topic Re: Are We Just Doing Document Management??? in Alfresco Archive

Are We Just Doing Document Management???

peterstb — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Hi All,We've recently started evaluating Alfresco as part of a larger ECM evaluation, including other commercial vendors. We have installed 3.2 Community and have been doing some POC work to see if Alfresco will be a good fit!Our company uses a proprietary framework, very similar to Struts, and I d

Re: Are We Just Doing Document Management???

mrogers — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:55:24 GMT

Sandboxes are part of Alfresco WCM. Are you using it?

Re: Are We Just Doing Document Management???

peterstb — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:28:45 GMT

We aren't sure "how" to use sandboxes, in the context of how we are taking advantage of Alfresco? Have any suggestions?

We are using the Alfresco web console to manage pieces of content, and access that content later via HTTP calls. We were hoping that based on the authentication credentials passed to Alfresco, to get an alf_ticket, we might see different results in our HTTP call to get the content. i.e. The user that is changing content would see "working copy" of content, vs. another user who would see the actual "live" content.

Recommendations?

Thanks,
Todd

Re: Are We Just Doing Document Management???

mrogers — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:46:05 GMT

You want to install Alfresco WCM. And create a Web Project. The web project is very special and has a different structure to the spaces you are using at the moment. It knows all about "working copy"s of files.

When you use the WCM functionality. Each author has their own "sandbox" that they can access via web script, CIFS, WebDav, Explorer Client etc. They are then able to submit their content once its ready. Send it via approval workflows etc. The sandboxes work as "layers" over content. Imagine panes of glass stacked on top of each other. Your live web site is on the bottom pane of glass.