Hi There I've spent the past couple of days setting up and configuring Alfresco, it's got some great out of the box features and is incredibly quick to get up and running with.
That said there are some fairly big grey areas for me, the most important question is how to use WCM to my advantage.
Having followed the examples in the Getting Started Guide I imported the sample site.
I've also created some extra web forms supplied with WCM, namely the article and profile samples and have created content from these successfully.
From what I can gather, I can deploy this web project to a File System Receiver like an Apache docroot, then I'd have a flat site updated via the WCM, nice and simple, although not very dynamic, I'm just pushing content and there's little provision for pages like an index of content (a news listing page), maybe I'm missing something obvious, it's only been a couple of days research…
Then for dynamic stuff there's web scripts, I could have another java or any other flavour application calling web scripts and processing the response from the script service. This addresses the dynamic page problem nicely (although I am having trouble querying the content I've created - probably user error here but any info would be a help).
What I can't really find is the commonality of these two approaches, maybe I just need someone to tell me how they do it, I have looked through the relevant section on these forums but to no avail. My current thinking is I still need to develop a java app to interact with web scripts and produce the dynamic parts of the site, and publish the rest via FSR deployment.
Can anyone tell me if I'm anywhere near right on this or am I missing something crucial?
Cheers
Steve
