topic Re: decision making and starting points in Alfresco Archive

decision making and starting points

jogla — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:46:13 GMT

Hi all,I'm new to alfresco - and tryin' to get the following goals accomplished and to make the decision, if it's the right tool for me as an intranet-webmaster and our organisation. ('hope that's the right forum.)Could you please provide me the starting points and/or some small answers, respectivel

Re: decision making and starting points

jpotts — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:35:24 GMT

Because you will definitely be using Enterprise Edition, you should get in touch with Alfresco. They can assign someone to your account and start answering these questions and possibly demo some of this stuff for you. In the meantime, here are some fast, high-level opinions…

For your intranet pages, I don't know why you want to use Alfresco for that. What you described sounds like a good job for Drupal or similar. Whatever you use for that can then pull content from Alfresco if it needs to.

Changing layouts will involve FreeMarker at the least. You need to learn more about the Surf framework (pre 5.0) or Aikau (5.0) to understand how pages are created.

Ask your Alfresco rep about Workdesk/RM integration. There has been some movement in this area, I think.

Regarding 5.0, you can download and install 5.0.a community right now to get an idea for how enterprise is shaping up. If you don't want to mess with that, check out this short video I made showing some of the new features, including faceted search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41AtseLsdqE

There is a tags tool in the admin console. Similar for categories.

For metadata values, if you want to change those in bulk you can use the CMIS API.

On 5.x release dates, see if you can get your rep to tell you. I suspect we'll see something by Alfresco Summit but that something might be a beta. Who knows!

Jeff

Re: decision making and starting points

jogla — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:21:20 GMT

Hello Jeff,
just found in one of your recent blogs posts on http://ecmarchitect.com which. It sheds a light on the things we should NOT expect alfresco to be.
Especially the first "anti-pattern" regarding WCM was usefull for me. My thinking: "use the one system - it's easier than two of them" is apparently wrong. The answer was also in your answer in this thread (Drupal…)
Here's the link to the blog-post in case anyone's stumbling upon this thread.

<a href="http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2014/06/26/3896">Alfresco Anti-Patterns: When You Probably Shouldn’t Use Alfresco [http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2014/06/26/3896]</a>

Regards, Joerg

Re: decision making and starting points

myunus — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:45:13 GMT

Decision making is always a challenging job however, it's not so easy to do but it needs some quality in personality as well as in academic learning. As a writer i have to think always something different and something new and sometimes it's not so easy to implement a new idea especially when you are trying to write something like scientific!.i am happy to learn a lot in these topic.

Re: decision making and starting points

jogla — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:45:13 GMT

(Please excuse my late answer: was on holidays.)
I really appreciate the answers of Jeff and myunus!

I must have been in a very wild dream to have asked for more detailed answers - well to apologize: I just want to make my / our learning curve not so steep.

And here we are at the three important aspects of my loooong question - may be they'll also help myunus in some way:

1st aspect: There are many questions and some of them (randomly or according to importance) have to be answered on a very deep level. It is important to examin very exactly in order to say "yes, that will be our system for the next years!". We do not need to check all business cases but the most important ones - and the above was my filtrate.

2nd aspect: How much do we have to learn in order to implement a system for the purpose to make these examinations? System should be set up AND customized easily, with a perferably shallow learning curve. In Alfresco the installation is easy and for getting started (getting to know how to use the default UI and functions) there are documents in the wiki and documentation pages respectively. The documentation for customizing is also here. But I think there is lack in between - something like "getting started and examples for customization". It's hard for a newcomer to get into that realm.

3rd aspect: As I said that in order to get away from an existing system (ie. Sharepoint - only partly implementet) managers must be convinced. As you can guess they don't want to spend much money, when they don't SEE and FEEL a profit at their fingertips.

Best regards
Joerg