Alfresco for remote collaboration hosting

[rtacconi]

Hi,

I would like to use Alfresco Share for remote collaboration of CAD designers. The designers should share autocad files, Word documents, etc. having a message board and using a project management tool. They should be organized as groups/teams to manage one or more projects. Each cannot absolutely see what another team is using, since the Alfresco installation will provide this service as a hosting service for different companies.

So, it is possible to create a hosting solution where teams can manage project in a sort of 'sandboxes' having the content separated from each other?

Second question: since there is not any project management tool in Alfresco, which best tool is suitable for this task? Just developing an extension with Spring an Hibernate or with other Alfresco's in-built tools, such a Freemarker or Web script?

Thanks very much.

[zaizi]

You can you Alfresco Share sites as "sandboxes".

Can you expand on the project management requirements?

[rtacconi]

The main feature is to share files in a sanbox, one sandbox per company or group of designers. A group should be able to create n projects. Each project should have one or more milestones, each milestone several tasks. A simple project management. Plus, a shared calendar - which is already present in Liferay - would be fantastic, but is a second requisite.

So: project -> milestone -> tasks -> a task associated to n users.

Thanks for your help.

[zaizi]

This is definitely doable in Alfresco. The functionality will need to be exposed in Share. You can use Web scripts / Freemarker to extend Share for sure.

[rtacconi]

Where I can find sone info about the sandboxes? I do not have an idea how it works.

Thanks.