Local Versions of Files; Sync'd to Online

[jeebar]

I'm brand new to the world of ECM ,and am sorry if I've missed an easy answer
while searching the forum and watching a tutorial or two, but here goes.

I need to deploy a repository of documents for my field organization – a team of two dozen including salesreps and systems architects/engineers.
I need them to be able to have versions of some of those documents on their local system so they can search/use them while offline, i.e. on planes or on-site at a client.

Is it possible with Alfresco to have a local version of a file automatically (or manually/periodically) sync'd to its online equivalent/source? If not, do you have a recommendation as to what I should be looking at instead?

Thanks in advance for your assistance and/or patience with my inconceivable ignorance.

- Greg

[norgan]

Hi,
neither Alfresco itself nor the standard clients (explorer, share) does provide an offline functionality. You might try out the microsoft function "Make available offline" for network drives (using CIFS or Webdav) or the Microsoft robocopy tool, I never testet that with alfresco drives.

Or you check out the alternate clients, beeing developed in the community : Flexspaces, Opsoro, Docasu, I think they plan for that.

Let us know what your testresults are.

Norgan

[stevereiner]

The AIR version of FlexSpaces has a "Make Available Offline" in its Tools" menu (and an "Update from offline" menu too). The offline files are stored in <user's Document folder>/FlexSpaces/<alfresco path /Company/Home/etc >/filename
Also in the air version: files viewed online are cached in <document folder>/FlexSpaces/Viewed/<alfresco path>/filename  (and are available offline)