Share vs Explorer

[bcoulson]

All

So I have been evaluating Alfresco for about a month and am beginning to get my head around it and how to configure/customize/extend it. However, the one piece that I am really struggling with is the difference between Alfresco Share and Alfresco Explorer. Why is there a distinction between these two web applications? When is it appropriate to add content to the Explorer and when is it appropriate to use Share? We are looking to replace an existing content management and workflow system with Alfresco and as such, will be doing quite a lot of heavy customization. We have a complex workflow model for creating, reviewing, editing and disseminating documents.

Any insight as to the difference between these two interfaces would be invaluable.

I am using Community Edition 3.4c
Regards
Brenda

[glangue]

Hello,
We use Alfresco since few years now, but we just update the version 4.2.3.
We make all possible to use only Share since we know on the version 5.0 Explorer is not existing anymore.
My post concerne the version 4.2. We noticed that many options are NOT available anymore, as the possibiliy to make a link on a document ! Or to get the URL from the version "pre-version" (the latest version -also current version- get a URL who will be used as versioned when a new version is registered, and we chose to use this URL for our document in place of the current version, to be sure the right URL won't change when a new version is uploaded.
We also DON'T WANT the versioning activated, but in Share it comes automaticly by default, and impossible to changed it !

So we follow using Explorer…

As senior engineer, do you know if those kind of options could be available again ?
Or maybe someone could help us with those 3 problems ?

Thanks for the help.
Kind regards.

[hds]

Hello, I'm currently investigating the use of Alfresco as a system for handling documents and this share and explorer was causing me some confusion as well. What I am after is mostly just a way to keep track of documents (office mostly) and to have automatic versioning, hopefully some automated rules as well to make PDFs automatically when uploading/approving a new version and such. I gather the explorer interface is more suitable for this than the share interface?

[joepittsburg]

Most of my friends are using Alfresco in their system and they want me to use it also because its really handy and useful. I said to them as of now I'm researching more on Alfresco to combine with mine. Thanks for the post.

[tulfoer8888]

Thanks for this post. Im using Alfresco right now and the above comments are very helpful

[paolochen5015]

I actually started using Alfresco Community Edition since its a free version now, we are using the Alfresco Cloud Edition, just saying.