Alfresco Share

[tobiashofmann]

Hi,

I'm testing the new Share application. While Alfresco is positioning this app as a Microsoft SharePoint replacement, I'm missing one really important functionality that SharePoint does offer:
Lists.

List are one of the killer features of SharePoint. The make it really easy to add a link (internal/external), contact information, document abstracts, etc to a team site. While I now do have the ability to add Wiki, Calendars, etc, I still don't know how to publish quite easy some important collaboration functionalities. In other SharePoint sites I'm responsible for, I use list as Lessons Learned, Best Practices, SPOC, etc publication. The great thing about the MS lists is, that they enable Employee Self-Service and they are customizable, so the end-user can create and define the name of the fields/labels.

Are lists a pending feature for Alfresco Share?

br,
Tobias

[jbarmash]

Tobias,

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we recognize that Lists are a great feature of SharePoint, and are planning to add this functionality.  Right now it is possible though defining your own content model in the data dictionary,  but I understand that the ability to do this through UI is the killer feature. 

So, unfortunately I don't know the timelines for when this is planned for - for original release they were trying to put together some key infrastructure pieces, but I will forward this post to product managers as an example of people asking for this. 



Jean