I saw that the Alfresco Cloud edition has nice share/publish features:
(source: alfresco.com)
Now I could not find this in the community edition, even though I found a place in the Admin Console under Content Publishing called Channel Manager where you can add different publish channels. I did not find a way to make use of them though!
Still my main question would be how to be able to generate public links for non users to access certain files.
Thanks!
The Alfresco Cloud is very new (it only went GA last week!). As such, it features quite a few new bits since the latest Alfresco Community 4.0 release, which came out at the start of the year. The "Public Share" feature is one of those.
The Alfresco 2012 Product Roadmap has been announced, which should give you an idea of what features are likely to be coming in the next Community Release, later this year. Almost all of the new features from the Cloud have either already been merged to Head already, or will be merged before the next Community release. I don't know if the public sharing will be merged or not (you'd need to pin down one of the product managers for a definitive answer on if that's something that'll be merged to community/enterprise, or if it's something that's too specific to the Cloud setup (so can't easily be re-used by other setups). In the mean time, you can keep an eye on the checkins to HEAD!
(If the feature you're interested in from Cloud has already been committed to head, then you can grab a nightly build and start playing with it aleady!)
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As the lead architect, I had no problem installing EPiServer CMS system, installing a test site (Alloy), and start writing MVC code in Visual studio to see what it could and could not do. This was assisted by EPiServer offering 6 video training courses which covered development, deployment hosting and enough about authoring to understand the key concepts (visitor groups, blocks, DAM etc). Now the organisation I consulted for is spending more than £100k per month on EPiserver licenses (3 DXC instances)
Now I have to evaluate AEM for a new project and new company. After considerable time searching for developer documentation, I found a guide to install AEM on a local machine with eclipse, Java 8 etc. However, it needs a license.properties. I found several posts asking how to get his, but none with a resolution. One has a link to a form which does not exist.
I filled out the sales contact form, as Adobe offer no way to contact them about AEM (no email, no chat) etc. I got no reply.
I also posted on the AEM adobe forum, asking if where was any way for a developer or consultant to get a license to evaluate the product from a technical perspective. I linked to a few of the older posts asking the same question, and pointed out that the links they provided were now dead. My post was deleted by Adobe. I have no idea why, unless they are trying to stop new customers from seeing their product before paying for it?
Any other developers or architects out there found a way to get a local dev trial license if your organisation has not purchased one?
Register on their partners portal : https://solutionpartners.adobe.com
Request product access here (here they force you to login) - https://solutionpartners.adobe.com/download/aemform/
In about 1-2 working days you get a download link and a license key. (Last I had to request access was quite sometime back so things might have changed)
We would like to manage a project structure where individual projects can take a part in a top level project structure sharing a single resource pool. It should be possible for individual authors to work on those individual projects, or possibly the same project, at the same time.
We are familiar with co-authoring in excel, word, etc (through sharepoint) and it works fine. We have licences for MS project 2019. But we can't seem to find a way to set up co-authoring, or find any definite statement as to whether it is even possible with project.
I have seen "Microsoft Project Server 2019" and "Project Online" mentioned, are these different products and are these needed?
Any guidance or info about this would be much appreciated,
Project Online is the Azure based version of the good old Project Server for on-premises. Both are so called Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management Tools. If you are looking for co-authoring in sense of concurrent editing, you will not be satisfied with both of them: You must checkout and checkin a plan for editing. If you are looking for true concurrent co-authoring you should take a look at the oncoming new Project Service. It explicitly allows co-authoring. Nevertheless it starts with very limited features, it is supposed to grow soon and fast.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/25/a-new-vision-for-modern-work-management-with-microsoft-project/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Project-Blog/A-letter-to-our-Microsoft-Project-community/ba-p/260891
Morning/afternoon/evening all,
I am building a website for a rental property in France and the client wants to be able to use a single solution to manage bookings across the following platforms: Booking.com, AirBNB, Abritel (French) and Gites de France. Ideally, with the possibility of integrating TripAdvisor later.
So, when the centralised platform is updated, it updates across all the other platforms automatically. And when a booking is made, it feeds through to the centralised system.
I am highly doubtful that this one-shop solution exists but thought I would ask anyway. If it doesn't exist, would a bespoke solution be possible? Any other suggestions welcome.
Thank you
EDIT: I have learned that websites such as AirBnb can sync with iCal and Google Calendar. I wonder if this could be a simpler solution.
its is very possible provided the third party platforms have services that can be called for data exchange..... first check for the services exposed by those platforms and how to consume them.
I am trying to figure out what is the exact difference between a document management system and archives management system? For example, what is the difference between Alfresco and Archivesspace (http://www.archivesspace.org/)?
Can Alfresco function as an archives management tool? What is the difference between the two? I read there is a record management module in Alfresco, is this what is meant by archives management?
Can Alfresco be used as an Archives Management System? Yes, of course. One real world example of this is the New York Philharmonic. They digitized their musical scores and associated artifacts going back to 1842 and then made them available online for researchers. Here is a video about it.
At its heart, Alfresco is a repository that allows you to capture any type of file, secure those files, route those files through workflows, search across the files, and associate metadata with each file. What I've just described are what most people would consider the basic set of functionality present in any worthwhile document management system.
Now, what makes that specific to archival purposes? I'm not an archivist. That's a highly-specialized field. One thing that is missing from my list of functionality above is "capture" or how the artifacts you are archiving will get into the system. This depends on exactly what it is you are archiving. One might use document scanners or high-end photography equipment, for example. None of that is addressed by Alfresco. You'll have to use third-party hardware and software and then integrate it, although many integrations exist between Alfresco and third-party capture vendors.
So I would say, yes, Alfresco can be used for archives management. But perhaps more importantly than considering whether or not a piece of software can be given a label, you should be thinking about how your users will use the software and what it is they need to get done. Then focus on how each of the packages you are evaluating can be used to achieve those goals to try to figure out whether or not each package will be a fit.
The difference is that ArchivesSpace is an 'archives information management system', whereas Alfresco is a full 'content management system', which means that it can manage any type of content.
What ArchivesSpace is:
ArchivesSpace Version 1.0 was completed in August 2013. It includes basic functionality for accessioning, processing, description, digital object description, and authority control workflows for archival material, as well as for searching descriptions and exporting metadata objects such as EAD, MARCXML, MODS, Dublin Core, METS, and CSV.
http://www.archivesspace.org/developmentplan
As for Alfresco:
The Alfresco One platform allows organizations to fully manage any type of content from simple office documents to scanned images, photographs, engineering drawings and even large video files.
http://www.alfresco.com/products/one/aws?utm_expid=11184972-12.IcCW-3j6RMavigPGfjODyw.1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alfresco.com%2F
What the difference ultimately comes down to is not what it can store but what functionality you get in addition. ArchivesSpace seems to be a simple implementation of a document storage system that stores documents in collections with associated metadata. Alfresco also offers workflows, custom actions, previews, sites, wikis etc.
If your specific use case is related to archiving off documents specifically and you want something that will already be good at this then go ahead and use ArchivesSpace, if not, or if you want to expand the system out in future, then Alfresco will likely be able to do more but will likely take more effort to configure to your specific use case as you will have to create a custom content model and such.
Alfresco Records Management is for managing documents that will likely have some legal significance, such as court papers, official government department responses etc, and as such their creation and destruction need to be closely managed. As far as I can see this is not something ArchivesSpace can do.
(Full disclosure: I work for an Alfresco partner)
How would I programmatically connect to an existing back-end system of a restaurant using say Micros POS, with a web app built with .Net and C#. Thanks.
Update: Sorry for the ambiguity but I'd like to set up an online ordering system that takes users' orders and forward to a restaurant's back-end system to be processed and printed in the kitchen for cooks to see.
There is no particular reason for choosing .Net other than the fact I'm most familiar with it. I'm open to other options.
In general I'm looking for information regarding the feasibility of this and how to go about it programmatically. How would my app send orders to the kitchen's printers? Do restaurant back-end systems allow for a .Net (or any other) app communicate with it? Do they provide an API?
I currently work at an ISV that does basically this with another one of the big 3 point of sale systems.
First and foremost, get the Micros environment up in a VM.
Next, most of these back office systems are running either Windows 2000 or Windows XP (depending on the age of the system), so be really careful about the version of .Net you choose.
Now, as far as architecture goes, run a service on the back office that communicates regularly with a centralized web service (the website that customers order on), once an order is made available, from there you can then insert it into <insert pos type here>.
You will also find in most instances, especially with Micros being the largest Point of Sale on the market for restaurants, they will not be very helpful with documentation and helping you out with integrating into their software.
Also, I think that My Micros (their enterprise application) already supports this type of functionality.
Another opinion, get into FSTech this year and browse all the competition, there are tons for online ordering just so you can get familiar with the competitions feature sets.
What you need to know is define what you want to do with the POS before a choice of technology, if all you want to do is show some data/reports from the POS system's work, you would need to connect to whatever back-end database the POS devices feed into.
If you need to do something else, you need to look for whatever relevant documentation.
It would help you more to ask a more specific question.
I would probably start by determining if Micros POS has an API. If they do, are the systems at individual restaurants even connected to the net? Try chatting up the manager at a place that uses one of these systems, or just check the documentation on their website.