Alfresco 2.9B Available for Download

[kevinr]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Alfresco Community 2.9B.

[img]http://tenthpla.net/archive/projectSpace-11dec2007.png[/img]

This Community release is the second in the set of releases that will showcase upcoming Alfresco 3.0 product enhancements. This release also includes additional bugs fixes rolled up from our 2.1 Enterprise updates.

Our Community 2.9B release provides access to the following new team collaboration capabilities for test and evaluation:

* Project Spaces (image library, doc library, email-in archive, calendar, IM presence, blog integration)
* iGoogle Gadgets
* Extended Person Profile

Happy testing.

Alfresco Engineering

NOTE: as usual it will take SourceForge 24hrs+ to update it's mirrors!

[kevinr]

We have cleared space on the dev machine so hopefully the nightly build should go up today.

Get the 2.9B release from here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373

Kevin

[kevinr]

Hi,

Is there documentation on what we can do with the Email Archive, Email Alias, Email ID ? (How to configure, how does it work?)

I also see that every object has an Email ID, how can we use this Email ID.

John.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Email_Server_Configuration

[fselendic]

Nice release, great new features

Regarding calendar, once upon a time we had some code that was adding CalDav functionality to Alfresco 1.4. Would you guys be interested in something like that (enabling access to CalDav clients)?

Also, question related to general 2.9 release; what are ECM Forms and how can we test them? Any documentation on those?

[olivier_migeot]

Nice release, great new features

Agrees on that.

Regarding calendar, once upon a time we had some code that was adding CalDav functionality to Alfresco 1.4. Would you guys be interested in something like that (enabling access to CalDav clients)?

I don't know about developers, but that would be a very good idea. We are currently storing our organizational calendars in Alfresco through WebDAV, but CalDAV should be even better for that purpose, shouldn't it?

Also, question related to general 2.9 release; what are ECM Forms and how can we test them? Any documentation on those?

From what I understood, you create an XML-schema file in /Data dictionnary/Forms and then when you create new content you have the opportunity to select this "schema" and create a document based on it.

Or maybe there is more than that?

[kevinr]

DM forms (defined in "Forms" space, from an XSD) work in the same way as Web Forms (defined in "Web Forms" space, from an XSD) but don't support renditions. Once defined, use "Create Content" to select form and create / edit the XML (via generated form UI). There are some docs here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Developer_Guide#ECM_Forms

There will be improved docs for DM forms soon!

Thanks,

Kevin

[fselendic]

DM forms (defined in "Forms" space, from an XSD) work in the same way as Web Forms (defined in "Web Forms" space, from an XSD) but don't support renditions. Once defined, use "Create Content" to select form and create / edit the XML (via generated form UI). There are some docs here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Developer_Guide#ECM_Forms

There will be improved docs for DM forms soon!

Thanks,

Kevin

Thnks a lot! Seems like something that we REALLY need
Will test ASAP.

[isiah]

Is the 2.9b release considered beta?

Thanks!

Dan

[mikeh]

No, it's just the second release of v2.9.

Thanks,
Mike

[orion]

Good day,

Excellent work. Congratulations! We are making some tests before upgrade our server and we found some issues that we want to share with the community and post at jira.

Our Platform for test:

Core 2 Duo 1 Gb RAM
Ubuntu Server 7.10
War Installation
JDK 1.6.0.03
Tomcat 6.0.14
MySQL 5.45 (MySQL GUI Tools Administration) ***
OpenOffice (The latest version installed with apt-get)
Imagemagick (The latest version installed with apt-get)
Samba (The latest version installed with apt-get)
eth0 and eth0 configured for CIFS

Issues Founded:

1. All the Ajax apps in order to choose Spaces [Select Space] in some actions under Rules creation does not work with Firefox.

2. The logo for sourcefoge at the footer appears bad in Internet Explorer.

3. Webdav does not work. CIFS and FTP works fine.

4. Transform a file to PDF and put the copy at another space works does not make the copy at the other selected space, in fact let the copy at the same space with original.


*** About MySQL 5.0.45 ***

This was our nightmare for the installation.

The new version of MySQL do not use the skip-networking environment variable in order to access MySQL from MySQL GUI Tools.

You must disable first the bind variable at /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf, restart MySQL and access MySQL from the console and apply all privileges to root@% and then create the alfresco database and user and his provileges.

We will make some tests with the new versions of MySQL 5.1 and 6BETA.

We are making the translation to Spanish and we found that we must explore the code because some messages for workflow and Office Add-on web scripts are contained into the code, but aour work is in progress.

THE PROJECT SPACE is excellent. We are thinking in many uses for this option. We are exploring the Jabber connection in order to have a secure  IM option.

[mikeh]

Hi

Excellent work. Congratulations! We are making some tests before upgrade our server and we found some issues that we want to share with the community and post at jira.

Many thanks. Also, please do raise any issues in JIRA rather than solely relying on the forums for bug reports.

1. All the Ajax apps in order to choose Spaces [Select Space] in some actions under Rules creation does not work with Firefox.

I can't duplicate this with 2.9B and Firefox 2.0.0.11 on WinXP. Please detail your steps to reproduce in the JIRA issue.

2. The logo for sourcefoge at the footer appears bad in Internet Explorer.

I also can't see any issue with the sourceforge logo with IE7. Please attach a screenshot to the JIRA report if this is reproducible.

3. Webdav does not work. CIFS and FTP works fine.

Plesase raise in JIRA with more details about exactly what does and doesn't work. I'm not clear which client O/S or application you're attempting WebDAV access with.

4. Transform a file to PDF and put the copy at another space works does not make the copy at the other selected space, in fact let the copy at the same space with original.

Again, please detail steps to reproduce this in a JIRA report.

*** About MySQL 5.0.45 ***

This was our nightmare for the installation.

The new version of MySQL do not use the skip-networking environment variable in order to access MySQL from MySQL GUI Tools.

You must disable first the bind variable at /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf, restart MySQL and access MySQL from the console and apply all privileges to root@% and then create the alfresco database and user and his provileges.

We will make some tests with the new versions of MySQL 5.1 and 6BETA.

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying the problem is here - did the Alfresco db_setup script not work with 5.0.45? If not, that's another one for JIRA please!

We are making the translation to Spanish and we found that we must explore the code because some messages for workflow and Office Add-on web scripts are contained into the code, but aour work is in progress.

Thanks for your contribution. We're aware that the Office add-ins aren't currently I18N enabled, but this is on our todo list and will hopefully be released with a future 2.9 version.

I'm locking this announcement thread now, as it's already getting messy with various issue reports, suggestions and other comments. We do value Community contributions such as these, but it's all too easy to lose information if a thread contains too many separate conversations.

Therefore, please start new threads for issues with v2.9, remembering to state clearly which version you're using in the post. This will ensure your valuable input will get the attention it deserves.

Thanks,
Mike