Alfresco vs. Drupal

[beren]

Hi All,

I suppose this is a topic sure to generate many comments, but it would be helpful to get some advice. We've been using Drupal to manage information, collaboration, and documentation on projects we are working on. Drupal is a great product and we like to work on-line using the books, blogs, and wikis. However we also need good document management functions. Alfresco has these, but I do not see tools integrated into Alfresco to allow for on-line publishing without implementing separate tools (ex. MediaWiki that Alfresco uses themselves).

Can Alfresco have integrated on-line authoring in a rich text editor? In a structured format similar to a wiki or blog?

I also noticed that the Alfresco rich-text editor cannot handle image uploads. Is there an alternate editor interface where images can be either attached in-line or uploaded during the editing process?

Your advice would be greatly valued.

beren erchamion

[kkellyc]

Looks like its been a couple months since you posted this, but if you are still looking at Alfresco for Doc Mgmt integrated with Drupal, this new Drupal module just hit the streets January 14th.  http://drupal.org/project/alfresco

It embeds Alfresco content into your Drupal site and requires Alfresco be installed on the server.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to.  I'd LOVE to compare notes with others who are also trying it!  There is of course a thread on the Drupal boards for this, but having the perspective of people using more Alfresco-centric systems would be really helpful too.

~K.

[beren]

I'll have to check that out. We've been using alfresco more and more and even in some cases killing off some drupal sites, but alfresco does not have a lot of the nice modules that drupal does and does not have anywhere near as large a community to build them.

I'll try this out and post back here when I get a chance.