What’s New in Alfresco 3.3What’s New in Alfresco 3.3

Paul HamptonDirector of Product marketing

Alfresco

Enhancements in the Last Year

Records Mgmt & Compliance IMAP & Email Mgmt Forms & New Metadata

Greater Breadth in Share Support for Types and Aspects Portal Support & SSO

Extranet, Group & User Mgmt In-line Editing

Focus of Alfresco 3.3

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IntegrationWeb

Content Management

AlfrescoShare

Web Content Management

● New Alfresco Web Editor

● New content management and deployment options

● New Rendition API

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WebContent

Management

The Web Platform Vision

Alfresco Web Delivery Runtime Repository

CMIS, REST

Web Application

Alfresco WebProducer

Alfresco WebEditor

Alfresco WebPreview

Alfresco EditorialRepository

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Work Packages, Renditions

Content Services Platform for Web Applications

● Web Applications

o Custom web applications, leading frameworks, Alfresco content feeds and services

o Java – Spring / Surf

o .NET, PHP, cloud – Alfresco serviceso

● Straight Through Publishing

o Bulk loading, small changes, quick deployment and runtime performance

● Intranet and Portals

o Content-centric services to support collaboration, social context, records, search, etc.

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Alfresco Web Editor

● New in-context editing of web based content

● Allow ‘non-technical’ content authors to edit content from the website

● JavaScript Framework – Can be extended

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Sample Web Application

Header.html

Alfresco EditorialRepository

Web Browser

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Body.html

Nav.html

Greenenergy.jpg

Copyright.html

User can edit here... ... Or here

Component Management

● Can edit

o Online

o Download / Offline

o Via CIFS (Network Drive)

New – Inline Edit

Alfresco Web Editor Framework

ComponentEditingEdit from

selection list

Edit Content

Toggle Content Markers

Can toggle content markers

● Allow for content repurposing

● Automated content/format conversion for different

Rendition API

Deployment and Formatting

● Used to publish content to delivery servers

● Publish to Alfresco DM runtime

Transfer Service

conversion for different delivery channels

● Can string conversion steps for flexible content manipulation

● Support for existing Freemarker and XSLT templates

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runtime

● Maintains rich content structures, relationships

● Configurable permissions

● Support dynamic content, search and user developed content

Alfresco Share

● Move from Collaborative tool to complete DM● Repository wide access to

content (both Repository and Share Sites)Multiple navigation options

AlfrescoShare

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● Multiple navigation options

● Comprehensive DM features● Checkin, Checkout, Version

Control, ● Custom Types, Aspects and

Metadata● Full Permission Management

Navigation

● Users can navigate by:

o Documents filters

o Repository folders

o Document categories

o Content tags

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Security

● Added the ability to control permissions...

o Within the Repository

o AND Share Sites

Repository

● Provides a more granular security for project files

● New simple interface

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Share

Manage Permissions

Permissions Screen

Turn Off Inheritance

Select User

Set Role

Collaboration Lists

● Ability to track project based lists

● Examples:o Project Task Lists

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● List types can be extended

● Can page, sort and filter list content

o Project Task Lists

o Item Lists

o List of Event

o List of Locations

o Contact Lists

o Issue Log

Define New List

Create an Item

List View

Multiple lists per project

Rules and Actions

● New interface for managing Rules and Actions

● New Rule LibraryManage Rules from one

● Available for Share Sites and Repository

● Used to automatically perform actions on content o Manage Rules from one

location – update once

o Reuse Rules across multiple spaces

● Error handling

● Set Execution Order

content o Transform

o Move

o Copy

o Notify

o Drive storage policies

o ...and many more26

Define Rule

Transform content Transform content into PDF rendition...When content is created or added to this folder

Rule Summary

Order of Rules can be defined... Simply drag to set order

Linking an Existing Rule

Linked Rule

Can see which folders have rules applied

Google Like Search

● Can use Google like operators to search for content

● Can combine search criteria

● Examples:

o Type –type:document

o Property –modified:todaycriteria

o AND, OR, NOT

modified:today

o Date –created:“2009-01-01”

o Text –text:“alfresco faq”

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Example – name: plan

Example – modifier: phampton

Will return any object – Blog posts, Documents, Folders, Forum posts, Wiki pages, etc.

Example – name: plan ANDmodifier: phampton

Theme Management

● New Admin function to change theme

● Sample themes

o Default

o Green

o Yellow

o High Contrast

● Can add custom themes

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Integration

● Full CMIS 1.0 Specification

● Integration with IBM Social Software

Integration

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CMIS 1.0

● First implementation of CMIS 1.0 specification

● Includes:o CMIS Query

o Access Control Lists (ACL’s)

o Change Logs

o Renditions

o PLUS – Alfresco extension for Aspects (query, get and set)

● Available bindings – Web Services and REST

● CMIS test compatibility kit

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Seamless Integration with IBM Lotus

● Easy integration for document, image and records management

● Works with Notes, Quickr, Connections, XPage and Websphere Portal

Easy script-based portlet● Easy script-based portletand applet development

● Open to OS, DBMS, Language and Browser

● Domino and Java through Lotus services & CMIS

Benefits for Lotus Users

● Leader in Open Source Enterprise Content Management

● Easy to use, zero-footprint software for Files, Mail, Quickr and Connections – Just like a Shared Drive!

● Affordable control, access and discovery of enterprise contentcontent

● Content Application Server with fast script and Java development

● Low-cost, Open Source, Open Standards alternative to SharePoint

Publish to ECM

Notes Integration

Lotus Enterprise Explorer(via CMIS)

SharePoint Protocol Integration

Records Management“without the tears”

Summary

Alfresco 3.3 Availability

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IntegrationWeb

Content Management

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Community – Apr 2010Enterprise – May 2010