Alfresco Template Feb 2011

1. Get Ready for
Alfresco 4.0
Paul Hampton

2. • Features that make Alfresco easier to use
• Features that provide Social Content
Management support
• Features that make Alfresco easier to
deploy and manage

3. Usability

4. Question?
• How do you make it easier to…
add content
find content
and use content?

5. Uploading Content
• Support drag and drop
upload
o Drag from desktop
o Drop on to folders
• Improved parallel upload
• Support drag and drop
move
o Drag files to the folder tree,
folders or the breadcrumb
• HTML5 enabled browsers
Get D&D move
screen shot off Paul
HH

6. Finding Content
• Sort folder view
o By name, type,
rating…
• Inline edit of
properties
o Name
o Tags
Screen Shot
Folder sorting and
inline edit

7. Viewing Content
• Redesigned UI
o More room for preview
o Toggle actions,
properties, tags, etc.
• Support more formats
o Preview Video and
Audio
o Support for Apple
iWorks files

8. Site Administration
• Drag and drop setup
of components
• Rename components
• Brand sites
• Improved help
o Default text
o Help bubbles

9. Other Enhancements
• Improved calendar
• Create from template
• TinyMCE link to page
• Geotag linked to
Google maps
• Google Docs

10. Social Content Management

11. Social Features – Followers
• Follow influential
people
• Use search to find
people to follow
• Activities – what are
they doing
• Private following list
• Find out who is
following you

12. Social Features – Ratings and Commenting
• Ability to ‘like’
content
• Sort content by
ratings
• Find highly rated
content
• Comment counts
• Rewind version tree

13. Social Features – Notifications
• Proactive notifications
o Uses HTML templates
(localized)
o Can be customized (in
repo)
o Activity feed, following and
WF tasks
• Personal preferences
o Op-in/out
• New activity dashlet
o Multiple options
o New filers

14. Social Features – Publishing
• Support two types
o Content
o Status updates
• Support for
o Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, and Flickr
o Can be extended
• Define ‘Channels’
o Multiple channels for
each service
Publish

15. Social Publishing
• Administration
o Define the channels
o Define credentials
• Java API to build
automation
• User
o Select content
o New action ‘Publish’
o Select channel(s)
o View publishing history

16. Administration

17. Web Administration
• License warnings
• Admin console
o Tag and category
managers
o Channels and Workflow
management
Enterprise
Community

18. New Index Server – SOLR
• Replace Lucene
• More scalable
solution
• Separate SOLR index
server
o Remove load from
Alfresco servers
• SOLR index used for
search

19. Lucene vrs. SOLR
I I I
DB FS
I I
DB FS SOLR

20. SOLR Support
• Customer can choose
either Lucene or SOLR
• Typical upgrade
process
o Install Alfresco 4.0
o Configure SOLR
o Run SOLR index
o Switch off Lucene
• Fine grain control over
what gets indexed
• ‘Eventually Consistent’
• Client support
o Alfresco Explorer
o Alfresco Share
o WebDAV
o FTP
o MS SharePoint
o CIFS
• RM will follow 4.0

21. Activiti Workflow
• Designed by Tom
Baeyens (founder of
the open source BPM
engine jBPM)
• Option to use Activiti,
jBPM or both
• Apache licensed with
support for BPMN 2.0
standard
• Designer for Enterprise

22. Activiti Admin
• Deploy

23. Processes

24. WCM
• Web Quick Start
o Publish to file system
o Also DM to file system
• Multilingual web site
support
o Mark an asset / section as
translatable
o Edit the locales available
on a particular website
o See the translations of a
given asset / section
o Create a new translation of
a translatable asset /
section
o Edit a translation of a
translatable asset / section

25. Something for the Developers
• Forms Service
o Action forms – Configuration only forms
• Extensibility
o Config to switch on and off features / menus
o Drop in custom extensions to the UI (admin UI)
o OpenCMIS with Surf/Share
o Allows for simple upgrades in the future
• Model Management
o Configuration based display of properties in list view
o Multilingual label support (constraints)
o Encrypting properties
Example: RM now
and extension

27. Availability
• End September 2011
o Alfresco Community 4.0
• Mid December 2011
o Alfresco Enterprise 4.0
o Alfresco Team 4.0
• Q1 2012
o Alfresco Records Management 4.0

28. Alfresco 4.0
• Easier to Use
• Supports Social Content Management
• Easier to manage and deploy

29. Mobile

30. Mobile Features
• Find content
o Browse sites and folders
o Search
• View content
o View file information
• Download to device
o Open in app
• Favorites
• Send content to others
• Comment
• Upload content
(WebDAV)

31. Questions?
Paul Hampton
Paul.Hampton@Alfresco.Com

32. The open platform for
social content management.