get ready for alfresco 4
DESCRIPTION
Review of new features coming in Alfresco 4. Hear how the new interface supports drag and drop upload. Alfresco now supports Social Channel Publishing, allowing users to publish to YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. Now includes Activiti and Apache Solr.TRANSCRIPT
Get Ready forAlfresco 4
Paul Hampton
• Features that make Alfresco easier to use
• Features that provide Social Content Management support
• Features that make Alfresco easier to deploy and manage
Usability
Question?
• How do you make it easier to…add contentfind content and use content?
Uploading Content
• Support drag and drop uploado Drag from desktopo Drop on to folders
• Improved parallel upload• Support drag and drop
moveo Drag files to the folder
tree, folders or the breadcrumb
• HTML5 enabled browsers
Get D&D move screen shot off Paul
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Finding Content
• Sort folder viewo By name, type,
rating…
• Inline edit of propertieso Nameo Tags
Viewing Content
• Redesigned UIo More room for
previewo Toggle actions,
properties, tags, etc.
• Support more formatso Preview Video and
Audioo Support for Apple
iWorks files
Site Administration
• Drag and drop setup of components
• Rename components• Brand sites• Improved help
o Default texto Help bubbles
Other Enhancements
• Improved calendar• Create from template• TinyMCE link to page• Geotag linked to
Google maps • Google Docs
Social Content Management
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
Social Features – Ratings and Commenting
• Ability to ‘like’ content
• Sort content by ratingso Find highly rated
content
• Comment counts• Rewind version tree
Social Features – Notifications
• Proactive notificationso Uses HTML templates
(localized)o Can be customized (in
repo)o Activity feed, following
and WF tasks
• Personal preferenceso Op-in/out
• New activity dashleto Multiple optionso New filers
Social Features – Publishing
• Support two typeso Contento Status updates
• Support for o Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, and Flickro Can be extended
• Define ‘Channels’o Multiple channels for
each service
Publish
Social Publishing
• Administrationo Define the channelso Define credentials
• Java API to build automation
• Usero Select contento New action ‘Publish’o Select channel(s)o View publishing
history
Administration
Web Administration
• Admin consoleo Tag and category
managerso Channels and Workflow
management
Enterprise
Community
New Alfresco Index Server
• Replace Lucene• More scalable
solution• Separate Solr index
servero Remove load from
Alfresco servers
• Solr index used for search
Lucene vrs. Solr
I I I
DB FS
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DB FS SOLR
Solr Support
• Customer can choose either Lucene or Solr
• Typical upgrade processo Install Alfresco 4.0o Configure SOLRo Run Solr indexo Switch off Lucene
• Fine grain control over what gets indexed
• ‘Eventually Consistent’
• Client supporto Alfresco Explorero Alfresco Shareo WebDAVo FTPo MS SharePointo CIFS
• RM will follow 4.0
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
Activiti Admin
• Deploy
Processes
WCM
• Web Quick Starto Publish to file systemo Also DM to file system
• Multilingual web site supporto Mark an asset / section as
translatableo Edit the locales available
on a particular websiteo See the translations of a
given asset / sectiono Create a new translation
of a translatable asset / section
o Edit a translation of a translatable asset / section
Availability
• End September 2011o Alfresco Community 4.0.a – Available for
download
• November o Alfresco Enterprise 4 Beta –
http://svy.mk/Beta4Alfresco
• Mid December 2011o Alfresco Enterprise 4o Alfresco Team 4
• Q1 2012o Alfresco Records Management 4
Alfresco 4
• Easier to Use
• Supports Social Content Management
• Easier to manage and deploy
Mobile
Mobile Features
• Find contento Browse sites and folderso Search
• View contento View file information
• Download to deviceo Open in app
• Favorites• Send content to others• Comment• Upload content
(WebDAV)
Questions?
Paul [email protected]
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