Managing other web assets in WCM

[rjewson]

Hi,

Were POC'ing a site, and need to incorporate binary assets (images, flash) and css into the WCM.  Various place suggest this is possible e.g.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap#Web_Content_

My question is how do you do it?  The only thing I can think of is that you somehow manage the asset in the ECM, and pass it though to the WCM but there are no examples of this.

Thanks
Richard

[mrogers]

You can handle any asset with alfresco WCM.

Perhaps you need to specify what you into what you mean by "manage"?

[rjewson]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.  For example, a content creator can add textual information via a web form, but how would they add a set of related images with that web form, and how does that get picked up in a deployment, get versioned, sandboxed etc.  At the moment I only have the choice to create web form text based content in the WCM.

[zaizi]

Configure a file picker and define where / how to select assets to relate to the content being created. See: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_XForms_Widgets#FilePicker_configuration_.28Web_Forms_only....

[rjewson]

Ok, but doesnt that just give me a URI inside the xml content?  Say I restrict that URI to an image file the AVM, how does that image file originally get there?

[zaizi]

The widget lets you upload an image as well. There should be a sample article.xsd in the Alfresco installation directory. If has an image widget. Will demo what is possible.

[rjewson]

Many thanks - that was enough to bring various things together