Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 Share Feature List

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The following provides details of all the major features provided the Share application in the Alfresco Community 3.2 Release.

Table of Contents

• 1 Personal Dashboard


• 2 Site Management


• 3 Site Dashboard


• 4 Site Component - Document Library


• 5 Site Component - Blog


• 6 Site Component - Calendar


• 7 Site Component - Discussions


• 8 Site Component - Wiki


• 9 Site Component - Links


• 10 Site Component - Members


• 11 Search


• 12 User Experience


• 13 Multi-tenant

Personal Dashboard

• Dashboard Layout Templates - Multi-column layout templates
  
• Drag and Drop Dashboard Customization - Add, remove, resize and position dashlets on your personal dashboard using drag and drop
  
• Out-of-the-box Dashlets:
  
  • Activities in My Sites - Rolled up view of all the activities for the sites of which you are a member
    
  • My Profile Dashlet - Displays a summary of your user profile
    
  • My Sites - Create new sites and access sites of which you are a member
    
  • User Calendar - Rolled up view of all calendar events for all your sites
    
  • RSS Feed - Display any RSS feed on your dashboard
    
  • Document Favorites - Tag favorite documents from any site for quick access from your personal dashboard
    

Site Management

• Customizable Page Components - Simple definition of the collaboration components required for your site
  
• Site Finder - Search for Public sites, users are automatically consumers of public sites
  
• Site Members - Managed, email based, invite process for existing users or new (non-registered) users to join site; Automatic registration for new users; Manage site invites pending, accepted, and cancel invites
  
• Site Profile - Site metadata including name and description
  
• Favorite Sites - User managed personal lists of favorite sites for quick access
  

Site Dashboard

• Configurable Site Dashboards via drag and drop
  
• Standard dashlets for:
  
  • Site Profile - Summary information about the site including Name, Description, Site Manager(s), Type of Site (Public/Moderated/Private)
    
  • Site Colleagues - Find and view rich profiles for site colleagues
    
  • Wiki Page Viewer - Display any Wiki page on the site dashboard
    
  • Site Activities - See the recent changes that have taken place across the site
    
  • Recently Modified Documents - Quick access to the documents modified within the past seven days
    
  • Links - Display and Visit Site Links (URLs)
    
  • Image Preview - Lightbox style view for images in site document library
    
  • Site Calender - Summary of the upcoming scheduled events
    
  • RSS Feed - Configurable dashlet for display internal or external RSS feeds
    
  • Site Links - Quick access to internal/external site links
    
  • Web View - Display any web page by configuring URL
    

Site Component - Document Library

• Custom Types, Aspects and Metadata - Change Type, add/remove Aspects and view/edit custom document metadata
  
• Multi-file upload - Bulk upload multiple files in a single operation
  
• Dynamic Filters - Filter the list of files based on Tags, Recently added/modified, Files you/others are editing
  
• Hierarchical (Tree) or Drill-down browsing
  
• Rich Document Metadata - including Name, Title, Description, Mimetype, and Tags
  
• Version Control - Simple update process, major/minor versions, version comments, and version history
  
• Commenting
  
• Thumbnails - Automatic generation for wide-range of formats including MSOffice, OpenOffice, Image, and PDF
  
• Flash Previews - Full Flash-based document preview, no download or client application launch required
  
• Multi-Select Operations - Move/Copy multiple items in a single operation
  
• RSS Feed for recent changes
  
• Fine grained permissions
  
• Simple editing support for MS Office Documents*
  

* Requires Windows and IE6+ as default browser

Site Component - Blog

• Blog posting to Site and External Blogs - Post blogs as draft, to the site and/or to external blogging sites including TypePad and WordPress
  
• Dymamic Filters - Filter list of blog post based on Tags, Draft, Latest, Published internally/externally
  
• Commenting - Commenting support against blog posts
  
• Blog Archives - Find old posts based on published dates
  
• RSS Feed for latest blog posts
  

Site Component - Calendar

• Multiple Views - Day/Week/Month/Agenda
  
• Drag n' Drop Events to update
  
• Event Tagging - Tagging and filtering of events
  
• iCalendar Support
  

Site Component - Discussions

• Threaded Discussions - Post topic and replies
  
• Dynamic Filtering - Tags/New/Hot/All/My Topics
  
• RSS Feed for latest discussions
  

Site Component - Wiki

• Simple Page Creation - Simple GUI driven page editing
  
• Cross-page Linking - Standard wiki markup for page linking such as [[My Target Page]]
  
• Automatic Target Page Creation - Clicking a link to a target that doesn't exist yet opens the target page for editing
  
• Dynamic Page Filtering - Tags/Recently Modified/Recently Added/My Pages/Main Page
  
• Automatic Versioning and History - Updates automatically version and ability to view previous versions
  
• Redirect on Rename - Automatic redirect links when the target page has been renamed
  

Site Component - Links

• Capture links (URLs) to any location
  
• Links open in same or new window/tab
  
• Filtering - Tags, All Links, My Links, Recently Added
  
• Create, edit and delete comments against links
  

Site Component - Members

• Search for Site members, Groups and Pending invites
  
• Invite users to the site with appropriate roles
  
• Create/Add external users
  
• Add new group
  

Search

• Google Style Simple Search - Single search box searches across all site content including metadata and full text
  
• Individual or all Sites - Search within a particular site or across all sites
  

User Experience

• AJAX driven UI built using the Yahoo YUI Library
  
• Drag & Drop Layouts for dashboard, calender
  
• Thumbnails
  
• Adobe Flash Document Previews allows zooming, thumbnail and full screen view of document content
  
• User-friendly URLs pages are human readable, can be bookmarked and emailed
  
• Support for browser 'Back' button
  

Multi-tenant

• Alfresco Share can now be run in an Alfresco multi-tenant environment
  

Community Edition
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