whats new in alfresco community 3.4
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Slide deck to accompany the recent webinar of the same nameTRANSCRIPT
What’s New in Alfresco Community 3.4Alfresco Community 3.4
Paul HamptonDirector of Product Marketing
2010 Second Half Plans
● Alfresco Community / Enterprise 3.4
o Alfresco Web Quick Start
o Alfresco WCM for Spring
o Replication Services
o Update to Alfresco Share
● Application Extensions
o Portal Integration
o XAM Content Store Support
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New Web Functionality
● WCM Collaboration
● Alfresco Web Quick Start
● WCM Process Control● WCM Process Control
● WCM Services for Spring
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WCM Collaboration
● Editorial management via Alfresco Share and Alfresco Web Editor (AWE)o Full enterprise process support – manage the review /
approval process – ‘Office to Web’
o Rich collaboration environment o
o In-context authoring and editing
o Support for CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, and CMIS
● Web producer o Site creation and configuration
o Easy navigation config
o Content Collections (static and dynamic)4
Web Quick Start
● Example implementationo Best practice example
o Written in Spring MVC, Spring Surf, OpenCMIS
● Combines the power of Share with OOTB templateo Workflow, team collaboration, web configurationo Workflow, team collaboration, web configuration
● Industry focused templates for...o Government
o Media and Entertainment
o Finance
● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.4 and 3.3
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Architecture
Quick StartWeb Application
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Quick Start Website API
OpenCMIS
Easy navigation
Image Carousel
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Dynamic or static lists
navigation configuration
Process Control
● Advanced Workflow (for both Share and WCM)
o Exposed via collaboration environment
● Based on jBPM
● New Dashlets● New Dashlets
o Inbox
o My Tasks – Filter by date, priority, assignee, workflow type, etc.
● Start workflow without content
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Workflow – Screen Shots
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Start Workflow Manage Workflow
Filters
WCM Services for Spring
● Integrates enterprise content with the webo Single content store for DM, RM, Collaboration and WCM
● Unified content services
o End to End solution – Authoring to Delivery
o Rich Content Modelling – Associations, Behaviours, Aspects, Rules/Actions and Constraints
o Transformation service with rendition support (images and text)
o Transfer services for content publishing / delivery
o CMIS runtime for content delivery
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WCM Development
● Development platform
o Standards support – Spring, Spring Surf, CMIS, Java, REST
o Lightweight scripting – Speed of development
Enterprise scale content serviceso Enterprise scale content services
o Extensible (unrestricted) platform
● Spring developers tools
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More Information...
● Install and Configuration
o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Installation_and_Configuration
● Developers Guide
o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Developer_Guide
● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki & Search for ‘Quick Start’
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Content Replication
● Distributed repository replicationo Selective replication of spaces, content and rules
o Support for full, incremental and delete
o One source – multiple destinations
o Replicas are read-onlyo Replicas are read-only
o Update at source only (re-direct if needed)
● Benefitso Provide fast local access
o Remove single point of failure
o Reduce wide area network traffic
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Content Replication
Regional Office Regional OfficeHead Office
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SOP
Copy Local Content
SOP
Copy Local Content
SOP
Master Local Content
Alfresco Share - Search
● Both Simple and Advanced
● Can search for...
o Folders / Containers
o Content (all types)o Content (all types)
o Custom types (example ‘Contract’)
o Aspects (example ‘customer = ACME’)
o Application specific (example ‘Contract and customer = ACME’)
● Extensible via forms
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Search – Screen Shots
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Alfresco Share Enhancements
● Redesigned UI / Toolbar
o Improved usability
o Ease of customisation and localisation
● Social and Collaboration● Social and Collaboration
o User status – What are you working on
● New Permissions
o Who can create sites
o Who can see ‘public’ sites
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Alfresco Share – UI Redesign
3.4
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3.3
Extensible Menu StatusUpdate
Optimized Database Mapping
● Architecture Change – Remove Hibernateo Native Alfresco schema database mapping and cache
o Optimized for Alfresco
o Improved control of cache (tuned to Alfresco DB)
o Improvements in reliability and performanceo Improvements in reliability and performance
● OEM friendly license
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Document Library for Portals
● DocLib Portlet for JSR168 Portals
● Portlets provides access to...
o DM repository
o Share Siteso Share Sites
● Access full DM functions
● Single sign on (SSO)● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.3 and 3.4
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Portlet – Screen Shot
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XAM Content Connector
● A solution for ‘Fixed Content’ –content that will never be changed
● Extend Alfresco o Use Content Addressable Storage
o Support the XAM compliant storeso Support the XAM compliant stores
o Developed and QA’ed against EMC Centera
o Designed to work with solutions from EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi, Sun, etc.
● Alfresco Enterprise only feature
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Localisation
● Alfresco driven local language packs
o French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese
● Use existing language packs
o Professional translatorso Professional translators
o Native language reviewers
● Improved consistency and terminology
● Will be released with Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
● Will be available for Alfresco Community 3.4
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● Portal Integration
o Alfresco Community 3.4 Released
o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in
Application Extensions
Timing
● Alfresco Community 3.4
o Released
● Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
Core Alfresco
o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in QA
● XAM Content Connector
o TBC
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Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
o Mid December
● Alfresco Web Quick Start (for 3.3)
o Early October
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