Alfresco WCMQS need help

[ruibullseye]

Hi everyone,
I've started today with Alfresco Community Edition 4.2e, and during the first hours i was kinda lost, even though i was reading the tutorial and catching up slowly.

Right now i'm having a problem and since im not very experienced in alfresco ( started today remember )  i needed your help.

Here are the programs i have installed at the moment:
- Alfresco Community Edition 4.2e + Alfresco WCM Community 4.2e + Alfresco Web editor Community 4.2e

Alfresco + WCM were installed using the install wizard.
the editor was deployed.

One of my main doubts about Alfresco is:
1 - Can Alfresco be used as a CMS ?

2 - Where can i create my own themes and templates for Alfresco WCM?

Best Regards,
Rui Duarte

[ruibullseye]

please i really need help with this subject

[fgjohnson]

Did you figure this out?
I am of the opinion that Alfresco WCM Community 4.2e + Alfresco Web editor Community 4.2e is broken.

I am able to install it all and create a collaboration site, add the Web Content portlet and import the data for one of the 2 sample sites(the folders and data exists in the Document Library)

The content is viewable via Share - Document Library crawling (originally via …/wcmqs too), and is editable inline. BUT I cannot get the Navigation Buttons to appear when I visit the site in Share.

Is there some mods that have to be added to the content properties? (wc:section or something?)
Thanks

Grant

[maqsood]

Did you guys gone through this link, if not, do so. you'll have a basic idea about the wcm and wcmqs.
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/qs-intro.html

If your alfresco/ share is working perfectly then follow the steps mentioned in below link to create a sample website.
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/tasks/WQS-create-site.html

And then to customize existing css access general_style.css file at <ALFRESCO_HOME>\tomcat\webapps\wcmqs\css\

HTH!

[leonardo_celati]

I am not an Alfresco expert, but if you are using Apache in front of your wcmqs web app, I would like to suggest an alternative aproach for a more flexible solution about CSS and all the supposed static asset. It may sounds complicated, and requires a bit of effort but can lately give more benefit, resulting in less java deploy.

Create a separate folder in share reflecting the same folder structure of your web site. Here is mine.

Static Asset
+–> css
+–> images
+–> scripts
.htaccess
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Assign a job deploying Static Asset to a remote file system, using a properly set up File Transfer Receiver (FTR).
Point your Apache site root configuration to the same folder as FTR
Modify your .htaccess and give rules to redirect /css /images or /scripts request to the document root, and redirect all the rest to the 8080 wcmqs webapp.
The .htaccess will be transferred along with the rest of the files, and is read at every request by apache which will redirect to the proper direction.
Also, Apache is much better in serving all the images rather than a Java Application server.

That's it, you can modify style sheet and the rest without the need to compile and redeploy the app.