Alfresco 2.9B Available for Download

[kevinr]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Alfresco Community 2.9B.



This Community release is the second in the set of releases that will showcase upcoming Alfresco 3.0 product enhancements. This release also includes additional bugs fixes rolled up from our 2.1 Enterprise updates.

Our Community 2.9B release provides access to the following new team collaboration capabilities for test and evaluation:

* Project Spaces (image library, doc library, email-in archive, calendar, IM presence, blog integration)
* iGoogle Gadgets
* Extended Person Profile

Happy testing.

Alfresco Engineering

NOTE: as usual it will take SourceForge 24hrs+ to update it's mirrors!

[MikeH]

I'd also like to introduce Tagging within the Microsoft Office add-ins. This update only requires the Alfresco repository to be updated, not the client add-in code.

Document Tagging
The active document can be tagged (and untagged) using the new area within the Document Details tab.


Tag Cloud
A new "Tags" tab shows a repository-wide tag cloud. Clicking a tag will search for all documents so tagged.

As always, feedback on these new features is welcome and enouraged!

Thanks,
Mike

[Loftux]

Some really nice new features there, good job!

So the first thing I tested was to create a meeting. And meeting in swedish is möte, and only a-z is allowed for naming a meeting, could not have that word in my meeting.

So I hereby give you räksmörgås (shrimp sandwich) that contains all 3 extra characters in swedish alphabet. Cut and paste and use in all your testing.
A similar danish word is blåbærgrød (blueberry cream).

So have a look at meeting creation, same problem with tagging. Didn't work to use räksmörgås in tagging either.

I will do some more 'räksmörgås' testing for other stuff as well, will file those in JIRA if and when I find something.

Cheers,
Peter Löfgren

[jgerven]

Hi,
I have downloaded AlfrescoCommunity-2.9.0B-Setup.exe for windows, the installation works fine, but the alfresco.war file is not deployed.
So i am still on 2.9.0

Under Company Home I see the usual: Data Dictionary, Guest Home and User Homes Spaces, nothing more. The Projects Space is nowhere to be seen.

I renamed C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco to alfresco.old.
Restarted alfresco, and 2.9.0 B is deployed, but this should'nt be the way, is it?

Kind regards,

John van Gerven

[MikeH]

I renamed C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco to alfresco.old.
Restarted alfresco, and 2.9.0 B is deployed, but this should'nt be the way, is it?

From the Tomcat 5.5 documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc ... /host.html

If you redeploy an updated WAR file, be sure to delete the expanded directory when restarting Tomcat, so that the updated WAR file will be re-expanded...

Thanks,
Mike

[kevinr]

Some really nice new features there, good job!

So the first thing I tested was to create a meeting. And meeting in swedish is möte, and only a-z is allowed for naming a meeting, could not have that word in my meeting.

So I hereby give you räksmörgås (shrimp sandwich) that contains all 3 extra characters in swedish alphabet. Cut and paste and use in all your testing.
A similar danish word is blåbærgrød (blueberry cream).

So have a look at meeting creation, same problem with tagging. Didn't work to use räksmörgås in tagging either.

I will do some more 'räksmörgås' testing for other stuff as well, will file those in JIRA if and when I find something.

Cheers,
Peter Löfgren

The Calendar is very much Beta quality at the moment - please report all your issues in JIRA and we will get to fixing them.

Thanks for your comments,

Kevin

[jgerven]

I renamed C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco to alfresco.old.
Restarted alfresco, and 2.9.0 B is deployed, but this should'nt be the way, is it?

From the Tomcat 5.5 documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc ... /host.html

If you redeploy an updated WAR file, be sure to delete the expanded directory when restarting Tomcat, so that the updated WAR file will be re-expanded...

Thanks,
Mike

I have deleted the alfresco directory, restarted tomcat and everything works fine.
Thanks,
John

[MikeH]

Didn't work to use räksmörgås in tagging either.

Thanks for spotting this - it looks like an encoding problem with MSIE as it works fine using Firefox. I'll investigate and fix.

Thanks,
Mike

[SCHNEIKA]

Where can we download the 2.9b? The nightlybuilds 2.9devare from date 28-11-2007!

[jgerven]

Hi,

Is there documentation on what we can do with the Email Archive, Email Alias, Email ID ? (How to configure, how does it work?)

I also see that every object has an Email ID, how can we use this Email ID.

John.

[kevinr]

We have cleared space on the dev machine so hopefully the nightly build should go up today.

Get the 2.9B release from here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... _id=143373

Kevin

[kevinr]

Hi,

Is there documentation on what we can do with the Email Archive, Email Alias, Email ID ? (How to configure, how does it work?)

I also see that every object has an Email ID, how can we use this Email ID.

John.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Email_Ser ... figuration

[fselendic]

Nice release, great new features

Regarding calendar, once upon a time we had some code that was adding CalDav functionality to Alfresco 1.4. Would you guys be interested in something like that (enabling access to CalDav clients)?

Also, question related to general 2.9 release; what are ECM Forms and how can we test them? Any documentation on those?

[olivier.migeot]

Nice release, great new features

Agrees on that.

Regarding calendar, once upon a time we had some code that was adding CalDav functionality to Alfresco 1.4. Would you guys be interested in something like that (enabling access to CalDav clients)?

I don't know about developers, but that would be a very good idea. We are currently storing our organizational calendars in Alfresco through WebDAV, but CalDAV should be even better for that purpose, shouldn't it?

Also, question related to general 2.9 release; what are ECM Forms and how can we test them? Any documentation on those?

From what I understood, you create an XML-schema file in /Data dictionnary/Forms and then when you create new content you have the opportunity to select this "schema" and create a document based on it.

Or maybe there is more than that?

[kevinr]

DM forms (defined in "Forms" space, from an XSD) work in the same way as Web Forms (defined in "Web Forms" space, from an XSD) but don't support renditions. Once defined, use "Create Content" to select form and create / edit the XML (via generated form UI). There are some docs here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Dev ... #ECM_Forms

There will be improved docs for DM forms soon!

Thanks,

Kevin