13 Dec

Alfresco Smartphone - Android

OS Android : Gingerbread 
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Install applications ACC - ALF Mobile
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The first time you open the application ACC - ALF Mobile then you will see Add content repository. 
Click Yes.
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Select the type of server, select the Alfresco server by clicking the button Alfresco Server
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Details:
Credentials
Hostname: 192.168.1.15
User: togum
Password: ******

Advanced Configuration
HTTPS: not checked
Port: 80
URL: /alfresco/service/cmis
Repository
Repository Name: Type anything - it's a personnal label/id for your server inside the application. Ex: softbless. "If it is not filled then be validated because of the content of the repository name to empty".
Workspace: Main Repository
 

Credentials
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Advanced Configuration 
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Repository 
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Browse Document. To view the contents of the Alfresco repository, click the button CMIS Explorer 
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It will appear in the Alfresco folder structure 
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View Properties. Click on the document if you want to see the metadata
This is an example of metadata from docx files 
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This is an example of metadata from image files
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Actions 
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With this application, you can view thumbnails of documents 
Ini adalah contoh thumbnail dari file docx 
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This is an example of thumbnails from image files
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How to install and run the Android emulator?:
1. Download adt-bundle-windows-x86_64 
2. Unzip the downloaded 
3. Open the folder adt-bundle-windows-x86_64 \ adt-bundle-windows \ eclipse 
4. Double click Eclipse.exe 
5. Browse repository workspace, and then click OK 
6. After Java - ADT open, click the Windows Menu - Android Virtual Device Manager 
7. Click New 
Fill in the form according to the type of device you want to run: 
AVD Name : Nexus
Device : 5.1" WVGA (480 x 800: mdpi)
Target : Android 4.2 - API Level 17
RAM : 512
VM Heap : 16
Internal Storage : 200 MiB
SD Card : 1 GiB
 
8. Then click OK 
9. Select Nexus and click Start 
10. Emulators are loaded 
11 Dec

Alfresco 4.2.b Installation Tutorial on Linux

Alfresco 4.2.b Installation Tutorial on Linux
For alfresco installation process on Linux and Windows are the same.
Here's a screenshot of the installation process on Linux Alfresco 4.2 b:

1. Language selection

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2. Alfresco Community Setup

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3. Installation type
Chose Advance-Configures server ports and services properties
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4. Select the application
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5. Select where to save the patch to be installed alfresco folder
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6. Enter port for the database server
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7. Enter the IP address and port for tomcat The example below is the ip address for localhost
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8. Enter port for the FTP server
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9. Enter port for remote commands
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10. Enter the password for the application Alfresco
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11. Enter port for SharePoint
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12 Install alfresco as a service?
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13. Enter port for LibreOffice
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14. Preparation for installation of Alfresco
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15. Alfresco installation process
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16. Alfresco installation has been completed
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17. Starting servers
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18. After that it leads directly to the browser application
Enter the username and password you created at installation stage Alfresco
Username is admin

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19. Alfresco display in the browser
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10 Dec

Alfresco 4.2.b Installation Tutorial on Windows

Alfresco 4.2.b Installation Tutorial on Windows
For alfresco installation process on Linux and Windows are the same.
Here's a screenshot of the installation process on Windows Alfresco 4.2 b:
1. Language selection

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2. Alfresco Community Setup

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3. Installation type Chose Advance-Configures server ports and services properties
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4. Select the application
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5. Select where to save the patch to be installed alfresco folder
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6. Enter port for the database server
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7. Enter the IP address and port for tomcat The example below is the ip address for localhost

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8. Enter port for the FTP server
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9. Enter port for remote commands
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10. Enter the password for the application Alfresco
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11. Enter port for SharePoint
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12. Enter port for LibreOffice
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13. Select the type of configuration to the startup tomcat and database
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14. Preparation for installation of Alfresco
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15. Alfresco installation process
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16. Database installation process
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17. Alfresco module Installation Process
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18. Alfresco installation has been completed
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19. After that it leads directly to the browser application
Enter the username and password you created at installation stage Alfresco
Username is admin
Password according to the time of the installation alfresco
Then click login


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20. Alfresco display in the browser
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20 Nov

Liferay MarketPlace

In August 2012, Liferay have officially launched their Liferay Marketplace to this world. Where, The Liferay Marketplace is an application store which designed specifically for Liferay users. A Liferay Marketplace initial is announced in May 2012 at the East Coast Symposium. Liferay, Inc. is a provider of open source portal and also leads in enterprises. This enterprise has offers more than 70 applications for enterprises use. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and other developers are requested by Liferay to begin build their application for Liferay Marketplace during a launching of Liferay Marketplace.

As the third party, the ISVs will support Liferay in creating the application as the next stage of Liferay step in developing Liferay Marketplace. ISVs will develop additional function of Liferay application in transaction and payment processing functionality. The availability of Liferay application in the market is an essential step for Liferay, in present high access to their user around this world. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace provides ISVs a new distribution channel in presenting their enterprise application to a global audience that includes over 500,000 deployments of the Liferay platform around the world.

Liferay application was able accepted the concept of application store from others application provider, such as Microsoft and Cisco. Instead of the concept of consumer space, Liferay was rising as a fixture of the enterprise user. In addition, people who are often used other application and opens Alfresco, will recognize Alfresco as a solution for their customer in finding and acquiring platform extensions. Liferay application have a simple application with its one-click capability to others application provider, especially customer who use a phones or their tablet.

As a formal Liferay Marketplace site, this site provides a dozens of application, templates, and themes. This market place content will support Liferay customer in expanding and straighten Liferay implementation. Presently, Liferay Marketplace site is providing application browsing based on their category or searching according its keywords.

       Liferay Marketplace site page
                             Liferay Marketplace site page

In Liferay Marketplace, visitor/ user will able to find the most popular application or detail information of application. ISVs have committed to providing their innovative application for Liferay Marketplace application store. In addition, instead of searching based on the keywords or the category, the customer was able review Liferay application and also downloads this application from public repository. Then, the user can runs this application, after installing this application in their local portal or Liferay portal. Therefore, it will adapted and broaden operation for Liferay user, simple and fast processing in technical or non-technical for the user.

Liferay's Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan, stated that, “Liferay Marketplace supports multiple goals we have wanted deliver over the last few years.”. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace is a solution for Liferay user in saving their times and their cost. "It greatly enhances our customers’ abilities to extend their existing web solutions in a manner that saves them on time and the costs associated with solution upgrades. Also, in keeping with Liferay’s longstanding commitment to creating value for the open source community, Liferay Marketplace aims to make it easier for a larger community of developers to share and distribute innovations as easily consumable modular applications.”, Chan said.

Liferay application store is not only for personal use, but this market place is also a place for the software vendor and Liferay developer in exhibit and sells their application functionality in developing for the portal. Application in market place must be running in Liferay 6.1 or later. Liferay carry out validation process to application component, before this application is publish for the customer. These validations are:

•    Checking by basic antivirus or malware

•    Clear application title, description, image or etc

•    Testing Functionality (basic test)

Even Liferay have performs for the malware checking, Liferay is does not guaranteed on malware free or pass the security standard procedure. However, this problem is not exclusive in Liferay application store. Organization in Liferay development and application validation function is expected not introducing any security issues.

“The Liferay Marketplace allows anyone to have their applications be seen and deployed by our users around the world,” Chan said. “We believe this will allow Liferay and the Liferay community to deliver more innovations faster than ever before to enterprise customers.”
20 Jun

Features of Liferay Sync on Liferay 6.1

Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Edwin Chung, Liferay's VP of Product Management, state that “Liferay Sync was designed to combine the benefits of a web application with the user interaction benefits of a desktop or mobile application”. Below some a brief features Liferay Sync.
 

Authentication Service

This feature is integrated by existing authentication systems. Liferay Sync is automatically records your securely authenticate and existing credentials. Therefore, when the user has been access documents and sites before, it will be visible without separate the user password anymore.

Documents and Media Sync

This feature helps files synchronize immediately, both on document or media item. The user who not using Liferay Sync, they are still able in taking document which are uploaded and shared by other user before by other Just in Time Sync feature.
View of ​Liferay Sync Configuration Setting
 

Just in Time Sync and Simple Sharing

The file document will be available by Just in Time Sync feature. This feature is using over-the-wire traffic minimizing method. A certain file type will viewed as it types, document files or PDF will be viewed as PDF, another office program were also able in edited and saved as it file types (such as word documents will be saved as word documents).

Liferay Integration and Multiple Sites Features

Liferay Syn is completely integrated with Liferay Portal, which allows users to synchronized documents which will be tagged, commented on, categorized and participate in workflow. The user will be able can manage documents across all their sites in Multiple Sites.

Offline Support and Native Clients - OS and Mobile

According to Edwin Chung, “While Office Web Apps and Google Docs require you to store a copy on the server and edit documents in a browser, Liferay Sync allows users to leverage any desktop or mobile office package, such as MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, or Photoshop, to edit and save documents locally while either online or offline.”. Therefore offline support is Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities feature on Liferay Sync. This is a key benefit for Liferay users in accessed their documents in offline, then the documents synchronize when users are back online.
20 Jun

Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1

The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
In addition, when the users need to create a new document types, the user should define one or more metadata sets information to associate with document type. The user can define "Main Metadata Fields" or select "Additional Metadata Fields" from Add button located in top of dialog button.

Automatic Preview Generation

This feature are powerful and help user to preview documents, image or video first, before they need to download it and also browse media what they are looking for. Document preview is according types of the content. Types of document available to preview before the user download from Documents and Media whenever it's possible are: Office documents (such as .docx, .pdf, .odt, .ppt, etc.), multimedia (play various video and audio media formats from the browser, configured by Xuggler in audio and video player configuration), OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and ImageMagick (pdf conversion).
Sample of multim​edia automatic preview generation

Document Type Restrictions and Workflow per Folder

This feature is powerful feature to enforce rules for documents uploaded by users. So the user not able to add all types of document, only certain document types to add to a folder. As default configuration, a parent folder is not accessible by child folders and can be customized by editing the folder and selecting the allowed document types.

Only certain types of document and workflow can be added

WebDAV Access

WebDAV or Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of method to permit the user in create, edit, move, or delete files stored on web servers. Therefore, the user can access their documents and folders in Liferay's Documents and Media library from they own machine's file manager. For example, when the user create new image in folder by Documents and Media and uploaded it, then they can access the folder and also the image using a browser and Liferay's web interface by appropriate permissions from administrator. Therefore, the user needs to log in to the portal in credential and find WebDAV URL where the user likes to access. This feature is also support most major operating system and also desktop environment, including Linux (both KDE and GNOME), Mac OS, and Windows.

27 May

Alfresco in Cloud

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Alfresco’s new enterprise content management product, Alfresco Cloud is designed to be a strong competitor with such products as Box.net, Drop Box and the long list of other cloud based storage applications.  This new document management system features an HTML5 interface, better mobile supports all with a cloud-connected content design.


This cloud-connected content program is a solution designed from the beginning to be cloud-based and accessible anywhere, but with the security and governance required by their many different globally located client companies.

Alfrescos three-step strategy includes launching a public beta version for Alfresco Cloud. The platform includes a number of features such as drag and drop file uploads, file previews, simple workflow and task management. The Alfresco Cloud will also feature cloud connector capabilities as well as integration with Dropbox as well as the ability to follow activity streams on social media platforms and private company collaboration sites.

Alfresco Cloud users can upgrade from a free account to a Team or Enterprise network. Team networks will require a minimum of five users and will include more storage, enhanced support and larger sized file limits as well as exclusive    user and network administration features and custom branding as well as other additional features such as LDAP integration and sync with Alfresco Enterprise. There are also apps for mobile devices that allow access to content from any location. Unlike other storage solutions, Alfresco Cloud is designed for teams and when users with the same email domain use Alfresco Cloud we are then added to a private network that allows users to see sites created by others in the same company. Companies can also share 10GB of storage and unlimited numbers of users.

Users are increasingly introducing consumer devices and applications to the enterprise content management. Softbless, an Alfresco service provider and  official Liferay partner in Indonesia(2011-2012) understands the struggle to keep pace with this ever increasing demand.  

As Alfresco service provider and official Liferay partner in Indonesia, Softbless offers service and the ability to implement Alfresco.
27 May

What's New in Alfresco 4.0

The enterprise workforce has changed and Alfresco understands that a new approach to content management is needed in this user-focused mobile corporate world. That is why Alfresco has created a new approach to enterprise content management with the cloud connected content program. This new valuable tool is built on Alfresco’s strong foundation of proven content management platform that has been used at over 2000 enterprises in nearly 60 countries.

The new 4.0 version of Alfresco features the ability for tablet users to access and edit content from any device, anywhere. Social network users easily like, follow and view content activity streams. This new systems also allows for easy social media content publishing.

Alfresco 4.0 integrate with productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, GoogleDocs as well as other popular productivity suites. Alfresco users can also collaborate with other outside their firewall with the new Cloud connects.

 The new Alfresco Enterprise 4 platform has been used in areas with over 100 million documents and thousands enterprise users.  A great many number of partners and their customers built content rich customized applications by using Alfresco.  There have been significant performance improvements such as four times faster content uploads and ten times faster dashboard queries from users.

The new scalability options mean that Alfresco 4 scales up or out with numerous new deployment options. The extensibility enhancements allow developers to easily customize and extend the Alfresco Share application using new configuration options and custom drop-in extensions. The web-based administration tools featured in Alfresco 4.0 helps clients to manage their content repository, users’ directory, social publishing channels and subscription right from the new web interface option.

Other new functionalities in Alfresco 4.0 :
•    Apache SOLR support
•    Drag and drop upload
•    Activiti Workflow
•    Social Channel Publishing

As Alfresco service provider, Softbless provides their clients with full service document management systems expertise. This exceptional partnership offers their clients a great deal of content enterprise management options that will truly make it possible for exceptionally well designed work efficient programs in the ever changing workforce of today and the future.