Get Ready for Alfresco 4.0

Get Ready forAlfresco 4.0Paul 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 content find content and use content?

Uploading Content
Support drag and drop upload
Drag from desktop
Drop on to folders
Improved parallel upload
Support drag and drop move
Drag files to the folder tree, folders or the breadcrumb
HTML5 enabled browsers
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Finding Content
Sort folder view
By name, type, rating…
Inline edit of properties
Name
Tags
Screen Shot
Folder sorting and inline edit

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

Site Administration
Drag and drop setup of components
Rename components
Brand sites
Improved help
Default text
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 ratings
Find highly rated content
Comment counts
Rewind version tree

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

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

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

Administration

Web Administration
License warnings
Admin console
Tag and category managers
Channels and Workflow management
Community
Enterprise

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

Lucenevrs. SOLR
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SOLR Support
Customer can choose either Lucene or SOLR
Typical upgrade process
Install Alfresco 4.0
Configure SOLR
Run SOLR index
Switch off Lucene
Fine grain control over what gets indexed
‘Eventually Consistent’
Client support
Alfresco Explorer
Alfresco Share
WebDAV
FTP
MS SharePoint
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 Start
Publish to file system
Also DM to file system
Multilingual web site support
Mark an asset / section as translatable
Edit the locales available on a particular website
See the translations of a given asset / section
Create a new translation of a translatable asset / section
Edit a translation of a translatable asset / section

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

Availability
End September 2011
Alfresco Community 4.0
Mid December 2011
Alfresco Enterprise 4.0
Alfresco Team 4.0
Q1 2012
Alfresco Records Management 4.0

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

Mobile

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

Questions?
Paul Hampton
Paul.Hampton@Alfresco.Com

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