Web CMS basics

[radek]

We interested in use Alfresco CMS in our company. Recently we started to experiment with Alfresco Web CMS.
Because we don't have any good tutorials, we would like to ask you
if there is any good tutorial for webCMS.

Particularly we have following problems:
- we tried to define the document structure in webCMS using xml Schema
but the document ignores it.
- we are unable to apply XSL template to the content we created
- is the whole publication chain necessary, or it is possible to assign
only some roles (for example only Manager)?
- we were not able to publish the sandbox (this means if Manager changes
his sandbox, he is not able to transfer his changes to the staging sandbox)
- is there any possibility to map sandboxes to filesystem folders like
in standard Alfresco?

Can you help us to get answers or suggest a way to get solution?

Best regards

[kvc]

- we tried to define the document structure in webCMS using xml Schema
but the document ignores it.

Is it a valid XSD?  Are you getting an error when uploading the schema in the Create Form Wizard, or when accessing as a contributor to create content?

- we are unable to apply XSL template to the content we created

Is it a valid XSL?  Can you apply this XSL normally at the command line on a normal file-system using an instance of XML the corresponds with your XSD?  If so, what error are you seeing when attempting to generate content in the last step of the Create Content Wizard?

- is the whole publication chain necessary, or it is possible to assign
only some roles (for example only Manager)?

Not sure I understand the question - you can have a Web Project where there is only one user sandbox owned by project creator, the Content Manager, and not enforce any workflow on non-form assets (you can also modify the default workflow to eliminate all reviews all together for non-form-based assets).

- we were not able to publish the sandbox (this means if Manager changes
his sandbox, he is not able to transfer his changes to the staging sandbox)

What is the error you are seeing after the submit dialog?  Any change should be promotable to Staging.  If you are using Web Forms and you have not configured workflow, you will indeed get an error as Web Forms today pre-suppose a configured review process.  Is this the issue?

- is there any possibility to map sandboxes to filesystem folders like
in standard Alfresco?

Yes.  You can mount Web Projects as a separate File System using \\machine_name_a\avm.  You will have access to all sandboxes and all snapshots via CIFS.


Kevin