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Generell Question from a newbie

artd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:47:45 GMT

Hi allI have a really generell question about Alfresco. Are the following functions possible:1. Publish content2. Secure areas for private / confidential docs3. Feedback mechanism, comments etc.4. All docs today are in Word. Once uploaded, is it possible to maintain all conte

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

norgan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:49:17 GMT

Hello art,
you obvioulsy did not spent much time on http://www.alfresco.com to check out the product descriptions. Maybe you should go there just to be on the safe side. it sounds like you are looking for a specific enterprise use of Alfresco, so the sales team is a good point to turn to.

Three remarks to your list :
* The Alfresco.com Site is driven from Alfresco, but even so, Alfresco is no true WCMS system - but quite capable, compared to some others I know.
* Alfresco is no metasearch engine, but provides fulltext- and metadata search for the content stored there. An opensearch interface is provided as well.
* Test a Word->HTML conversion using an open office installation (open *.doc and saveAs *.html). If you like the result, you will probably like what ALfresco can do, too. (Alfresco uses OpenOffice in the background).

Norgan

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

artd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:06:23 GMT

Hi Norgan

Thank you for your quick answer. Sorry for my stupid questions. In the meantime I installed alfresco community edition. Now I didn't understand "online editing" really. I was creating and uploading a word 2007 doc. I found a way to set it editable online. When I opend it in the editor just symbols showed up.

But to stay general: Alfresco can edit .doc files online and export it back as .doc file is this true?
thank you for your help.

greetings
art

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

norgan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:32:43 GMT

You have to differenciate between
"editing online vs offline" and "inline editing". inline Editing is done with the TinyMCE Editor, which is a HTMl Wysiwig Editor, or via textfield for XML & TXT files. All other filetypes are edited by the registered application, most of the time meaning "download to the client and starting the APP there". So Alfresco does not have inline editing capability for Word et.al.

Online editing will try to store the object, presented in the page, which comes out the same, I think. Offline editing will make you download the file and upload it later for re-checkin. This can be done with inline-editable files as well.

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

jhonjairoroa87 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:39 GMT

I have a question…..

With alfresco, Can I create a simple web aplication, with forms (form design), and the data will be persisted into defined table of a database…

For instance, with alfresco, can i develop an aplication that would manage all the borrowing books, so i have to persist the users, the books, etc….

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

emersion — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:38:43 GMT

Hi to all

I am very new to Alfresco….
I have downloaded Alfresco SDK (with samples)
I am able to compile ,
but how to run and move ahed in alfresco ?
Do i need to install Alfreco Community Edition?

can any One help me how to move ahed in alfresco DM ?.

Thanks in Advance

Re: Generell Question from a newbie

invictus9 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:05:22 GMT

I have a question…..

With alfresco, Can I create a simple web aplication, with forms (form design), and the data will be persisted into defined table of a database…

For instance, with alfresco, can i develop an aplication that would manage all the borrowing books, so i have to persist the users, the books, etc….

My personal take is that you are describing a database application. The users have attributes that are clearly defined up front, the books have attributes that are clearly defined up front, and the things you want to do with them are clearly defined. The data is very structured. For a small-medium application, you might consider Ruby-on-rails; for a larger one, JBoss/Seam, etc, as they are designed for just that sort of database interaction.

However, if you have an existing Alfresco installation, and you want to add a bit of functionality to support a lending library, then Alfresco could certainly do the job. You have create custom content types for the library patrons and for book descriptions. Then you can add associations between the lendee and the book loaned, in an aspect for borrowing information. Then some web scripts to report on overdue items, etc., could be written.