2. • Features that make Alfresco easier to use
• Features that provide Social Content
Management support
• Features that make Alfresco easier to
deploy and manage
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
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
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
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
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
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)
30. Alfresco DevCon 2011
San Diego, 26-27 Oct & London, 9-10 Nov
Use ‘DevCon11Web’
Save $50 (€36 or £31)
on conference registration at
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/devcon
