FlexSpaces+Browser is a RIA client for Alfresco that runs in browsers (FireFox, IE, Safari, Chrome, etc. with flash player). FlexSpaces+AIR is a RIA client for Alfresco using Adobe AIR (with additional desktop drag/drop features).
Clients supported: FlexSpaces+Browser and FlexSpaces+AIR are supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Servers supported: Alfresco Enterprise Edition and Alfresco Labs/Community supported (2.1 - 3.x)
General Features: * Tree and single or dual folders views (doc lib and wcm) * Icon,Grid,Thumbnail and Coverflow view modes in doc lib, search, tasks, and wcm * Drag/Drop/Cut/Copy/Paste with multiple selection (drag drop between dual folder views)
* Properties dialog, Upload multiple files dialog, download dialogs * Create Space dialog, Create content (html,xml, text) dialogs * Checkin, checkout, cancel checkout, edit, update existing * Make PDF, Make Flash Preview, viewing in tabs * Start Workflow, task dashboard, approve/reject * Advanced search (all web client features except for save search, custom attribute config) * Tag cloud and category tree search navigation, tags/categories view/edit dialog
* Some XML configuration of menus, more configuration support in general coming
* 5 page site Surf components are available for running views of FlexSpaces in Alfresco Share 3.0
AIR features * Native drag/drop/copy/paste of desktop files into doc mgt and wcm folders * Built-in local files view also with drag/drop into doc mgt / wcm folders * Making files (multiple selection) available offline, update from offline (single select) * Additional tab with built-in browser running Share 3.0 UI (or any web page)
FlexSpaces was developed with Adobe Flex 3 and ActionScript 3 on the clientside. ActionScript is now a more Java like and more object oriented JavaScript. Flex provides declarative layout in XML based MXML. (Also with Flex/Flash you don't have to worry about different browsers / different versions of browsers like you do with Ajax). FlexSpaces (+AIR and +Browser) source is available including FlexBulder3 project files. FlexSpaces can be customized, UI components and Cairngorm based events/cmds/delegates (non UI api) from FlexSpaces can be used in other Flex applications.
On the serverside, a large library of RESTful JavaScript Web Scripts returning XML data was developed (source available). These web scripts can be used independently in any kind of application (Flex, Java, etc.) that can call REST apis.
Includes things beyond the 0.6 release: 1. UI strings in resource bundles / properties files (thanks to Nuno Barrocas / OKHA Networks) 2. Spanish translation (thanks to Nuno Barrocas / OKHA Networks) 3. paging support in folder views, search results 4. play video component 5. FlexSpacesAir has browser tab for Share (or other web page) (note: for blog/wiki saving needs share in air final fix from 10/2/08, coming in alfresco labs 3c) 6. type arg added to uploadNew web script
1. UI strings in resources, Spanish translation (thanks Nuno Barrocas / OKHA Networks), German translation (thanks May Computer), Japanese translation (thanks Tetsuya Suga). (Flexspaces currently only built with English set of resource bundles. source code has all four languages)
2. The locale specific dir for a set of menu xml files to load can be configured (without recompile) by setting default-locale in alfresco-config.xml
3. Added paging support in folder views, search results
4. Added play video support (only avail from context menu, which is always enabled) will launch video in a new tab view with play, stop, pause buttons
5. Added support for Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES
6. Added version history panel in DocLib view (not in WCM view) which shows versions of selected doc (if made versionable). View / Version History menu toggles panel on/off
7. tree fixes (select by path not name), refresh when add or delete folder
9. Although mainly support flash 9.x player, did some testing with flash 10 player. Only issue: edit does checkout + download with flash 9.x player. With flash 10.x player, edit will only do the checkout. Can still do the download as a separate step with flash 10.x player.
10. Tested with released version of Alfresco Enterprise 3.0
11. FlexSpacesAir has added browser tab running Share (can also be used for running other web pages). Previously this feature was a separate experimental download
HOWTO: Add support for Thumbnails and CoverFlow in FlexSpaces on Alfresco 2.x and Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES using the Thumbnails project from the Alfresco Forge
"Here is a sneak peak video of semantic auto-tagging and multiple semantic tag clouds coming in the next release of FlexSpaces+AIR / FlexSpaces+Browser. This uses the Calais Integration Alexander and I have been working on, the Open Calais service, and Alfresco. The Calais integration auto-tag action can also be used from the "run action" UI in the Alfresco web client (now called Explorer)."
"Things in the works: Flex UI for tag suggestions, storing URIs in the integration for future linked data use, storing geo-location info from Calais 3.1, and map UI to display geo-location points to filter search results."
I just tried a quick test of running FlexSpaces+Browser in a Liferay IFrame portlet. It worked! All features of flexspaces worked: Doc library, search, tasks, wcm views Drag/drop of files between dual panes, internal cut/copy/paste between spaces File upload, File download, file viewing, preview, play video Checkin, checkout, edit, cancel checkout, upate, make versionable, version history panel Icon, thumbnail, grid list, cover flow view modes Search, advanced search, tag cloud, category navigation Create space, propertes edit, tags/categories edit Make pdf, make flash, start workflow Coming flexspaces 0.8 features using Calais integration (auto-tag, manual semantic tag properties edit, multiple semantic tag clouds)
New blog post with screencam video of FlexSpaces 0.8 (which is ready for release). This new screencam shows auto-tagging, semi-automatic tag suggesting, multiple semantic tag clouds, and automatic geo-location tagging (displayed on a google map). It uses the Calais Integration forge project for Alfresco and the Open Calais service.
