Flex for Enterprise 3.0

FlexSpaces 0.5 released

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:23 +0000

1. Added tag cloud and category tree navigation to search tab view, see tagging-in-flexspaces-0.5

2. Added Tag/Categories dialog to view/edit tags and categories on nodes, see tagging-in-flexspaces-0.5

3. Added upload status dialog with multiple progress bars / file upload info

4. Added disabling/enabling main menu items based on user’s permissions (context menu disabling needs more work)

5. Made single pane folders the default instead of dual panes (can use “dual panes” and “wcm dual panes” view menus to toggle back on dual panes)

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Tagging in FlexSpaces 0.5

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:02:04 +0000

I thought I would show some screenshots of the support for tagging and categorization that will be in the next release of FlexSpaces (0.5). FlexSpaces 0.5 will also have progress bars added in upload, some other features, and some bug fixes.

Within the search tab view, clicking on a tag in the tag cloud lists documents/folders with the tag in the search results. Clicking on a node in the category tree will list items with the category in the search results. Within all the views except wcm, the “Tags/Categories” dialog can be used to view and edit the tags and categories assigned to a document/folder.

I also included a screenshot of the WCM tab added in 0.3. This allows you to navigate / work with files and folders in AVM stores, has a tree, and supports drag/drop between dual folder views (dual wcm panes is turned off in screenshot). Also native drag/drop/copy/paste of desktop files into AVM stores is supported FlexSpaces+AIR.

Note: the screenshots below also show the change in 0.4 to have an icon/grid view in search results with context menu support like the other views (instead of having the search results link view from the ace sample). Also shown is the dockable menubar and toolbar added in 0.4.

FlexSpaces 0.4 released

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:45:33 +0000

FlexSpaces 0.4 released

Flex/ActionScript source for FlexSpaces+Browser and FlexSpaces+AIR included in this release.
No longer a prototype, significant work to make the code more well structured, commented, etc. (Added use of Cairngorm+UM, Supervising Presenter / Passive View presentation patterns.)

New features include icon/grid view and context menu in search results, dockable toolbar/menubar, menu enabling/disabling, XML configuration of context and main menus, start on advanced search (UI only).

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

FlexSpaces 0.3 prototype release

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:14:42 +0000

New FlexSpaces 0.3 release
1. Added some WCM/AVM support to FlexSpaces prototypes:
navigate / work with files and folders in AVM stores in new WCM tab view with tree and drag/drop/clipboard between dual folder views.
(Also native drag/drop/copy/paste of desktop files into AVM stores in FlexSpceaces+AIR).
2. Added AVM support in webscripts.
3. Bugs fixed.

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve

0.2 prototype FlexSpaces+AIR and FlexSpaces+Browser release

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:54:37 +0000

Updated previous blog entry 3 AIR client platforms for FlexSpaces+AIR
to not say “almost 3” now that I have fixed the major problems on the Mac. Now have “rich” / thick client like functionality for Alfresco on Windows, Mac, and Linux with FlexSpaces+AIR. In addition, FlexSpaces+Browser supports all of the FlexSpaces+AIR features (minus air specific desktop drag/drop/clipboard/offlining) on Windows, Mac, Linux from a browser without needing AIR installed. All from the same codebase.

FlexSpaces prototype 0.2 release

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

1. Updated FlexSpaces+AIR to have better support for mac (fixes upload files, native drag/drop, native clipboard, create content html), and fixed having some extra authentication dialogs on Windows

2. Added FlexSpaces+Browser prototype for browser based (non AIR) FlexSpaces from a web server

3. Added XML data webscripts only download for use with any ajax/html or flex or xyz custom application

3 AIR client platforms for FlexSpaces+AIr

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:01:39 +0000

Did some testing of FlexSpaces+AIR on non windows AIR client platforms:

AIR client worked fine on Linux Ubuntu 8.04 including the AIR specific features (native drag/drop, native clipboard, make files offline)
1. To install adobe air alpha runtime for linux:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/06/ho … on-ubuntu/
2. Double click and install FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/
3. Set host and port in /opt/FlexSpacesAir/alfresco-config.xml
(note the linux air alpha currently does not support internal viewing of pdfs)(make pdf, make flash preview, view flash preview features of FlexSpaces still work)

On Mac OSX 10.5.2 Leopard, works except for things involving upload (upload files…, native shell drag/drop, native shell clipboard), make files offline worked. On windows and linux flash players, able to authenticate and thus upload a new file, on mac flashplayer getting 401 codes back. Still working on this issue. (Update: Fixed these Mac problems in 0.2 prototype 5/13/08)

1. Install released AIR 1.x runtime for the Mac
http://get.adobe.com/air/
2. Double click and install FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/
3. Set host and port name in alfresco-config.xml
a. In finder choose “Show Package Contents” on installed FlexSpacesAir.app
b. alfresco-config.xml is in contents/resources/

Windows, basic and air specific features (native drag/drop, native clipboard, make files offline) work
1. Install air runtime http://get.adobe.com/air/
2. Double click and install FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/
3. Set host and port in c:\Program Files\FlexSpacesAIR\alfresco-config.xml
(Would make things easier if you could set the host and port from the UI of FlexSpaces.)

Note: community and enterpise versions of the Alfresco ECM server itself are available from:
2.1 released community version
nightly builds of 2.9 community version under dev
trial versions of 2.2 released enterprise version

Steve

Prototype of FlexSpaces+AIR available

admin — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:16:16 +0000

Added a prototype of FlexSpaces+AIR client (air install file) along with 23 data web scripts in a new FlexSpaces alfresco forge project.
See readme.txt in zip file. Works with windows AIR client, haven’t tried with AIR on Mac or Linux. (Again its in the early prototype stage!)

The data web scripts are JavaScript based, with Freemarker templates returning XML to the Flex / ActionScript / AIR client.

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve

New FlexSpaces Feature: Advanced Search

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:15:40 +0000

Added advanced search. Still need pickers for spaces and categories.

FlexSpaces Additional Features

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:34:36 +0000

Below is a new screencam of added workflow features in FlexSpaces and FlexSpaces+AIR for Alfresco. Added Start Workflow dialog, task dashboard tab with task list, task attachment list (with full menu, context menu support), adhoc done, approve, reject buttons. Added web scripts to support these features.

Screencam also shows Flash preview of MS Office documents, and drag drop between two repository folders. ( Feature list )

FlexSpaces+AIR for Alfresco Screencams

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:30:02 +0000

FlexSpaces+AIR for Alfresco: AIR specific features screencam:

FlexSpaces+AIR for Alfresco: General features screencam: