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One hundred per cent

It's official: After years of dithering, Sun is releasing Java SE and Java ME under the GPLv2. Not their own CDDL, not the MPL, but the GNU General Public License itself with all of it's copyleft provisions. ZDNet UK have a good initial article on th...

WCM Forms Guide (Talk)

Russ: What other form types are you considering?

Tutorial Logging in (Talk)

I'm just getting started with Alfresco (WCM preview, Windows installer). Logging in as admin didn't put me to the Company Home as described here - it put me to 'My Alfresco Dashboard'. Had to click the Company Home link.

Developer/Innovator Notebooks (Talk)

This page doesnt seem to be getting much traction.. ok.. its not getting any traction. At liferay we have quite a few people contributing to concepts, brewing them in notebooks. There is some talk about moving the developer notebook pages off the l...

ECM Decomposition (Talk)

RDanner: Roles requires a relationship to the types under it. Something like General examples are:

Repository Configuration (Talk)

IssueUsing CATALINA_HOME as directory for the extension mappings fails to load Alfresco.SetupNetBeans5.0+Tomcat5.5, or another setup with Tomcat5.5 where CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE are separate.ResolutionUse CATALINA_BASE as directory for extens...

Configuring NTLM (Talk)

In the 1.2.1 distribution of Alfresco, the ntlm-authentication-context.xml file isn't included.

Creating Space Templates (Talk)

Is this supposed to be a cruel joke that there is nothing here?

Auto Scripts (Talk)

Can you talk a little about what an auto script is, what an auto action is and what they are useful for. Looks like its ver useful for creating black box regression testing but could have other really interesting uses.[Steve]It would probably help t...

Web Client Model Configuration Guide (Talk)

REDIRECT Displaying Custom Metadata

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.