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FlexSpaces for Alfresco and LiveCycle CS ES, Calais integration, FlexibleShare

Here are some links to screencam demos, previous posts about FlexSpaces (both Flex+Browser and Flex+AIR), an open source RIA client for Alfresco ECM (and for Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES too). FlexSpaces has many features including multiple views (icon/thumbnail/grid/coverflow), doclib, search, workflow, and wcm. The AIR version has desktop native drag/drop/clipboard support. These clients also have UI (auto-tagging, tag suggesting, geo-location tag google map) for the Alfresco Calais integration. FlexSpaces uses Cairngorm and has been refactored to use the presentation model pattern.

FlexSpaces showing Calais Integration features

FlexSpaces Downloads

Additionally, prototype work has started on FlexibleShare, which leverages FlexSpaces components in an open source Flex based portal container / dashboard with Flex based pods for open source enterprise software (Alfresco ECM, Alfresco Share, reporting/BI, BPM, Liferay portal backend) and also LiveCycle. Also plan to enable the pods to be used as Adobe Genesis Tiles.

FlexibleShare prototype

Other FlexSpaces Screenshots / Screencams
Liferay + FlexSpaces + Alfresco
Alfresco Share 3.0 Integration, Thumbnail, CoverFlow View, Advanced Search
Tagging, Categorization, WCM
General Features and AIR specific features
Start workflow, Tasks dashboard tab, preview, dual pane drag/drop

Integrated Semantics
Integrated Semantics Blog
FlexSpaces Forum Topic
FlexSpaces on Google Code
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Alfresco Groovy Processor / Flex

Alexander has updated his Groovy processor to work in Alfresco 3.0 (3.0 stable final). Previously it was for Alfresco 2.x. It allows using .groovy and .gsp in web scripts installed in Alfresco. I will have to try some Flex UI calling Groovy web scripts, later support server-side customization of FlexSpaces and FlexibleShare with Groovy!.

Update: Here is a link to a 8/19/2010 blog post from Peter Monks at Alfresco

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/pmonks/2010/08/19/alfresco-and-groovy-baby/

His Alfresco Forge Groovy project using a different approach

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

(no download file, need to be logged into Alfresco Forge then can browse code in svn)

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Flex and CMIS

Shane Johnson has done some work on a browser with Flex / AIR and CMIS (with Alfresco). This got me thinking that I should have a pod in FlexibleShare for CMIS api repositories (with drag / drop from desktop to it and between it and Alfresco DocLib / WCM pods).

First FlexibleShare prototype sneak peak

Here is a screencam of an early prototype of FlexibleShare, an open source Flex based portal container / dashboard with Flex based pods for open source enterprise SW (Alfresco ECM, Alfresco Share, reporting/BI, BPM, portals):

This will initially focus on Flex+AIR, and later will have Flex+Browser support. Also plan to enable the pods to be used as Adobe Genesis Tiles. (Note: the Flex based pods for Alfresco ECM will support Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES too).

Overview of the prototype:

The prototype currently uses the Esria dashboard sample (inside a Flex+AIR application) as its portal container (also looking at the Anvil project to provide more modular support for loading Flex portlets).

Alfresco ECM / FlexSpaces tab:
The first tab in the prototype screencam has pods based on FlexSpaces (Doc Lib, Search, Tasks, WCM, Local Files). The cool thing in AIR is that desktop drag / drop into the Doc Lib and WCM pods just “works”. The Local Files pod takes advantage of AIR apis to access local files and drag / drop from it into the Doc Lib and WCM pods works too. FlexSpaces support for Calais integration semantic tagging is also supported if enabled.

Flex-ification of Alfesco Share tab:
This tab has the early beginnings of some Flex UI (blog, wiki, discussions, site doc lib, calendar) for Alfresco Share backend. For the calendar, I am using code based on Ely’s interactive calendar. For the overall Share dashboard and Share site dashboards, using the AIR webkit HTML control to display them (so Ajax Surf dashlets can be used in them). Update: for blog, wiki, discussions, now working on more specific UI instead of FolderViews (instead will have post/comment tree, selected item content viewer pane, etc.) Update: Later will look into pods for individual Surf dashlets.

JasperReports tab:
This tab is using a modified version of the flex based JasperReports flash viewer to display jrpxml files.

Charts tab:
This has left in pods from the ESRIA dashboard sample. These use the Quietly Scheming chart animation effects.

Pentaho tab:
This is based on a Flex version of the Pentaho dashboard sample.

Liferay tab:
This runs Liferay in a AIR webkit HTML control. Update: later will look into pods for individual Liferay portlets.

CMIS:
Update: Will look into pod for CMIS api repositories with drag / drop from desktop and with Alfresco pods

Adobe Genesis MAX 2008 presentation recording now on Adobe TV

Adobe TV added about 50 more MAX 2008 presentation recordings today including:

Genesis MAX 2008 presentation recording. This recording has both a presentation and a demo in it. (Genesis MAX 2008 presentation slides on SlideShare)

Also see my previous blog post on Adobe Genesis / Flex Portals / Open Source / FlexibleShare