[UPDATE: Due to the popularity of this post, Thorsten had to relocate his screencasts to this page, so I’ve removed the individual links and added a link to the entire collection. I’m also adding bullets for two new features he recorded screencasts for since the original post]
I came across this today via Twitter. Thorsten Schminkel (@schminkel) has posted a collection of screencasts that highlight new Alfresco Share features currently checked in to Alfresco Community head. Each is about a minute or less–just enough to get the gist of the following features:
- Trashcan
- In-place file name editor
- Video preview
- Manage system users
- Change logo
- Image preview dashlet
- Drag-and-drop import
- User-defined document library sorting
- Like counter
- Email notification configuration
- User import via CSV
The latest official release of Alfresco Community is 3.4.d. Last month Alfresco released a preview release called 3.4.e meant to give everyone a first look at the new Activiti integration. None of the features Thorsten shows in these screencasts are available yet in an official release. Look for an official Community release to happen in late Summer or early Fall with an Enterprise release by the end of the year. If you can’t wait, you can do what Thorsten did: Check out the latest Community code from subversion, build it, and have fun playing with these and other new features.
Alternatively, functionally similar versions of some of these features have already been implemented by members of the community for versions of Alfresco in use today:
- Video preview with flowplayer
- Image preview through CoolIris integration
- Five Star Ratings service and widgets for Alfresco Share
Thanks for doing those screencasts, Thorsten, and let me know if you create any more so we can add them to the list.
Good staff,
Finally with the next release and the dashlets project We could leave apart Explorer and use only Share to manage Alfresco ?
What things left to be done ?
Yes, off the top of my head, I think that is true. When you add in Will Abson’s node browser for Share, I think that finally eliminates the need for Explorer.
Jeff
When I visit the screencast page, it says, “This content is currently unavailable. Please contact the content owner for more information.”
The screencasts have been moved to http://www.schminkel.de/alfresco-blog/alfresco-35.html
Hi Jeff,
As you posted above after adding Node browser for share in Will Abson’s, Explorer can be eliminated. So can you please tell me by using this can we manage security in Document Library as we have in Explorer for DMS.
Ashwini,
Yes, in Share you can go into the “Repository” view. When looking at folders in the repository view, you have the same permission setting capability that is available in Explorer.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff for your update.
Is it possible to hide the node called my dashboard,Site or people from the Alfresco Share because after providing security also one can create a site .
Ashwini,
You can hide those things, but you have to customize the user interface to do it. They cannot be hidden through configuration.
Jeff
Thanks a lot Jeff for your information.