topic A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages in Alfresco Archive

A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

benjaminb — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:13:20 GMT

Hi, i am new to Alfresco and i am currently checking if Alfresco Share could be a suitable solution for knowledge management and collaboration. The most interesting parts of Alfresco Share seem to be the Document Library and the Wiki pages structured by sites. This system seems to fit perfectly for

Re: A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

norgan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:20:53 GMT

Hmm …
I really am a fan of Alfresco and am a strong believer in its functions, its future and that a good community can support and boost this all. You can do it all, I would say, with slight modifications. But "share" as application is not very far yet and still in developement. It would be great if your company could further this by adapting share to your needs and giving back these features to the community.

But only, if your primary function is document handling. For wiki handling, I would suggest Atlassian, for community interaction in a social network, I find Jive quite impressive. We are using both at my company. Drupal is good as well and liferay is trying to get there, but the Wiki is not usable for non-it people yet.

So coming back - check out a combination of Alfresco and Drupal, maybe ?

Norgan

Re: A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

benjaminb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:05:37 GMT

Hello Norgan,

first of all thank your for your answer! It is great to hear that you recommend all the systems i was testing the last few weeks . The 3 final systems were:
1. Alfresco
2. Confluence (by Atlassian)
3. Drupal

We preferred Alfresco as our primary need is document handling as you say. The combination of a simple wiki and the document library is exactly what we were looking for.

A combination of Alfresco and Drupal sounds great but it should be possible to integrate Drupal just like a page in a site (Wiki / Blog / Document Library / Drupal / …). It could be an interesting alternative if this was possible.

For now i will try to adapt Alfresco Share to our needs.

Regards
Ben

Re: A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

mtomy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:24:37 GMT

Hello!

I've installed Alfresco Cummunity 3.2 in my organisation and it looks great! But it seems that Alfresco is not a ECM that i need. Because of my company size i just need to have document contol system and corporate calendar. Alfresco calendar is great, but document library lacks of powerful search engine. So, can you suggest me the other ECM for my purposes?

Best wishes, Mikhail

Re: A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

karakal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:51:57 GMT

What kind of searches do you need that are not satisfied by Alfresco?

Re: A couple of questions about sites, search and wiki pages

mtomy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:26:10 GMT

I need a flexible searching in Site Document Library. Speaking "flexible" i mean searching by author, by date, by title. May be smth else parameters. I did'n find a good search engine in http://serverort/share web-interface. Do i do smth wrong? Can you redirect me to a good manual describes what should i do?

Thank you.