This document summarizes new features in Alfresco 4. It introduces enhancements that make Alfresco easier to use, support social content management, and make Alfresco easier to deploy and manage. Key features include drag and drop uploading, improved search capabilities, enhanced previewing of content formats, social features like content ratings and notifications, and using the Apache Solr search engine for improved scalability over Lucene. The new version also provides an optional Activiti workflow engine and expanded multilingual web content management capabilities.

1. Get Ready for
Alfresco 4
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, Get D&D move
folders or the breadcrumb screen shot off Paul
HH
• HTML5 enabled browsers

6. Finding Content
• Sort folder view
o By name, type,
rating…
• Inline edit of
properties
o Name
o Tags

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
o 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, Publish
YouTube, and Flickr
o Can be extended
• Define ‘Channels’
o Multiple channels for
each service

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

16. Administration

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

18. New Alfresco Index Server
• 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 I I
DB FS SOLR
DB FS

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

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 • Multilingual web site
o Publish to file system support
o Also DM to file system 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. Availability
• End September 2011
o Alfresco Community 4.0.a – Available for download
• November
o Alfresco Enterprise 4 Beta –
http://svy.mk/Beta4Alfresco
• Mid December 2011
o Alfresco Enterprise 4
o Alfresco Team 4
• Q1 2012
o Alfresco Records Management 4

26. Alfresco 4
• Easier to Use
• Supports Social Content Management
• Easier to manage and deploy

27. Mobile

28. 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)

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

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31. The open platform for
social content management.