Alfresco OpenCalais Integration Share UI

The Alfresco OpenCalais Integration now has UI (Spring Surf / HTML /JavaScript / YUI)  for Alfresco Share in addition to the support in FlexSpaces (Flex/Flash).  The Share UI has a semantic tag cloud dashlet, a geo-tagged (Google map based) semantic map dashlet, and an auto-tagging action.  The Share UI is for Alfresco 3.3 and 3.4.

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The dashlets will show semantic tags in all share sites when added to the overall Share dashboard, and show site specific semantic tags when added to site dashboards.  Clicking on a tag in the semantic tag cloud or on a semantic tag map marker will take you to a search results list of documents with the semantic tag.  The semantic tag cloud dashlet can be changed to show semantic tags for a specific category or all categories.

The semantic tag cloud dashlet is based on  Will Abson’s tag cloud dashlet in the Alfresco Share Extras collection. Will now also has a Google map dashlet in this collection showing geo-location of photo files using Tika extracted metadata available in Alfresco 3.4.

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The added auto-tag action menu (in more menu and details page) can be used to auto tag the selected document with the OpenCalais service. This action is added to both site document libraries and repository document library page menu.The auto-tagging action can also be setup in a content rule to auto-tag all documents in a folder in the rule UI of Alfresco Explorer or in Share (choose to perfom the action “Auto-tag with Calais”).

Note that semantic tags are implemented with categories with a custom root category. They won’t show up in regular Alfresco tag or category UI.  Currently only the Alfresco Explorer details page will list semantic tags (update 3/30/2011: will now show up the Share doc details page too in the 1.3.1 version of the OpenCalais integration).

FlexSpaces, in addition to having the semantic tag clouds, semantic map, and auto-tag action features in the Share UI, also has support for suggesting semantic tags and for editing what semantic tags are assigned to a document.  See the semantic features in action in this screen-cam of an older version of FlexSpaces.

FlexSpaces 0.6 released

Alfresco Share 3.0 Integration, Thumbnail View, CoverFlow View, edit/update, adv search finished, Alfresco 2.1-3.0 support

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

* 5 Flex based site page components that provide the functionality of FlexSpaces inside the 3.0 Share application (or Surf app, portal) running in a browser

* Also an experimental  FlexSpaces+AIR with tab for Share

(see FlexSpaces Share Components / FlexSpaces+Share 0.6 / forge section)

* Thumbnail and CoverFlow views (on 3.0)

* Advanced search finished (all features of the alfresco web client adv search except for custom attribute config, saved searches)

* Edit (checkout+download), update existing

* Context menus permission based enable/disable (in addition to main menus)

* Support for Alfresco 2.1-3.0 (tested with 2.2.0 Enterprise, 2.90C_dev Community, 3.0 Labs blds 1032,1066)

FlexSpaces 0.6 screenshots

FlexSpaces 0.6: Share 3.0 Integration, Thumbnail View, CoverFlow View, 2.2 Enterprise support

Here is a sneak peak at FlexSpaces 0.6, which is coming soon.  New features:

  • 5 Flex based site page components (flexspaces all views, doclib only, search only, tasks only, wcm only) that provide the functionality of FlexSpaces inside the Alfresco 3.0 Share application (or any Surf based app), portals
  • Thumbnail and CoverFlow views (when FlexSpaces+AIR, FlexSpaces+Browser, or FlexSpaces Site Components are running with 3.0)
  • Advanced search finished
  • Edit (checkout+download), update existing
  • Context menus permission based enable/disable (in addition to main menus)
  • Support for Alfresco 2.2.0 Enterprise (fixed problems running on versions before 2.9/3.0)

Share Site Customize.

Alfresco Share Customize Site with FlexSpaces Site Components

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FlexSpaces Thumbnail View

CoverFlow

FlexSpaces CoverFlow View

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Advanced Search