alfresco mobile webinar 11 1-11

Alfresco MobileLevel Up Again, Technical Deep Dive

Ryan McVeigh, Director, rmcveigh@ziaconsulting.com

Gi Lee, Principal Consultant, gi.lee@ziaconsulting.com

Mike Muller, Director, mmuller@ziaconsulting.com

04/12/2023 www.ziaconsulting.com 303.443.4004 x203

• Ryan McVeigh• Director @ Zia• Responsible for Zia’s ECM Practice• CMIS Secretary and Technical Editor

• Gi Lee• Principal Consultant @ Zia• Architect of Alfresco Mobile and Zia’s Fresh Docs products• CMIS Committee Member

• Michael Muller• Director @ Zia• Zia Fresh Docs Inventor and Product Manager

Who are we?

Who is Zia?A firm with deep technical expertise & strategic insight, coupled with our Agile software methodology, provides numerous benefits to our customers:

Benefits• Achieve ROI by delivering improved operational efficiencies

• Boost productivity by creating collaborative work environments

• Maintain access and control of information through the enterprise

• Allow employees to find the information they need, when they need it

• Increase end-user adoption

• Agile training by using Zia methodology and Rally tools

• Raving fan customers

Professional Qualifications• Highly-experienced, accredited senior staff consisting of Business Analysts,

Enterprise Architects, Software Engineers and Data Architects

• Platinum Alfresco Professional Services & OEM Partner

• Platinum Ephesoft Partner

• Alfresco 2010 Implementation of the Year with Denver

• IBM, WeWebU and MuleSoft Partners

Our Partners

Agenda

• Alfresco Mobile History • Architecture Overview• CMIS Refresher• Demo• Technical Deep Dive• Open Source Project• Roadmap & What’s Next?• Questions?

Alfresco Mobile History

• Zia released Fresh Docs for iOS in December 2009

• Android application also available• Alfresco and Zia partnership entered this year

for Alfresco Mobile

Architecture Overview

• Mostly a CMIS application talking to Alfresco• Several features specific to Alfresco

Alfresco

CMIS

REST

CMIS Refresher

• CMIS TC Goals & Scope• Enable applications to target different ECM

repositories uniformly• Provide a set of basic services enabling richer ECM

applications and use cases• All for loose coupling of an ECM application on the

underlying repository• Use popular protocol bindings

• REST / AtomPub• Web Services / SOAP

Demo

• Alfresco Mobile in Action – A Few Features• CMIS:

• Login to Alfresco over HTTP or HTTPS• Browse, Search, Display Content and Edit Metadata,

Upload Media• Create Folders

• Alfresco• Alfresco Activities• Like & Unlike, Comment on Documents

• iOS• Local Downloads• Multi Tasking

Design

• Navigation-based application to browse a CMIS Repository

• Universal Binary

iPhone UI Design

Simple Layout• Navigation Bar• Custom View• Tab Bar

iPhone UI Components

UITabBarController• Composed of a container for

a tab bar and a custom view• Each “tab” contains a

custom view

iPhone UI Components

UINavigationController• Each “tab” contains it’s own

instance a UINavigationController

• Used for navigating hierarchical content

• It’s a Stack!

iPhone UI Components

Custom View• UITableViewController

– Activities, Documents, Search, Downloads, Metadata, Comments, Upload Form, …

• UIViewController– Document Preview & About

View

iPad UI Design• Maintain the same navigation-

based feel as the iPhone• Use familiar usage patterns• Use Split View provided by iOS

SDK– Container that manages

two side-by-side view controllers

– Master-Detail Interface

Split View Master

Split View Master• Uses the same controllers as the iPhone

interface• Portrait: Uses a UIPopover• Landscape: Static Container

Split View Detail

Split View Detail• Contains a single UINavigationController that

controls the Navigation Stack of the view

Repository Features

Feature to CMIS Servicevia AtomPub Binding

Feature CMIS ServiceBrowse &Company Home

getChildren

Download Document getContentStreamMetadata getTypeDefinitionSearch QueryUpload createDocument

Feature to Alfresco Servicevia Alfresco’s RESTful API

Feature Alfresco Service

Activities Feed Activity Service

View & Add Tags Tagging Service

Comments Comment Service

Like a Document Rating Service

Sites List Site ServicePreference ServicePerson Service

In-Depth Review

• Sequence of actions that occur from App Launch to loading of the Documents (Browse) tab.

• CMIS Search Queries• Creating a RESTful HTTP Request for a CMIS

AtomPub Service

Review: App Launch to Loading of Documents Tab

1. (CMIS) App Launch: Request AtomPub Service Document– Service Document XML is returned and parsed in RepositoryInfo

objects

2. (Alfresco) Request Sites and parse the JSON response into RepositoryItem objects

– Request Site Collection using Site Service– Request Favorite Sites using Preference Service– Request My Sites using Person Service

3. (CMIS) If Company Home is ON, request the folder children of the Root Collection

– Atom Feed XML is returned and parsed into RepositoryItem objects

Review: CMIS Search QueriesCMIS full-text search query:

SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS(‘keywords’)

CMIS query on cmis:name property:SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS('~cmis:name:\\’*keywords*\\'')

– CMIS does not have the ability for case insensitive queries. LOWER() nor UPPER() predicate are not available

In-Depth Review:Creating an ObjectById HTTP Request

At a High Level:1. Parse out the ObjectById template URL from the

service document

2. Create a new class that extends ASIHTTPRequest• Add an initialize method• Implement delegate methods requestFinished:

and requestFailed:

Review in XCode

• Project Structure in XCode• Steps Running Alfresco Mobile in the

simulator• Running the GHUnit unit tests

Requirements to Get Started

• Mac OSX with Snow Leopard or Lion• Apple iOS Developer Account• Latest Version of XCode 4• Git• Objective-C & iOS Programming• Alfresco’s RESTful API• Alfresco’s RESTful CMIS AtomPub Binding

Open Source• Hosted on Bitbucket

http://bit.ly/rrNdTc• Search for “alfresco-mobile”

at bitbucket.org

• Released under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

Alfresco Mobile 1.1 source code release by end of the week!

Roadmap

• Features under future consideration• Browse Site Members• Search and Browse for People• Version History and Upload New Versions• Browse Recent Docs• More…

• Alfresco Mobile Product Manager• Marc Dubresson• marc.dubresson@alfresco.com

Disclaimer: Neither Alfresco nor Zia are making any claims or commitments to deliver these features.

What’s Next?

• Alfresco 1.1 coming any day

• Code is Open Source• Happy to have contributors

• Alfresco will coordinate releases of Alfresco Mobile

• Zia will coordinate releases of Fresh Docs

• If you want to release to the Apple App Store, contact us

Contact Us

• Ryan McVeigh – ECM Business Owner:• rmcveigh@ziaconsulting.com

• Gi Lee – Fresh Docs Architect• gi.lee@ziaconsulting.com

• Michael Muller – Fresh Docs PM• mmuller@ziaconsulting.com