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Sample Types and Aspect - Config Files

Back in January I posted a blog about how powerful the Aspect feature was in Alfresco. It included two videos – one showing how to apply an aspect and one showing how to search on an aspect. A number of people have asked about getting access to my co...

The Power of Alfresco Content Replication

One of the new features delivered in Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 is the ability to replicate content between servers. Introducing this new feature has made me remember a project I worked on back in 1995. At the time I was at Documentum and working with a...

The Versatility of Alfresco Aspects

Recently I was having a conversation with Alan Weintraub, Principal Analyst at Forrester. We were discussing the importance of building the right taxonomy for managing content. Both of us have been in the content management business longer than we ca...

Refreshing Web Scripts from Ant

I've always been a big fan of using Ant to automate some of the more mundane tasks such as building packages, when developing Share add-ons like the 20 now available on Share Extras, and the Sample Dashlet project now hosted on there now provides a t...

Webinar: Subsistemas de autenticação em Alfresco (em espanhol)

Interessante Webinar do meu parceiro Toni de la Fuente (Alfresco, Espanha), acerca dos subsistemas de autenticação em Alfresco (em espanhol).Para visualizar o Webinar:http://www.vimeo.com/22075313Resumos subsistemas de Alfresco permitem mais controle...

New Additions to Share Extras

In the run-up to Alfresco's Kick Off event in Orlando at the end of March, I spent a bit of time adding some new items into Share Extras and tweaking some of the existing add-ons. Now with the presentation done and the slides up on SlideShare, I thou...

Installing a new license (Talk)

The instructions for installing on Tomcat 6.0 tell you to create the folder<TOMCAT_HOME>/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/licenseBUT then tell you to 'Follow the instructions in 'How to install on Tomcat 5.5' below', creating the following folder an...

From Web Scripts to Portlets with Alfresco 3.4

Since Alfresco 3.2r the ProxyPortlet support in Alfresco Share has allowed developers to easily embed specific bits of Share functionality into a portal such as Liferay, using only a small amount of XML configuration to wire in existing web scripts.T...

Resumen del Kickoff de Alfresco en Orlando

(por Toni De La Fuente)Del 23 al 25 de marzo estuvimos en Orlando con motivo del Kickoff 2011 de Alfresco, este tipo de reuniones, que se hacen anualmente, sirven para reunir gran parte de la plantilla de Alfresco y partners de todo el mundo que quis...

Spring Surf and OpenCMIS Integration Part 2

Back in March I wrote about a prototype integration between Spring Surf and OpenCMIS.Spring Surf provides a scriptable approach to building web applications. OpenCMIS provides a Java client library for accessing any CMIS compliant content repository....

Refreshing Site Tags in Share

Sometimes the site tag data used in Share's document library can get out of sync with the tags on the content itself, especially in older versions of the 3.x product.I came across this today on the Partner Sales Enablement site that we've just launch...

Outbound E-mail Configuration (Talk)

MrogersDesign notes on configuring Java Properties via JMX.mail.properties Property needs to implement ListFactoryBeanmail.properties=mail.smtpwhatever, mail.smtp.rhubarb, mail.smtp.custardmail.properties.mail.smtpwhatever=false;mail.properties.mail....

Auditing (from V3.4) (Talk)

At some time is all of this going to be incorporated into the user interface? If so what is the time frame?Derek Hulley: There are no audit log views for Share, but the DOD5015 module uses the APIs to present its audit log.

Backup and Restore (Talk)

The article seems too simple. What are the requirements for this to work? Are there dependencies that restrict the recovery platform? For instance, does the version have to match? What if the server name(s) is/are different?Start alfresco before load...

Open Document Format (ODF) Plug Fest

On Friday I was asked to present at the OpenDoc Society’s ODF plug fest in Maidenhead. The plug fest seemed to be the presentation equivalent of speed dating, with each of the attendees given 10 minutes to cover an aspect of ODF.There were a number o...

What's in a date?

A quick tour of Alfresco support to query date and date time properties. By default, Alfresco treats date and datetime properties the same. Both are indexed and queried to a resolution of day. The index actually stores the date string as yyyy-MM-dd, ...

Alfresco 30 Day Trial - Sample Data

Trialling Alfresco Enterprise? Want some sample data to kick-start your evaluation?Well now you can install the same sample data that is used on the hosted trial system.For some time now we have been running a hosted trail of Alfresco in the cloud. T...

Importing and Exporting Share sites

I managed to get a bit of time on my flight to Lisbon the other day to make a few last changes to a tool I've been working on on and off for the last few weeks, to provide a standard way of loading (and dumping) the contents of Share sites for demons...

ADW FAQ (Talk)

This feature is very important, the current Alfresco WCM Web UI is very convoluted and way to complex for the average business user, in my experience this has been the failing point in most Enterprise WCM systems and Alfresco WCM out of the box UI do...

Web Quick Start enhancements in 3.4.c

Alfresco 3.4.c Community release has just been released, and there are a few enhancements to Web Quick Start that are worth a mention.Word-to-HTML conversion A new rendering engine has been plugged in that takes .docx files and renders them into nice...

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