Alfresco Share Enterprise 3.0 Features

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The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.com

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The following provides details of all the major features in the Alfresco Share 3.0 release.

Table of Contents

• 1 Personal Dashboards


• 2 Site Dashboards


• 3 Site Management


• 4 Site Component - Document Library


• 5 Site Component - Blog


• 6 Site Component - Calendar


• 7 Site Component - Discussions


• 8 Site Component - Wiki


• 9 Search


• 10 User Experience

Personal Dashboards

• Dashboard Layout Templates - Multi-column layout templates
  
• Drag and Drop Dashboard Configuration - Add, remove, and position dashlets on your personal dashboard using drag and drop
  
• Out-of-the-box dashlets:
  
  • Getting Started - Help and guidance for new Share users
    
  • Documents I'm Editing - List of documents checked out to the current user
    
  • My Tasks - Outstanding workflow tasks
    
  • RSS Feed - Display any RSS feed on your dashboard
    
  • My Limited Profile - Displays a summary of your user profile
    
  • My Calendar - Rolled up view of all calendar events for all your sites
    
  • My Sites Activities - Rolled up view of all the activities for the sites of which you are a member
    
  • My Sites - Create new sites and access to sites of which you are a member
    

Site Dashboards

• Dashboard Layout Templates - Multi-column layout templates
  
• Drag and Drop Dashboard Configuration - Site managers can add, remove and position dashlets on the Site dashboard using drag and drop
  
• Out-of-the-box dashlets:
  
  • Site Calendar - Summary of the upcoming scheduled events for the site
    
  • Site Activities - See the recent changes that have taken place across the site
    
  • Site Wiki - Display the contents of any Site wiki page on the site dashboard
    
  • Site Colleagues - Find and view rich profiles for site colleagues
    
  • Site Profile - Description of the site
    
  • RSS Feed - Display contens of any RSS feed
    
  • Recently Modified Documents - Easily find the documents modified within the past 7 days
    
  • Getting Started - Help, guidance, and tutorial for new Share users
    

Site Management

• Customizable Page Components - Simple definition of the collaboration components required for your site such as Document Library, Wiki, Blog, Calendar
  
• Site Finder - Search for Public sites; request to via moderated joining process
  
• Site Members - Invite existing users or new (non-registered) users to join site; Automatic registration for new users; Manage site invites pending, accepted, and cancel invites
  
• Site Details - Site name, description, public/private site setting (see below)
  
• Public and Private Sites - Allow/disallow read-only browsing of sites for non-site members
  

Site Component - Document Library

• 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) folder
  
• Rich Document Metadata - including Name, Title, Description, Mimetype, and Tags
  
• Version Control - Simple update process, major/minor versions, version comments, 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
  

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, Drafts, Latest, Published Internally/Externally, and Published Date
  
• 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
  
• Event Tagging - Tagging and filtering of events
  
• iCal Support - Add calendar entries to email clients
  

Site Component - Discussions

• Threaded Discussions - Post topic and replies
  
• Dynamic Filtering - Tags/New/Most Active/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 versioned
  
• Redirect on Rename - Automatic redirect links when the target page has been renamed
  

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 using Yahoo YUI Library
  
• Drag and Drop Layouts
  
• Thumbnails and Flash Previews
  
• Dynamic Panel Resizing
  
• User-friendly URLs
  

Enterprise Edition
3.0
Getting Started
SharePoint
Surf Platform
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