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Ixxus – Globally Agile Monday 4th July 2011
I was pondering the other day how the profile of our client engagements has been changing over the past couple of years. It is now the case that probably over 50% of our projects are globally based, and yet the Ixxus team have barely batted an eyelid.
How to configure different Themes for Alfresco Share sitesMonday 27th June 2011
A client recently asked if it was possible to have an Alfresco Share theme applied to one particular site and not to the rest of the sites or user dashboards? What they wanted was basically to be able to configure a different theme per site. So for example, a training related site would use one theme (e.g. blue inspired) and a knowledge base site would use another theme (e.g. green inspired).
Surfing with CMISTuesday 17th May 2011
Ixxus were recently commissioned by a well established firm to develop a small publicly accessible web site. The goal of the site was to increase customer numbers for their subscription service and improve public awareness of who they are and what services they provide. The site had to be lightweight, fast, SEO friendly, and produced in a relatively short period (No change there!). To develop this site the framework would need to support rapid development but also be stable enough to produce a robust web facing site.
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)Tuesday 5th April 2011
What is CMIS?
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a specification for accessing content management systems. It is an open specification maintained by the standard body OASIS which consists of contributors from many of the main ECM suppliers including Alfresco, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft to name a few.
Alfresco Transfer Service 3.3.3 - Getting StartedWednesday 30th March 2011
As part of a customer requirement to expose publications to multiple Alfresco repositories, along with a recent version upgrade to Alfresco 3.3.3, we decided to implement and extend the Alfresco Transfer service. Initial findings found it very easy to get going, and soon had an out of the box transfer service between two Alfresco instances configured with one class - the custom action, and a couple of spring context file changes to wire up the beans. What is particularly nice is that no configuration is required to turn on the transfer service at either the source or target end.
A searching question...Wednesday 23rd March 2011
How can you efficiently index content without polluting or tightly coupling your business logic to a search engine API?
Crawling is one option, but it isn't necessarily that efficient nor do you have fine grained control over the fields that are stored in the search index documents. For one customer project we built an elegant asynchronous event driven indexing mechanism.
- 2010 – a content interoperability odyssey
Monday 7th March 2011
At the start of a new year it’s always interesting to look back at the year that has just gone - arguably the most important event for content management in 2010 was the ratification of CMIS 1.0 in May. Content Management Interoperability Services is an open standard to enable greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and is built on top of other proven open web standards such as Atom and OpenSearch. Alfresco has been at the forefront of CMIS and Alfresco 3.3 provided full support for CMIS 1.0 (some of the earlier versions implemented drafts of the CMIS standard).
Alfresco for Not for ProfitMonday 21st February 2011
The Not for Profit (NFP) sector faces many unique challenges in choosing and providing technical solution to their everyday, and often complex, processes. Financial pressures are often at the core of many of these hurdles but so too is external appreciation from suppliers that the NFP sector is unique - not only in its requirements but also in its approach to technology.
- Monitor and Manage Alfresco via JMX
Monday 21st February 2011
The Java platform, Tomcat, and Alfresco comes with support for a technology called JMX that enables monitoring and management of application resources.
Alfresco AVM Store Behaviors and PoliciesMonday 21st February 2011
Alfresco provides a powerful way of customizing content via user-defined behaviors. These behaviors allow you to create reusable pieces of code which gets executed each type a custom "actions" happens on your content. These custom actions include: creation of content, updating of content, adding aspects and more.
