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Some document workflow, can Alfresco 1.3 already do this?

j-wicz — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:14:16 GMT

Dear alfresco community.We are evaluating content management systems for one customer, and in my tendency towards well structured professional open source software (Alfresco) and standards (JSR-170) I would look forward to choose this project rather then SharePoint which other team members suggeste

Re: Some document workflow, can Alfresco 1.3 already do this?

davidc — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:02:06 GMT

Hi,

You can probably support your scenario in v1.3 with some model, script, rules, action customisation.

v1.4 will introduce the concept of tasks (and a task list for each person). jBPM provides support for due dates and reminders with the possibility of invoking any alfresco action (e-mail….), script on jBPM events. We'll also have the notion of a workflow package - a collection of content that's routed through the workflow. Not only does this allow mutliple items to be reviewed etc, but it also allows the collection of new items (i.e. the creation of new content).

v1.4 out-of-the-box won't provide too much reporting, however, as it's all based on jBPM, it's possible to query the jBPM schema from any reporting tool - I've think that Pentahoe may do something in this area.

v1.4 workflow is currently in development and therefore mirrored to our public SVN. It's only just begun, so there's nothing to test drive today.

Re: Some document workflow, can Alfresco 1.3 already do this?

j-wicz — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:54:28 GMT

Dear David,

thanks for the hints.

Alfresco will be our prefferd implementation over Sharepoint. Also your end-user tutorial was helpful from an technical point of view, if you read between the lines and extrapolate introduced concepts. Wiki was also good information source. Roadmap seems one or two month behind, but thats ok for an open source product.

Looking forward to implement this.
Philipp