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19. May 2009

FlexibleShare+AIR (dashboard/portal for Alfresco, LiveCycle): build1 available

Filed under: AIR,Alfresco,BI / Reporting,Collaboration,Dashboards,Flex,Flex Portals,FlexibleDashboard,FlexibleShare,LiveCycle — admin @ 21:25

A first build and source for FlexibleShare+AIR, an open source, Flex based dashboard/portal container focused on document management (Alfresco, Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES), collaboration (Alfresco Share), and BI/charting/reporting, is now available on the Alfresco Forge and on Google Code.

As a Flex based dashboard for FlexSpaces view pods (doc mgt, wcm, search, workflow tasks), its further along. (Note that the WCM pod is commented out in data/pods.xml).

The Flex based pods (blog, wiki, discussions, doclib, calendar) for Share back-end are prototypes. No commenting/reply feature yet. The calendar doesn’t hook into the Share backend yet. The Share dashboard html pod runs the Share overall dashboard (no pods for individual Surf dashlets yet). (Note that you need to confgure Share pods with the correct site short url name in the siteUrlName attributes in pods.xml)

The Charting, Pentaho charting, JasperReports report viewer pods are samples only (additional BI/reporting capabilities to come). Liferay html pod runs the full Liferay portal (no pods for individual Liferay portlets yet).

FlexibleShare uses the Esria dashboard sample. I still need to look into leveraging the Anvil project to provide more modular support for loading Flex portlets. (Note see previous blog post with more details on FlexibleShare)

Do to use of AIR, you can drag desktop files into FlexibleShare folder views. Regular AIR drag / drop also allows you to drag files from the local files pod to folder view pods and between folder view pods. Calais semantic auto-tagging, tag suggesting can be used in Doclib pods and in the search pod (switch from having the “simplesearch” pod to the “search” pod in pods.xml), and setup the Calais key / set enableCalais in FlexSpacesConfig.xml

To get FlexibleShare to run on LiveCycle Content Services (8.2.1), FlexSpacesConfig.xml needs to be changed following its LiveCycle comments (different setting for alfresoUrlPart, set isLiveCycleContentService value to true, and set serverVersion to 2.1 to reflect its embedded Alfreso. Also in data/pods.xml comment out the tasks pod, and remove the pods in Share section. Note: for FlexibleShare on LiveCycle on non localhost, currently need to recompile with service-config.xml changed.

FlexibleShare Document Management (WCM pod not shown) screenshot (click on for larger):

FlexibleShare Collaboration screenshot (click on for larger):

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4. May 2009

FlexSpaces 0.9 released, CMIS Spaces preview build 6 released

Filed under: AIR,Alfresco,CMIS,CMIS Spaces,Flex,FlexSpaces,LiveCycle — admin @ 12:58

FlexSpaces 0.9 (Flex+AIR, Flex+Browser) RIA Clients for Alfresco (and Adobe LiveCycle Content Services)
Refactored to use Presentation Model pattern, added SampleApp1, severside paging in webscripts (doclib, search results), favorites/shortcuts, now 6 languages, preview now more usable and uses same content model REST api as Alfresco Share, Spring ActionScript XML config of: what views to show (doclib, search, tasks, wcm, share), whether to have coverflow view mode, default view page sizes, page size picklist, thumbnail info (id/name, size). Menu config more usable now that all menu enable/disable code is position independent, thumbnails fixed, bug fixes. FlexSpaces on Google Code FlexSpaces on Alfresco Forge (Update: note in FlexSpacesConfig.xml, for LiveCycle, the alfrescoUrlPart should be “/contentspace/service” not “/contentspace/servicee” in the comment. )

CMIS Spaces RIA clients (Flex+AIR, Flex+Browser) preview build 6
CMIS Spaces clients are for ECM / CMS servers supporting the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. CMIS Spaces supports CMIS on both REST Atom and SOAP. Changed to keep in sync with FlexSpaces 0.9 code, performance fix to remove overhead of undisplayed coverflow, CMIS Spaces specifc menu XML config file, Spring ActionScript XML config of: what views to show (doclib, search, checked out), default view page sizes, page size picklist. CMIS Spaces on Google Code CMIS Spaces on Alfresco Forge

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28. April 2009

Links for April 28 2009

Filed under: Alfresco,CMIS,Flex — admin @ 10:26

Flex Builder Linux version on hold

Online Flex app1: FormDriven, wysiwyg designer for PDF Forms

Online Flex apps2: Aviary Releases API: Add Image Editing to Your Website

FlexSpaces for Alfresco recent updates

CMIS Spaces updated to keep in sync with FlexSpaces

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3. March 2009

Drupal + CMIS, Alfresco, CMIS Spaces Flex+AIR

Filed under: AIR,Alfresco,CMIS,CMIS Spaces,Drupal,Flex,WCM — admin @ 17:46

Just for fun I tried out this chain of software working together for Drupal in a RIA client:

Drupal 6.10 (used Acquia Drupal 1.2.3)
CMIS and CMIS Alfresco Drupal modules (joint effort Optaros, Acquia, and Alfresco)
Alfresco Labs 3
CMIS Spaces Flex+AIR client early preview

Got it working by
1. Installing and enabling the Drupal modules
2. Configuring the CMIS, CMIS Alfresco, and CMIS Sync module settings in Drupal

(Although now only stories, pages created in Drupal get created in the Alfresco folder setup in the CMIS sync config in Drupal. I thought I had seen files created in the Alfresco folder get synced back)
Update: 2 way sync on creation
“Yes, currently Alfresco -> Drupal sync works via cron, so you’ll need to have cron running at reasonable intervals (or run it manually). This will likely be improved in future versions.”

Steve

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2. March 2009

CMIS Spaces Flex+AIR early preview download available

Filed under: AIR,Alfresco,CMIS,CMIS Spaces,Flex — admin @ 03:17

A early first build/AIR installer of CMIS Spaces Flex+Air is now available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/cmisspaces/
Consider it like a prototype (some stuff works). Update: source code is in Google Code, a non AIR CMIS Spaces Flex+Browser is available in the source too, and a preview build 5 of Flex+AIR is available.

Working Features (pretty much FlexSpaces minus WorkFlow, minus WCM)
(Tested with a download of Alfresco Labs 3 final with a draft CMIS implementation.)
1. Uses CMIS REST Atom binding API (or CMIS Web Services binding API) instead of Alfresco web scripts
2. Doclib with Tree, Folder view (both icon and grid views), breadcrumb nav
3. One box basic search and advanced search dialog (advanced just does basic now)
4. Version List Panel (show with View / Version History)
5. Checkout, Checkin, Cancel Checkout (may be issues with repeated use on same file)
6. Checked Out Files List View (checkin, cancel checkout from here)
7. Create Folder (File/Create Space menu)
8. Upload Files dialog (works on Flex+AIR, Flex+Browser needs multipart form post in cmis)
9. Download File dialog (works, will get auth prompt first time)
10. Viewing files on files in doc lib and checked out list views (not in search results since cmis didn’t return content stream urls)
11. Multi select Delete with confirm dialog
12. Play video file (“Play Video” menu on files in the repo)
13. AIR: Drag in from desktop into repo (multiple select) with progress bars (need to add drag out)
14. AIR: native clipboard copy / paste from desktop into repo
15. AIR:Local files pane (View / Local Files Browser menu) with drag into repo
16. AIR: Create Content dialogs (HTML, text, xml) (xml has problems)
17. Language translations for FlexSpaces will work with it (currently: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek)
18. Application UI component library using presentation model pattern, Cairngorm based “non UI” api (also will have an extension of as3atompub lib for CMIS)

Setup:
1. CMIS Spaces Flex+AIR needs AIR 1.5 or greater installed before double clicking on the CMISSpacesAir.air file to install it.
2. In CMISSpacesConfig.xml (Spring ActionScript file) in Program Files/CMISSpacesAir
a. Set CMIS service URL for your vendor / host in the cmisUrl property
b. useSockets property set whether non sockets mode (URLLoader,HTTPServer) or sockets/as3httpclientlib mode
(some CMIS rest things that will work in AIR won’t work in non-AIR without using sockets) (also as3httpclientlib supports HTTPS using AS3Crypto TLS , in addition to HTTP, headers, all http methods)
(delete and cancel checkout delay a long time in socket mode, update fixed this 3/3/09 on my side)
c. the crossDomainFileUrl property can be used to specify a location of a cross domain file URL to check
A sample crossdomain.xml file is included with wild cards that should be changed (use of http headers in CMIS, use of sockets mode may require this (more so with Flex+Browser than with Flex+AIR)
3. Note: patched C:\Alfresco\install\labs\3final\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\org\alfresco\repository\store changed pwc.get.atomentry.ftl to have syntax like pwc.put.atomentry.ftl to avoid server syntax error with checked out / private working copies
changed [@entryLib.pwc node ns=[@nsLib.entryNS/]/]
to [#assign namespace][@nsLib.entryNS/][/#assign]
[@entryLib.pwc node=node ns=namespace/]
4. Update 3/12/09: For Web Services mode instead of CMIS Atom REST, set useWebServices value to “true” and set url in cmisWebServicesUrl in config file.