10 Aug

Alfresco Features

Discussion about Alfresco for this time only related to the features and also the new features in Alfresco 5.0. As we know in Alfresco version 5.0 is pretty much change the look of interface and also the development of a pre-existing features, Check the following below for more details on the features of Alfresco 5.0:

  • Live search Feature

On Alfresco 5.0 this feature has been improved and is now more reliable and able to demonstrate Wiki and Blog item and Documents, Users and place in the list.

  • Filter on search 

With Solr 4 will be faster and more easily configured. Administrators can use the interface to add / remove / configure aspects, including size and date range, Site, Tag and filter your own custom property.

  • Suggest, Spell Check

Suggest features doing direct matching of keywords that we want to find and the keywords extracted from the name, title, description and content of the document. "Spell check" can help correct simple spelling errors while the user writes the wrong keywords.

  • Translations

As usual translation feature has been improved and updated. Translations include: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese.

  • Document Management 

Manage business-critical content such as contracts, proposals, agreements and other content on an organization

  • Online Preview

Online preview in Alfresco allows users to view documents directly without need to download the document. Pretty good at saving time.

  • Blog

On the blog you can share any relevant information about the project, you can create a new post for split / viewed by other members on the site.

  • Calendar

With the calendar you can set up a schedule and tracking of the events associated with the site.

  • Datalist

Data lists can create multiple lists of data based on the template available data on the list.

  • Discussion

With the existence of a forum discussions you can discuss with other members registered on a site.

  • Versioning

By default, versioning in the Alfresco Share are activated when we upload or to create a version of the content, the content is becoming Version 1.0.

  • Management of archives and Management Pictures

Managing archives and also shaped image files or video files.

  • Workflow

There are two workflows at the Alfresco which can be used, namely simple workflows and advanced workflows.

  • Single sign on

More helpfull for a company's security system and quite easier for users to access Alfresco.

  • Drag and drop untuk upload file

With this feature, the user only needs to drag a document that wants to be uploaded into a folder on Alfresco.

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25 May

Extranet Application, another Great Service Coming from Softbless Solutions

Business is nothing, but competition. Winning the competition using all your resources is the ultimate business surviving key. Regardless other resources, extranet system has proven its benefits in cutting the competition and streamlining most traditional business functions, therefore leads to highly efficient business.
Extranet application is a virtual, secure, and private network companies can use to share, collaborate, and integrate information as well as operations with their suppliers, teams, partners, and even customers. At least, extranet software offers seven benefits:
a. Increase productivity
b. Reduced margin of error
c. Flexibility
d. Timely and accurate information
e. Shorter time to market
f. Reduced inventory
Business is nothing, but competition. Winning the competition using all your resources is the ultimate business surviving key. Regardless other resources, extranet system has proven its benefits in cutting the competition and streamlining most traditional business functions, therefore leads to highly efficient business.
Extranet application is a virtual, secure, and private network companies can use to share, collaborate, and integrate information as well as operations with their suppliers, teams, partners, and even customers. At least, extranet software offers seven benefits:
a. Increase productivity
b. Reduced margin of error
c. Flexibility
d. Timely and accurate information
e. Shorter time to market
f. Reduced inventory
g. Build customer’s loyalty
All these benefits originate from the well-designed functionalities of extranet application: Documents, Administration, Profiles, and Auditing. These functionalities allow you to search, access, and manage your business document history, document author, version ID, extension, upload history, comments, file management, user’s history, user management, user access, download history, notification management, website and server management, e-mail management, project scheduling and any information you would like to know.
The best way to describe Extranet is your key towards success. However, as the matter becomes crucial, choosing the right extranet system is critical. You cannot pick one service randomly, especially if you do not know the provider as good as you understand your needs. While there are numerous options you can choose, we are proud to present ourselves, Softbless Solutions, as your trusted partner in implementing Extranet in your business.
At Softbless, we strive to provide only the best extranet solution. With the latest Liferay optimization, we ensure comfortable, yet quality experiences with our extranet solution. It will always be our pride to stand next to you in automating your business in the easiest way possible.
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31 Mar

Alfresco DMS, Your Trusted Document Management System Solution

In today’s global competitions, it is mandatory to assure all enterprise portal activities have met optimization standards, including, but not limited to document management system. This system covers various things from distribution of meeting report to policy making. However, pushing everything up to its highest level is not enough, as the security of the document, its unique access, context understanding for effective operation, and other functions should become our concern.

Carefully considered, these characteristics lead to the need of a trusted and comprehensive Liferay document management system.
In simple words, Document Management System (DMS) is a pioneer system that controls and manages your company’s documents. It combines document and content summary, workflow, document repositories, COLD/ERM, system output, and information retrieval systems. At the same time, it also traces, stores, controls, audits, locks, activates, and authorizes documents. Even though the features might have the best combinations you ever see, finding the best document management system for your company, without proper Alfresco training, is still a not-so-easy challenge to accomplish.
Luckily, we get Alfresco DMS. As the best-known DMS solution, Alfresco allows you to easily control user’s access, edit, control version trace and any information related to specific documents, as well as any user to access, find quickly and precisely, and understand the main description of the document they seek, through a comprehensive Alfresco training.
With countless benefits your company may receive, Alfresco DMS is certainly an offer you should never miss. There is no need to seek overseas vendor because Softbless Solutions, a national company experienced in providing enterprise content management , now gives you the offer to apply the system in your company. With vast client base and experiences in providing enterprise portal solutions to all of its clients, there is no better chance for your company to find better Alfresco DMS provider than Softbless Solutions.
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25 Mar

Liferay 6.2 Installation Tutorial on Windows

In a previous article, we have discussed about tutorial of alfresco installation. Now,  Softbless Solutions will share more information about Liferay installation. And this article will discuss about tutorial of Liferay installation on windows operating systems:

Because Liferay is a JAVA-based engine, then we need JDK version 5 and above. In addition to the JDK we also need a database that will be used for Liferay. Liferay installation for this time, Softbless Solutions will use MySQL as the database.

The following are the step by step Liferay installation on windows by using the MySQL database:

  1. Download liferay 6.2 CE at www.liferay.com
  2. Extract liferay 6.2 CE that has been downloaded then copied to the folder C: \. So that there will be a folder structure like this:
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2
  3. Install the JDK, then setting JRE_HOME, and CATALINA_HOME

  1. Install MySQL server on Windows
  2. Create a new database schema with the name “lportal” :
    create database lportal character set utf8;

  1. Run Liferay by double clicking on the startup.bat file :
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\tomcat-7.0.42\bin\startup.bat

  1. Tomcat will running, after that the Liferay can be accessible through a browser and as a prefix will appear "Basic Configuration" as shown below :

  1. Put the portal its name matches the name of the portal to be made. Example : Softbless
  2. Fill in the form of first name, last name, and email to the administrator
  3. Navigate to the Database setting, change the settings of the database by clicking "Change"

  1. Fill in every field for database setting. for the type of database according to the database being used, namely, MySQL. Then enter your username and password.

 

CATATAN :

Pada JDBC URL : lportal is the name of the database that will be used for Liferay

  1. Click the "Finish Configuration" if you have fill in the fields
  2. The success message will be appear, and then click Go to My Portal

  1. After that, the Agreement for term of user will be show like this picture below :

  1. Click "I Agree"

  1. Fill in the form for Password Reminder and click "Save"

  1. Liferay already installed, you can access Liferay via a web browser http: // ipserver: 8080
    Username : test@liferay.com
    Password : test

As implementation services provider for Liferay in Indonesia. Softbless Solutions has extensive experience in implementing, configuring and optimizing support for Liferay as an enterprise portal solution that is also in accordance with the vision of Softbless Solutions to become the leading provider of open source solutions and provide clients the most valuable service.

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25 Mar

Alfresco 5.0 Installation Tutorial on Windows

Tutorial for installation of Alfresco Community in this time will using the latest version, Alfresco 5.0. Make sure you have the installer of Alfresco 5.0 and The following below is step by step installation of Alfresco 5.0 on Windows :

  1. Language Selection. Please select "English - English" and then click "OK"

  1. Setup Alfresco Community, click "Next" button

  1. For the Installation Type, select "Advance-configures the server ports and services Properties" and click "Next"

  1. Select the components you want to install, you may be able to follow the image below :

  1. Select the folder path where to store the installed alfresco. You can save it in C: \ Alfresco

  1. Input the database configuration as shown below, then click "Next"

  1. For Tomcat Port configuration, enter the IP address and port for tomcat. You can see the example below :

  1. Enter the port for FTP Server: 21

  1. Input port for the remote command which contains 50500 as shown below :

  1. Enter the admin password for this application

  1. Input port for SharePoint, Port: 7070

  1. Input port for OpenOffice is 8100

  1. Select the type of configuration to the startup tomcat and the database, you can choose Auto if you want to start automatically. Or Manual if you want to start services manually

  1. Preparation for the installation of Alfresco, please click "Next" to continue.

  1. After the installation is complete, click "Finish"

Alfresco version 5.0 does not use the bundled MySQL again in the installer, but have chosen PostgreSQL as its DBMS. To run the service Alfresco, click: Start - All Programs – Alfresco Community - Alfresco Community Service - Start Alfresco Community service. Or can be run the service through the Run - services.msc. There will be a service Alfresco. Right-click, start | stop | restart. After starting the service of Alfresco, then we can access the Alfresco web client from the browser with the address: http://ipserver: 8080/share

Softbless Solutions telah memiliki banyak pengalaman dan juga resources sebagai penyedia jasa implementasi Alfresco di Indonesia

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2 Mar

Liferay Enterprise Portal, Your Company Collaboration and Communication Solution

A company’s success not only lies on its well-developed strategies, but also the quality of its corporate portal and human resources. Despite of the roles of other resources, these resources are vital due to their role in policy making, implementation, and monitoring. This further leads to methods company applies. The better the methods, the better policies it will make which further determines the success of the company.

Liferay Enterprise Portal, Your Company Communication and Collaboration Solution

On top of that, we found the key lies on centralized control, describing the importance of control over intranet. By externalizing authorization from core portal, collaboration, content management, and messaging infrastructure using traffic-information-intercepting agents, we can improve our company's efficacy. Besides, the system allows a centralized policy making by allowing or revoking intranet access based on user’s data, communication channel, accessed resources, active content, and other environmental variables.
These important functions, without any doubt, has given leads to our imminent need of Liferay.
With the emphasis on security and compliance, Liferay training offers a flexible system based on policies company can use to manage, provide, and audit access over its information infrastructure. Similar to Alfresco, this system accommodates company collaboration and communication channels, including its portals, content management system, instant messaging, VoIP, e-mail, meeting history, text chat, and video conference.
Despite of the complexities of its features, it is not impossible to own this amazing system. Thanks to Softbless Solutions, our company, Liferay enterprise portal is now available for your company. With proven experiences in serving large companies, Softbless Solutions has long gained trusts to provide the best Alfresco training as solution over vast challenges and problems for countless offices.
Now, it is your call to make and experience the best enterprise content management solution for your company. Do not make the wrong decision by not choosing us, because we are the best and your trustworthy Liferay enterprise portal provider.
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2 Mar

Softbless Announces a Business Breakthrough with a Strategic Partnership with Liferay

With years of experience in implementing, configuring, and optimizing supports from diverse set of BOSSIE Award-winning open-source solutions, Softbless Solutions, through services it offer, has successfully helped companies in building comprehensive, quick, precise, efficient and most-valued services over various problems and challenges. Now, as a proof of its dedication to providing better service, Softbless Solutions proudly presents upgrade to its service with a partnership breakthrough with Liferay Inc.

Softbless is Liferay partner in Indonesia. As their partner, we believe we could increate the service quality in implementation

With years of experience in implementing, configuring, and optimizing supports from diverse set of BOSSIE Award-winning open-source solutions, Softbless Solutions, through services it offer, has successfully helped companies in building comprehensive, quick, precise, efficient and most-valued services over various problems and challenges. Now, as a proof of its dedication to providing better service, Softbless Solutions proudly presents upgrade to its service with a partnership breakthrough with Liferay Inc.

Softbless is Liferay partner in Indonesia. As their partner, we believe we could increate the service quality in implementation

With vast client base and dedication to the best service quality, Softbless expects this partnership as a milestone to bring its clients to a better and more advanced solution to increase their business efficiency. It is also a kind of returning the favor over trust Softbless Solutions receives from its clients.

Choosing Liferay Inc. itself is, in fact, not a difficult decision as in fact this company has proven its dedication in providing enterprise-class open source portal solutions and software products for collaborative purposes. Through its history, countless companies have successfully boosted their business efficiency, which leads to profit boost in considerably short time due to the implementation of Liferay services. These services focus in connecting web capabilities, which numbers and functions are far beyond other platforms. Furthermore, Liferay also provides professional services, technical support, customized development, and professional training to ensure only the best result would appear in today’s IT-based global competition.

With this service upgrade, Softbless Solutions confirmed with confidence our position as the best enterprise-class open source portal solutions. We offer comprehensive solutions for your company customize them prior to your needs, secure them to protect your data, and reduce your dependencies to specific vendor.

Find your company solutions at Softbless Solutions, your best company partner. Whenever you need the best Enterprise Portal solutions, we will be here to help you, our most-valued clients.

Update and Disclaimer : Currently Softbless is no longer Liferay's partner, we don't extend it to become a partner with Liferay. We take this step, because if we become a Liferay partner, we are obliged to only provide implementation services for the Enterprise Edition version of Liferay. With this obligation, we are limited to providing services to the wider scope and community that prefer to use Liferay Community Edition.

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26 Feb

Your Partner in Alfresco & Liferay Implementation

Vendor selection phase in the implementation of Document Management System or Enterprise Portal is very important. By choosing a reliable and qualified vendor then delivery will be good. But otherwise if you select vendors of low quality, then the project schedule would be delayed from the previous plan, given delivery will also not meet the expectations of the company. Softbless have experience of implementing Alfresco and Liferay for 4-5 years. Our clients are large companies that have made us as their partner in Alfresco implementation and Liferay implementation. With our very extensive experience we can provide best practice in the implementation of Alfresco and Liferay.
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