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The Case for Killing 'WCM'

As if the gaudy Christmas lights, crass inflatable Santas and disturbing illuminated mechanical deer weren't enough, CMS Watch have loudly proclaimed the start of the silly season with their annual prognostication on the state of CMS for the coming y...

Configuring Alfresco as a Windows Service (Talk)

REDIRECT Windows Service HOW-TO

Windows Service HOW-TO (Talk)

The Alfresco.bat file sets the path for Netbios32 it should be explained here.There is a bug in the file C:\Alfresco\tomcat\bin\service.bat, it does not set the PermGen options correctly.Open the file and edit line 123 as follows:'%EXECUTABLE%' //US/...

The Future of CMS Technologies

Julian Wraith recently started a discussion entitled 'The future of content management' that has kicked off quite a few interesting responses.Of those, the one that really grabbed my attention was Justin Cormack's great response entitled 'CMS technol...

Alfresco Community Edition 3.3g Release Notes (Talk)

I would like to see a page that indexed these release notes. Ideally each download page should list (or link to) its release notes:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Alfresco_Community_NetworkBut there should also be a link to older releases, eac...

CMIS 1.0 is Ready for Use in Alfresco 3.3

I've been working on CMIS at Alfresco for a very long time. After more than two years of specification definition, product development and preview releases, I can finally say 'go ahead, build your applications on Alfresco CMIS, it's ready for use'.A ...

WCM Candidate Feature Sets (Talk)

Mrogers 14:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC) Can we think about the packaging of WCM. For example how we install the authoring environment and what services we need (or don't need) on the runtime environment.

Disabling 'Configure Workflow'

By default, the Alfresco WCM UI allows an author to select a different workflow and even reconfigure it at submission time, as shown in the following screenshot:[caption id='attachment_243' align='aligncenter' width='500' caption='Screenshot: Configu...

Timed Deployment

While Alfresco WCM contains a sophisticated deployment engine, the options for initiating deployment are rather more limited, comprising the manual 'Deploy Snapshot' function in the Explorer UI, and the automatic 'Auto Deploy' function that can be co...

Access the Repository Browser from Alfresco Share

One of the new features included in Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2r (released 16th February 2010) is the ability for Alfresco Share to browse the Alfresco Repository (repo). I have run a number of webinars recently and have demonstrated this new fea...