1. Introducing Fred
Welcome to XeniT – Alfresco Webinar
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Peter Morel, Business Development
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2. Overview Fred Webinar
• Introduction of XeniT
• What is Fred?
• Demo of Fred 1.0
• What is coming up in Fred 1.1 - demo
• What can we expect for the future
• The Fred model
• Contact
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3. Introducing XeniT
• Alfresco System integrator and Technology vendor
• A competent team with practical experience
• Service: consultancy, implementation, continued
support, training
• Main activities in Benelux
• Product development activities
IWT project: “smart documents”
Digital archiving: importing and management of large
(X millions) document repositories
E-Mail management solution
Smart Front Ends
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4. Who’s Fred?
Or rather what is Fred?
A desktop application
A window to Alfresco
An assistant making ECM easy for the users
Fun to work with
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5. Why Fred?
Available in a Explorer
Rich functionality of Alfresco like environment
Solution for
these combined
requirements? Usable everywhere
in the world
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6. Fred base technology
• Fred Front End and Back End
– Http protocol
– Web scripts
– SSO NTLM
– Proxy
• Fred FE min requirements
– Desktop
• OS: Windows XP SP2 or Vista SP1
• .Net framework 3.5
• 10 Mb of available disk space
– Outlook 2003
• PIA 2003 - Primary Interop Assemblies
– Outlook 2007
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7. Demo scenario
• Browsing Alfresco
• Managing folders
• Managing files
• Managing views
• Search Alfresco
• New features coming up
• Q&A
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8. Managing Folders
• Refresh
• Rename
• New folder
• Delete folder
• Set as root folder
• Show folder in browser
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9. Managing Files
• Open file • Add a document/mail
• Rename file • Add multiple files
• Move file • Outlook:
• Delete file – Respond to archived mail
• View metadata – Mail attachment handling
• Edit metadata • Show file in browser
• Refresh metadata
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10. Managing Views
• Add columns
• Removing columns
• Resizing columns
• Moving columns
• Sorting by columns
• Save view
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11. Search
• Text search
• Search in part of the repository
• Sorting on metadata
• Filter on metadata
• Grouping on metadata field
• Show file in tree folder
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12. New features in 1.1
• Versioning
• Lock document
• Create document from template and open in
C:Fred folder
• Multiple views
• Admin to see user rights
– View folder rights
– View user rights
• Lab demo
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13. Further down the road
• Fred loading your local documents to Alfresco
• Show my Tasks, my Activities, ...
• Enhanced use of document templates
• Enhanced features on document model, aspects and
metadata
• Continued enhancements in personalised experience
and usability
• Technology choices:
– Fred Mono compliant
– Fred CMIS complaint
• And many more practical features
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14. Benefits of Fred
• Tight integration into the working environment of
the user
• Uniform and simplified handling of documents in
multiple application
• Very few clicks for most common actions
• Simple but very powerful search
• Supports document quality enhancements
• Gradual focus shift from C:/ to Fred/Alfresco
• Easy jump to the Alfresco interface
• Available everywhere
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15. The Fred model
• Trial on the XeniT demo environment
– Register on www.xenit.eu
– 30 days functional experience
• Pilot on your Alfresco test environment
• CPU based subscription
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16. Contact
XeniT Solutions
Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 11
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
+32 16 891800 Mr Fred
sales@xenit.eu fred@xenit.eu
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17. … making document management easier
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