Evaluating Alfresco

[ignu]

I have a few questions on Alfresco, that's hard for me to get a handle on from the wikis/jump box install.

1)   Is it possible to keep documents in the Repository as Word Documents, and export them as PDF or HTML with/ images upon request (or as a final automatic pre-publish step)?
2)   Can Alfresco bundle documents together in a “package” that share a common release date, and not be published until that release date has passed?
3)   Can Alfresco Handle 500,000 Documents
4)   Can Alfresco allow a user to browse the repository, with permissions to different areas managed by a different ACL than used by workflow users/document editor
5)   How does Alfresco’s fulltext search stand up to other solutions using MS Index Server?


Thanks,

Len

[jbarmash]

1)   Is it possible to keep documents in the Repository as Word Documents, and export them as PDF or HTML with/ images upon request (or as a final automatic pre-publish step)?

It is possible to automatically convert any uploaded document to PDF  / HTML, which does the same.  You can also write your own action which does the transformation before allowing your user to download.

2)   Can Alfresco bundle documents together in a “package” that share a common release date, and not be published until that release date has passed?

Yes, with some programming.

3)   Can Alfresco Handle 500,000 Documents

We did a benchmark about half a year ago with 100 Million documents, so yes.

4)   Can Alfresco allow a user to browse the repository, with permissions to different areas managed by a different ACL than used by workflow users/document editor

Yes, Alfresco supports a very flexible (and extensible) authorization model - different users can have completely different permissions.

5)   How does Alfresco’s fulltext search stand up to other solutions using MS Index Server?

Not sure - our search is based on Apache Lucene, so it's pretty powerful.