Hyland Connect

Workflow in v1.4 Alfresco

There are claims that one of our product weak points is Workflow even though workflow in conjunction with rules and actions has been a unique feature of the Alfresco product since first release.Although our current workflow offering is very simple to...

Not yet a year, but almost!

Believe it or not, Alfresco (source code and all) was released into the wild on June 27th 2005.The Alfresco Community born on that day will soon be 1 year old.  So, Happy Birthday.A year doesn't seem long enough to have developed the Alfresco product...

Development Environment (Talk)

REDIRECT Alfresco SVN Development Environment

A Narrow Escape

Jeff Waugh on how Ubuntu got it's name and avoided getting named after that funny station at the wrong end of the Picadilly Line.Incidentally, Dapper rocks! It seems the team have really used the extra six week period at the end of the development cy...

Client Help (Talk)

Good Day Iam new to Alfresco and would like to know how to1) create a space template from an existing space2) If editing a doc/file can be done without downloading it to the user PCI would appreciate any info you may have on the above. Thanks for you...

WCM: A stop-gap solution

One of the most eagerly anticipated features soon to be part of Alfresco it would seem, is our web content management capabilities. This functionality isn't just something that our customers are asking for, it's something that we desperately need int...

Powered by Alfresco

I've made more progress on the web content templating in Alfresco this week. I've really gotta think of a better name for it than that, but I'm dubious about dubbing it web content management as it's missing quite a lot from the set of WCM functional...

Calendaring with Alfresco

I spent some time today experimenting with Mozilla's Sunbird calendaring app, trying to build up a comprehensive list of all the events going on within Alfresco. There's a lot of stuff going on here at the moment but we don't yet have a single place ...

JSR-170 Podcast

Hot off the press is our latest podcast, featuring Dave Caruana talking to our Chief Marketing Officer Ian Howells about Alfresco's support for the standard. Dave is Alfresco's Chief Scientist and is a member of the JSR-283 committee.

Transparent Layers (Talk)

Blogs and email

It's been a few weeks since I last blogged. Since then, we've launched Alfresco Blogs and it's podcast-touting sibling Open Source Talk.Meanwhile over in California, Esther Dyson has some dangerous ideas about the future of email. Trying to be pragma...

Open Audio Goodness

Catching up on blogs seems to be all I've had time to do lately with the hecticness of work being as it is at the moment, but now I've discovered a way of absorbing the latest open source goings on while I get on with other things!Mirroring what we'r...

This Week... In Summary Form

Matt - working in a small company is new to me too. or at least it was two months ago. Now it's just that daily routine of getting as much stuff done in a day as you can that I have to deal with.This week the big event was undoubtedly yesterday's web...

Gmail goes corporate

Apparently the fantasticness of Gmail is soon to be available for business use, with Google now piloting the service within San Jose City College in San Jose, California. They're also accepting registrations from other organisations interested in tak...

Web mongering

Today we followed up our recent aquisition of alfresco.com with the quiet deployment of our two newly re-designed web sites.We've made a big effort to cater to two distinct audiences (call them markets, if you like) with the new sites. Our company si...

RBS go open source

ZDNet have a story today about a pretty big deployment of Zope that's going to be happenning at RBS. The article discusses how open source is slowly moving up into the application layer, previously a place filled with mostly proprietary apps.I've per...

We have lift off

Consider this a 'I've just set up my blog!' token post, that however old and experienced I get I can never resist writing, despite the fact that these kind of entries rarely contain any useful information at all.Setting up WordPress was less straight...

Application Requirements (Talk)

Preview Release 6 (Talk)

ImageMagick Configuration (Talk)

Hi,I had this problem on my Linux server (the ImageMagick error in the alfresco.log at startup) so I followed this help page but it isn't complete. On Linux you should change the name of the binary in the [your_tomcat_installation]/webapps/alfresco/W...