Evaluating Alfresco Cloud as CMS solution for public website

[adevarajan]

Hi

We are looking at using the Alfresco cloud solution for managing our contents which are published regularly to our publish websites.
Currently we are using vignette as our CMS and thinking of replacing it with Alfresco specifically the WCM capabilities.

I did took a look at alfresco cloud by registering an account and it seems more like a collaboration solution and not equivalent to WCM which involves authoring, content contributing, publishing , workflow task management. Is my observation correct or am I missing something due to incomplete exploration?

Also I took a look at Alfresco 4.2 b community edition by installing it in my desktop and played around for a while. Used the alfresco console(http://localhost:8080/alfresco) to create a custom content model but could not get it right. But this is what the functionality we wanted in the cloud to consider Alfresco Cloud as our solution. Is there any plan to include such capabilities in the cloud or can this capability can be brought to the cloud if we have our onpremise & cloud solution.

Thanks
Arvind

[resplin]

Alfresco Cloud currently does not support custom content models, but that feature is being actively worked on. It is a relatively new product for us, and we are rolling out features quickly.

A little background on Alfresco's WCM capabilities would probably help you. Alfresco's focus is on providing web content services that can be used by any web presentation layer that best meets your project needs. This allows you to take advantage of Alfresco's robust content management and workflow tools for your authoring environment, while also taking advantage of the innovation of projects that focus on the presentation layer. The on-premise editions of Alfresco (both Community and Enterprise Editions) have capabilities to publish from an authoring environment to a presentation tier (http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/tasks/library-item-publish.html), to a file system (http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/FSTR-intro.html), or to be queried dynamically through the API's (get started at http://cmis.alfresco.com). Web Quick Start (http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/WQS-intro.html) provides a template for building a custom Java front-end that takes advantage of these capabilities.

We recently deployed the public cloud API which is based on CMIS and allows you to query into Alfresco Cloud and pull your content into a front-end web portal. The best place to get started is here: https://developer.alfresco.com/cloud

Two more tips:

* The modern interface to Alfresco on-premise is Alfresco Share accessible at http://localhost:8080/share

* The documentation on building custom content models in the on-premise version of Alfresco is here:

http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/content-modeling-about.html

[linhnh11]

Hi Resplin,
Now, does Alfresco Cloud support custom content models.is this feature activated?
If yes, could you please tell me how to to it.
On Alfresco server (setup on my desktop) I create content model by create a xml file.
Tks