Alfresco 5.1 Apps and Features Preview Chris Kitchener – Director of Product Management
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Agenda
Alfresco5.1
Launch• 5.1 Feature Summary• App Walkthroughs
• Model and Form Designer for Content Modelling
• Virtual Folders and Metadata Inheritance• Easier Collaboration With Share
• Quick Recap of App and Platform Features• Questions
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Alfresco5.1
Launch
• Release Agility• Share Separation Lifecycle• Supportable Simple Module Format (JAR)
• API Lifecycle• Scalability
• Scale Alfresco to 1 Billion Documents• Solr Sharding• Improved Transactional Metadata Queries
• Scalability Field Collateral• Easier Upgrade
• Hot Fixes and Service Packs as Overlays• End of Life jBPM and NFS
Overall 5.1 Feature Summary – Platform
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Overall 5.1 FeatureSummary - Apps
Alfresco5.1
Launch
• Content Modelling• Model and Form Designer
• Virtual Folders
• Virtual Folders Surfaced In Share• Inheritance of Metadata
• Share Simplification• Optional Welcome Dashlet with Improved Content• Improved Visual Design and Accessibility
• Flexible Home Definition• Clearer Visibility and Explanation of Site Permissions
• Replacing Invites with Direct Membership• Take Ownership and Import Zip
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Alfresco 5.1 And Our Apps Demo User Personas
Barry The Business Analyst
Adam The Admin
Eric The End User
Alfresco5.1
Launch
Solving Interesting Problems For Our Users...
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• “I don’t want to have to set up or configure searches just to find something that should be in front of me anyway”
• “I don’t like learning ‘new ways to work’”
• “I hate typing in the same metadata time and time again…”Eric The End User
• “It’s hard to set up saved searches on steroids for my end users…”
• “Training my users to work in a new way is slow and painful”
• “There’s no simple way for metadata to be inherited”
• “It’s painful and slow to have to restart the server every time I make a change!”
Adam The AdminBarry The Business Analyst
The Zen Of Virtual Folders and Metadata Inheritance
• Virtual Folders combines the metaphor of pre-configured searches as folders and folder structures while enabling users to intuitively find content that automatically appears in the right business context as if by magic…
• Metadata inheritance allows you to configure content to automatically inherit defined metadata without any additional user actions…
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The Virtual Folder Design Workflow
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Specifiy
Business Case
Use Cases & Scenarios
Barry The Business Analyst
Define& ImplementDomain Model
CustomData Model
Define& ImplementApplication
Virtual Folder Templates
Adam The Admin
Test
Deploy
Productize
Eric The End User
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Alfresco5.1
Launch
• Release Agility• Share Separation Lifecycle• Supportable Simple Module Format (JAR)
• API Lifecycle• Scalability
• Scale Alfresco to 1 Billion Documents• Solr Sharding• Improved Transactional Metadata Queries
• Scalability Field Collateral• Easier Upgrade
• Hot Fixes and Service Packs as Overlays• End of Life jBPM and NFS
Overall 5.1 Feature Summary – Platform
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Overall 5.1 FeatureSummary - Apps
Alfresco5.1
Launch
• Content Modelling• Model and Form Designer
• Virtual Folders
• Virtual Folders Surfaced In Share• Inheritance of Metadata
• Share Simplification• Optional Welcome Dashlet with Improved Content• Improved Visual Design and Accessibility
• Flexible Home Definition• Clearer Visibility and Explanation of Site Permissions
• Replacing Invites with Direct Membership• Take Ownership and Import Zip