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Are these Sharepoint capabilities available in Alfresco?

burton
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
I'm looking for a Sharepoint alternative. We currently rely on it for a limited number of features, and I am trying to find out if Alfresco has these features. I've been browsing the Alfresco site for a while and it's actually pretty hard to get a sense of its feature set. Here's what I need it to do:

-Document sharing and management (I know Alfresco has this)
-Let users populate a database through a front-end interface, similar to Sharepoint's List tool
-Let users create graphic reports based on that data
-Let users create chat rooms for groups of people

I imagine all of these capabilities are at least possible through custom add-ons, but given our situation, I would need them out-of-the-box or with an instantly available add-on. It'd be really helpful if I could see these in action as well.

Thanks for any insight you can provide…
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timbery
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
You can the Alfresco Share.

teox76
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hello,
we are looking too to a Sharepoint alternative, and one of the most needed feature for us is the custom lists and views, that I must say in Sharepoint are very advanced.
As already said discussions and sharing are well supported trough Alfresco Share.

I have played a bit with the dynamic lists of Alfresco Share but found out that they are very limited: from what I have seen it's not possible to create customized views (like Calendar, etc) or reports out-of-the-box. Even the creation of the lists itself involves the editing of an xml file (correct me if I'm wrong).

Is there a plug-in or add-on that offers that functionalities and permits the non-tech people of my society to use and create dynamic lists as well?

burton
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
It looks like the new Datalists feature is an attempt to duplicate the SharePoint Lists tool, but it appears I have to choose from a few pre-built list types instead of being able to truly create my own list with custom fields. Is that correct?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZnLfzCMiE

mrogers
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
No.   Those are just examples.

burton
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
No. Those are just examples.

Can I see a custom list in action, then?