components and the list goes on.

Web Studio is not yet part of the enerprise trial.

Re: Evaluating Alfresco

shravan_mahanka — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:34:37 GMT

Okay. Thanks for your information Rogers. I will go through this document and get back to you in case of any issues.

Can't I even have read-only access to Web Studio? Because I would like to check-out the variety of plug-in you have. We are mainly a Media Enterprise, so, I would be interested in Media related plug-ins, like I was asking for a Banner module and many more.

We have just started evaluating Alfresco, and we would like to evaluate every minute aspect, so we are happy before we move over to Alfresco.