topic Re: sandbox changelists in Alfresco Archive

sandbox changelists

evan_kairuz — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:35:35 GMT

Currently Alfresco allows one sandbox per project per user.Is there in the near future going to be a solution in Alfresco WCM where instead of having just 1 sandbox per project per user, there would be some kind of changelist functionality.I require some something similar to having multiple sandboxe

Re: sandbox changelists

mrogers — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:28:23 GMT

In the medium term for Project Swift there are plans for "work packages" which are sort of what you require.

But if you want to use AVM then the model is one sandbox per user per web project. An easy work-around would be to have muliple accounts for each user.

Re: sandbox changelists

evan_kairuz — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:08:13 GMT

Thanks for the response…

I did consider that as a workaround where id give the fe users access to create new accounts for seperate sandboxes which could be used as changelists…
However this isnt really an option because on of the requirements was single sign-on which we met using the kerberos authentication with ad.

I hope in the future changelist functionality is included. While Alfresco is seen as a CMS is obviously has versioning capabilities so hopefully one day changelists will be included in those capabilities.

Thanks again for the prompt response.

Evan

Re: sandbox changelists

evan_kairuz — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:31:51 GMT

One further question.

I was thinking of trying to hack up a solution where I would create stores which would act as versions of another store and used as a changelist.
Messy but potentially could work.

The problem I am having is when I use the AVM api to create a store how do I get the store to show up in CIFS? (our users would like to use CIFS to edit website source files directly on the repository)

Evan

Re: sandbox changelists

mrogers — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:42:53 GMT

If you want to resort to coding it yourself then I'm sure its not too much work to create multiple author sandboxes as per your requirements. There was a re-factoring in 3.1 that makes the sandbox creation trivial. The only thing you will need to tease out are the permissions for your new sandbox. You may even find TODO statements pointing the way in the code …

One of the bigger pieces of work with implementing multiple author sandboxes would be to allow Alfresco Explorer to switch between the different sandbox context because its currently only expecting one author sandbox, however if you are working through CIFS then that does not matter.