Is Document Management installed by default?

[jepp]

We are evaluating Alfresco and have installed the community version (alfresco-community-3.4.b-installer-linux-x64.bin) with all included components except sharepoint and record management.

Is this enough to get "Document Management"?
Because when I login to Alfresco I don't see any references to document management. When I add content it just says "content". Is this the way it is supposed to be?

We intended to perform a short evaluation by installing Alfresco and playing around a little bit, add documents, create views, test baseline handling, test linking to other systems etc. Maybe we were too optimistic that it would be possible to evaluate and learn about Alfresco in this way?

Örjan

[loftux]

Yes, it is installed by default. You can do Document Managent with Alfresco as is. That said, you will start adding custom document types with custom document properties.

If you login to http://servername:8080/share ->
You have 2 places where you can do document management.
- Create a site, and you will get a Document Library. This part is targeted towards Collaboration, but you can use it for standard document management.
- Repository, you will find a button it on the top toolbar. This is more of a classic documente management. Just start creating folders, and add you documents.

Is it a more specific functionality you are looking for?

[jepp]

Thanks, I think this answered my question.

I didn't know that I was supposed to login to http://servername:8080/share.
The admin who installed Alfesco gave me the URL http://servername:8080/alfresco but I guess that is for admin tasks only?

Örjan

[loftux]

/alfresco (Alfresco Explorer) is the old Alfresco client, and is fully capable of document management. But you are correct in that some admin tasks you still have to do using this client (but not many). But stick with with Share, that the best option for you evaluation. Don't miss out the help button up in the right corner, it does give you an insight on what you can do.

[jepp]

I have followed your instructions regarding "share" and followed a tutorial on how to create a site and invite members.
When I try to invite my own Alfresco account (not admin), it takes very long time (hangs) and eventually Alfresco gets unstable.

After trying to invite a user to a site I get errors like this:

An error has occured in the Share component: /share/service/components/site-members.
It responded with a status of 500 - Internal Error.
Error Code Information: 500 - An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
Error Message: 10110001 Failed to load script 'classpath*:alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/site-members/site-members.get.js': 10110000 TypeError: Cannot read property "role" from null (file:/opt/alfresco-3.4.b/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/site-members/site-members.get.js#15)
Server: Alfresco Spring WebScripts - v1.0.0 (Release Candidate 2 675) schema 1,000
Time: Nov 11, 2010 7:16:43 PM
Click here to view full technical information on the error.

An error has occured in the Share component: /share/service/components/site-finder.
It responded with a status of 500 - Internal Error.
Error Code Information: 500 - An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
Error Message: 10110002 Failed to process template org/alfresco/components/site-finder/site-finder.get.html.ftl
Server: Alfresco Spring WebScripts - v1.0.0 (Release Candidate 2 675) schema 1,000
Time: Nov 11, 2010 7:17:55 PM

10110139 10110157 Too busy: 1 transactions. Oldest 34402 milliseconds

Alfresco is installed in a virtual machine with limited memory (2GB). Maybe that is part of the problem?

Örjan

[loftux]

If you haven't changed the default memory in JAVA_OPTS in the startupscript, memory may be the cause of your issues. You need to tweak this to use the memory available. 2Gb should be enough for evaluation.
http://www.alfresco.com/help/34/community/adminhelp/ and specifically http://www.alfresco.com/help/34/community/adminhelp/concepts/jvm-settings.html

If not, post the full log, put it in the Code tag above to take less space.

[qeworo]

I have installed "alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-win-x64.exe".  I have gone through the "Getting Started with Alfresco" tutorial without problem.  However, the "Getting Started with Alfresco Explorer Document Management" tutorial shows screens not available from my installation. I have looked at users "Jepp" and "Loftux" posts, but they worked on an earlier version Alfresco 3.4 where Alfresco Explorer is the old Alfresco client.  Is "Alfresco Explorer Document Management" installed by default with the community version 4.2.c? where can I activate it to be able to follow the tutorial? Is it an add-on?. 
I'm running from "http://127.0.0.1:8080/share/page/user/admin/dashboard" on a laptop with Win 8 64bits, procesor x64 Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.40GHz, 16Gb RAM and 3Tb Hard Drive.

Thanx

[sasquatch58]

Does this not help? http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/tasks/start-webclient.html
In your case, the Explorer should be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco but only from a browser on the same machine.
Cheers, Sasquatch