topic Confused! What purpose does Alfresco serve? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12211#M4963 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am looking for a java based content management system, to be used in a website context.. Alfresco showed up in my search for one… but I am unsure if Alfresco fits this role. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I downloaded, installed, and got running Alfresco. As far as I can see, I upload files to Alfresco, and Alfresco stores them into a database, using MySQL?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But how does this help me manage my website files? i.e. </SPAN><A href="http://localhost/helloworld/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost/helloworld/index.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Doing it the manual way, I would modify the index.html file located in my tomcat_installation_dir/webapps/helloworld directory.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps this is not Alfresco's purpose (managing website content,) if so what would one use Alfresco for?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:52:17 GMT madhatter 2006-01-24T02:52:17Z Confused! What purpose does Alfresco serve? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12211#M4963 I am looking for a java based content management system, to be used in a website context.. Alfresco showed up in my search for one… but I am unsure if Alfresco fits this role. I downloaded, installed, and got running Alfresco. As far as I can see, I upload files to Alfresco, and Alfresco stores them Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:52:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12211#M4963 madhatter 2006-01-24T02:52:17Z Re: Confused! What purpose does Alfresco serve? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12212#M4964 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, currently Alfresco is focused on document management. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Our web content management features will be coming sometime later this year.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:48:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12212#M4964 gavinc 2006-01-24T09:48:55Z Re: Confused! What purpose does Alfresco serve? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12213#M4965 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Alfresco, at its core, is a general purpose content repository with content management services.&nbsp; There is an application surface, the web client, , which at the moment is very document-centric.&nbsp; However, this will be changing this year, with WCM features arriving from about June onwards.&nbsp; There are features already there that people are using for managing content that is served to websites (e.g. transformations, content templates), but capabilities like site management are not there today.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Watch out for announcements next month about our WCM <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Paul.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:56:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/confused-what-purpose-does-alfresco-serve/m-p/12213#M4965 paulhh 2006-01-24T09:56:56Z