topic Re: Some remarks about the web client in Alfresco Archive

Some remarks about the web client

smarcon — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:12:39 GMT

First I would like to thank the alfresco team for trying to provide the community with an open-source tool that aims at really being a real document management tool. Thanks for the initiative.The Alfresco adventure only starts of course and there are a lot of functionnalities that are to be implemen

Re: Some remarks about the web client

kevinr — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:42:55 GMT

Hello,

Firstly thanks for your comments and taking the time to examine the web-client

I will try to give answer the issues you mention:

1. Yes, for some action screens this will be possible. In some action screens it is not possible to jump random-access to any page as some steps require information from previous steps.

2. This is a known minor UI bug.

3. This is a known minor UI bug.

4. I agree we know that component is not the best, we have improved it a lot for the next release, hopefully you will think it's better when you see it. I agree that a breadcrumb style navigation aid would help the user also.

5. Agree! This is currently a limitation of the repository that I think is an issue. The working copy has a association back to the original document, but there is no association from the original to the working copy at present which makes this difficult. Hopefully it will be solved in a future version.

6. Unfortuntely this is a limitation of the JSF web-client component architecture we use.

7. I agree, that is a good idea!

8. Yes that would be good, i'll add that to the list of future improvements for that component.

9. I'm not sure about this one - as you say the performance issues could be very large - it may be possible to only check the immediate children rather than recursively, i think a recursive check would be very bad for performance.

Thanks again for you comments,

Kevin

Re: Some remarks about the web client

rwetherall — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:31:40 GMT

Hi,

I have raised a task in JIRA, against the repository, for issue 5.

See http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-155.

Thanks,
Roy

Re: Some remarks about the web client

lintonb — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:14:09 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your comments.

Kevin has already given you answers to most of the issues you raise.

I have an additional comment to make:

4. We have recently conducted a usability assessment for this picker and the addition of a breadcrumb navigation aid was found to be useful. Hopefully we will add this to the component in the near future.

Cheers,
Linton