Yes, the organization of the wiki can be chaotic. The wiki is maintained by the community, so if you’d like to help organize it, please do. At our Developer Conference last week I met some others who are also interested in making this better. By the way, if you are looking for documentation, an additional resource to consider is http://docs.alfresco.com. It isn’t as deep as the wiki in many respects, but depending on what you are looking for, it might work better for you.

Jira is something that the Engineers have been focusing on even more lately. They have been working towards a goal of having every issue dealt with in some way (fix, mark as won’t fix, identify as not a problem, etc.). So ongoing work is taking place there.

I’m glad you are evaluating Alfresco as something to specialize in. It is a hot technology and because we’re based on standard frameworks and libraries, the skills you learn will be applicable even to your non-Alfresco projects.

We both agree that Community Edition is an important gateway to Enterprise Edition and that if people are frustrated with Community, they may move on to some other technology and never become and Enterprise user.

Thanks for the comment and I hope that, rather than getting frustrated and leaving, you’ll stick around long enough to get engaged and help work on some of these issues to make it better for the next person that comes along.

Jeff

i had the intention to be specialized in Alfresco, and add it to the technical culture in my country, Jordan, but this needs a convenient community solution, so that people adopt the Enterprise one, if things continue like this, i would look for another solution as a DMS!

Do you mean that the users cannot start the workflow at all or they can start the workflow but cannot move the workflow forward?

If it is the latter, what logic do you have in the workflow? Are you taking actions against the documents in the workflow? If so, does the user managing the workflow task have the appropriate permissions on those documents?

Things to try:
– Are there any users at all that can successfully execute the workflow? If so, what’s different about those users when compared to the users who are not successful?
– Can admin? If admin can but the other users cannot, try giving the users Coordinator access. If that works, you know it is a permissions problem.

If no one (not even admin) can successfully execute the workflow, you’ve got a problem in the workflow somewhere. Use the debugger (both Eclipse and Rhino JavaScript) to resolve.

Good luck,

Jeff

“Failed to reject the document due to system error: 07100009 Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this operation.”

There’s no doubt that in many cases, questions that are brought up that should result in a wiki update or a JIRA ticket, so you make a valid point. It is great when forum members can go the extra mile and make those changes on the wiki and submit JIRA tickets when they are appropriate.

Regarding Share, Alfresco has started to use Surf (the framework Share is built with) for its own stuff. The Enterprise Network site (http://network.alfresco.com) is an example. It’ll be interesting to see when/if Alfresco migrates its current forums to Share-powered forums.

Jeff

Btw, you’ve made excellent job with these “Developer Series”, thanks a lot !

On a related note, ought not the community be using Alfresco Share to collaborate on the content which comprises the wiki?