topic Re: Alfresco for a user community web platform in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-for-a-user-community-web-platform/m-p/260572#M213702 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The first thing to address is this: What role will Alfresco play in your solution? Let's start with the user interface. Do you like Alfresco Share as the main user interface for this solution? If not, you're going to have to develop your own. For that there is Drupal as well as any one of hundreds of other portals, frameworks, and languages. All of them can use Alfresco as the back-end.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So now let's talk about the back-end. Are you doing something that uniquely requires Alfresco? For example, maybe you have a large amount of unstructured content (files). Or maybe you have significant workflow requirements. Or you might like to have all of your content in a CMIS repository so that you can have a language neutral API for working with it from the front-end. If any of these match your situation, then you might like to use Alfresco as your repository. As you say, this may complicate your architecture beyond what you can tolerate. Or, it might be exactly what you need–multiple components working together in a best-of-breed architecture.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Multiple people have integrated Moodle with Alfresco, but the devil is in the details. I'm sure there are all kinds of integrations with Moodle from Drupal and other front-ends. The point is that your list doesn't really uniquely qualify Alfresco over any other repository. You could probably use anything to accomplish that feature set. What matters is the "how" of your solution.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know I am not answering your question directly. But hopefully by shifting the question from "can Alfresco do this" to "how will Alfresco be used as part of the solution" you can figure out whether or not it makes sense to use it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:14:31 GMT jpotts 2011-08-08T23:14:31Z Alfresco for a user community web platform https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-for-a-user-community-web-platform/m-p/260571#M213701 Hello everyone,The company I'm working for plans to create a user community web platform. Here is what needs to be possible :- Management of users withs groups- Ranking between users (with a vote between users, a kind of "like" or "+1")- Integration of e-learning tools (Moodle for instance ?)- Direc Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:46:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-for-a-user-community-web-platform/m-p/260571#M213701 morphilos 2011-07-26T10:46:30Z Re: Alfresco for a user community web platform https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-for-a-user-community-web-platform/m-p/260572#M213702 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The first thing to address is this: What role will Alfresco play in your solution? Let's start with the user interface. Do you like Alfresco Share as the main user interface for this solution? If not, you're going to have to develop your own. For that there is Drupal as well as any one of hundreds of other portals, frameworks, and languages. All of them can use Alfresco as the back-end.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So now let's talk about the back-end. Are you doing something that uniquely requires Alfresco? For example, maybe you have a large amount of unstructured content (files). Or maybe you have significant workflow requirements. Or you might like to have all of your content in a CMIS repository so that you can have a language neutral API for working with it from the front-end. If any of these match your situation, then you might like to use Alfresco as your repository. As you say, this may complicate your architecture beyond what you can tolerate. Or, it might be exactly what you need–multiple components working together in a best-of-breed architecture.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Multiple people have integrated Moodle with Alfresco, but the devil is in the details. I'm sure there are all kinds of integrations with Moodle from Drupal and other front-ends. The point is that your list doesn't really uniquely qualify Alfresco over any other repository. You could probably use anything to accomplish that feature set. What matters is the "how" of your solution.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know I am not answering your question directly. But hopefully by shifting the question from "can Alfresco do this" to "how will Alfresco be used as part of the solution" you can figure out whether or not it makes sense to use it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:14:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-for-a-user-community-web-platform/m-p/260572#M213702 jpotts 2011-08-08T23:14:31Z