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Managing other web assets in WCM

rjewson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:14:53 GMT

Hi,Were POC'ing a site, and need to incorporate binary assets (images, flash) and css into the WCM. Various place suggest this is possible e.g.http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap#Web_Content_My question is how do you do it? The only thing I can think of is that you somehow manage the asset in th

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

mrogers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:09:22 GMT

You can handle any asset with alfresco WCM.

Perhaps you need to specify what you into what you mean by "manage"?

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

rjewson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:21:48 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. For example, a content creator can add textual information via a web form, but how would they add a set of related images with that web form, and how does that get picked up in a deployment, get versioned, sandboxed etc. At the moment I only have the choice to create web form text based content in the WCM.

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

zaizi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:36 GMT

Configure a file picker and define where / how to select assets to relate to the content being created. See: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_XForms_Widgets#FilePicker_configuration_.28Web_Forms_only.29

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

rjewson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:06 GMT

Ok, but doesnt that just give me a URI inside the xml content? Say I restrict that URI to an image file the AVM, how does that image file originally get there?

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

zaizi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:45:01 GMT

The widget lets you upload an image as well. There should be a sample article.xsd in the Alfresco installation directory. If has an image widget. Will demo what is possible.

Re: Managing other web assets in WCM

rjewson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:58:54 GMT

Many thanks - that was enough to bring various things together