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Some doubts about Alfresco

cristianfrog — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:25:42 GMT

Hi all,I'm a new user consumer of the Alfresco content management software. I successfully installed on my server Alfresco Community Edition and configured it according to my needs.Afterwards I read about accessing Alfresco through Mobile Devices and in particular IPAD and IPHONE. I was very excited

Re: Some doubts about Alfresco

mikeh — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:20:17 GMT

The two apps are quite separate: Alfresco Mobile is the main app that lets you access content, optionally sync it to your device for offline access, perform simple workflow tasks, etc. The Mobile Workdesk app works alongside the <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/products/workdesk">Alfresco Workdesk</a> solution.

Regarding the error you're seeing - the best thing to do is see if anything is in your log files on the server. You don't say which version of Alfresco Community you're using - if it's the latest nightly build, it's possible there's a CMIS issue there currently.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Some doubts about Alfresco

cristianfrog — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:24:00 GMT

First of all thank you for the reply.

The thing I can't understand is why Alfresco Mobile is giving that error instead Alfresco Workdesk doesn't… I even tried Fresh Docs from ziadev and it works well too… And yes I have the latest version of Alfresco (4.2.c). Regarding the logs, I looked at alfresco.log, catalina logs and other files in the /logs/ folder but didn't find anything about this (probably I don't understand which error might be)

I'm quite disappointed about this error, Alfresco Mobile was a nice solution for my needs… but because I don't give up easily, I tried also re-compiling the application from its source from ziadev:
https://bitbucket.org/ziadev/alfresco-mobile/wiki/Home
But when selecting Alfresco > iOS 5.1 Simulator in the XCODE IDE the build stops giving me 13 errors

Any idea about building a custom version or solve that red popup error?
I would not like to down-grade my alfresco community from 4.2 to 4.0

Re: Some doubts about Alfresco

mikeh — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:26:59 GMT

The Alfresco Mobile app has moved on quite significantly from both FreshDocs and Mobile Workdesk and hence uses more REST APIs on the Repository. It's possible something is tripping the app up, but I'd expect it to be logged on the server. We don't have any open JIRA issues in this area so I'm not sure where your problem lies exactly.

Regarding building from source: make sure the target is "Alfresco" and not "FreshDocs" as both are present in the project file and Xcode tends to default to the latter.

Thanks,
Mike