Alfresco WCM Roadmap 2010 (Cheetah & Swift)
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The document provides an update on Alfresco's WCM roadmap. It discusses the release of a WCM Quick Start tool in September 2010 and details two upcoming projects: Project Cheetah focused on enhancing the Web Editor and slated for Q4 2010, and Project Swift focused on content authoring and publishing tools and slated for Q2 2011. It also outlines various new and enhanced features for composite content modeling, dependent associations, and the Web Producer interface.
Alfresco WCM Roadmap 2010 (Cheetah & Swift)
- 1. Alfresco WCM Roadmap Update – Aug 2010 Ben Hagan WCM Product Manager Brian Remmington WCM Architect
- 2. Agenda ● Release Schedule ● WCM Quick Start ● Project “Cheetah” ● Project “Swift” ● Q and A 2
- 3. Release Schedule ● 3.3 modules (add-ons) o Delivered outside of an Alfresco release cycle prior to Cheetah ● Project “Cheetah” (3.4 provisional) o Calendar Q4 2010 ● Project “Swift” (4.0 provisional) o Calendar Q2 2011 3
- 4. Provisional Release Timelines Alfresco Community Edition 2010 September 2011 WCM Q1 (Swift) Quick Start Cheetah Cheetah Q2 Swift Approx May November Alfresco Enterprise Edition
- 5. 3.3 Add-ons WCM Quick Start - Sep 2010 5
- 6. WCM Quick Start ● Best practice WCM implementation ● Authoring and delivery o Authoring extensions for Alfresco Share o Spring MVC web application, Surf and CMIS ● No core product changes, only extensions, built on Alfresco 3.3.0 ● Core product o Documented • Install Guide, User Guide, Developer Guide o Supported o Evolve with the product ● Enterprise and Community ● Utilizing the default store (not AVM) 6
- 7. WCM Quick Start Web Application HTTP Quick Start Website Quick Start Website API OpenCMIS CMIS (ATOM) Alfresco Share REST (JSON) Alfresco In-context Editing (Web Editor) 7
- 8. WCM Quick Start - Features Website Features (partial) ● Valid XHTML Strict, CSS driven ● Accessibility templates using jQuery ● UGC – Comments, ratings, report ● Fully dynamic site - sections and post pages ● Site Components ● 3 level navigation with cache o Featured News Carousel ● Hierarchical template resolution o Latest News based on section and type o Latest Blog Articles ● Home Page, News, Publications, o Related Content Blogs, Contact o News – All sections ● Site Search o Tags ● Sample content – easily re-purposed o Featured Content 8
- 9. WCM Quick Start - Features Editorial Features (partial) ● Preview ● Editorial management via Alfresco ● Publishing mechanism Share and Alfresco Web Editor ● UGC – Manage comments via Share (AWE) Data Lists ● Simple, automated installer ● Automated image resize ● Automated site creation – sample o Renditions automatically generated content types and content ● Associations Management ● Default site structure and sample content ● Manage section, type and template mappings ● Content Collections ● Content Tagging o Hand picked by editor o Dynamically generate • CMIS and Lucene search 9
- 10. Project “Cheetah” – Q4 2010 FOCUS: Web Editor Enhancements 10
- 11. Web Editor and Framework ● Web Editor and Framework provides: o In-context editing (Alfresco core product) o Extensible framework for developing in-context extensions (Spring) ● Simple tool for content editors o Page focused o Perform daily content activities without the need for a complex client tool o Context driven i.e. what can be done on THIS page? ● Web Editor Enhancements o Create new content o Delete content o FreeMarker Support 11
- 12. Web Editor New Content – “create a new one like this item” Type List - e.g. News Article Create a new content of type..... Edit, New, Delete icons Only types on the current page displayed 12
- 13. Project “Swift” – Q2 2011 FOCUS: Content Authoring & Content Publishing 13
- 14. Project Swift Content Authoring Content Publishing ● User Interface Enhancements ● Transfer o Web Producer o Enhanced reporting o Renditions, Images, Associations - Forms o Support for transfers in Share - initiate transfers from Share i.e. within Web ● Repository Enhancements Producer, and view histories of o Work Packages transfers. o Composite Content o Alfresco to file system transfer - transfer content to disk similar to the o Dependent Associations current AVM based FSR functionality. o Ordering of Node Associations o Support transferring model elements o Conditional Constraints (type and aspect definitions) ● Developer o Spring Surf 14
- 15. Content Model Enhancements Composite Content Composite Node To-do List Item ● Define nested, repeating elements, each one holding a group of properties Component Node ● Related Lifecycle o Composite deleted – component deleted Component Association o Composite transferred – component transferred o Composite versioned – component versioned Task o Composite checked out – component checked out Category Priority ● Component Association ● Development currently in progress http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Swift_Content_Model_Enhancements 15
- 16. Content Model Enhancements Dependent Associations News Article 1 News Article 2 ● Associate one content node with another in such a way as to imply a dependency ● WCM scenarios where a content item “relies” on another's existence ● Dependent Actions o A dependent node cannot be deleted Dependent Dependent Association Association o Transfer – dependent nodes are also transferred ● Unlike composites, the image node may be referenced by any number of other nodes – e.g. content sharing Image Item (dependant) 16
- 17. Content Model Enhancements Node (peer) Association Ordering ● Associations are used extensively within WCM scenarios ● Currently, child associations can be ordered however peer cannot ● WCM scenarios– creating a list of assets e.g. o related content 2 o featured products 1 o categorizations, etc. Peer 3 Associations 17
- 18. Web Producer ● Web Producer – A WCM specific user interface within Alfresco Share ● A tool for people who “Produce Websites” o Create websites o Manage structure and navigation hierarchies o Work Packages o Content Libraries o Deployments o Users and groups o Content editorial – forms interface o Content Preview 18
- 19. Share – New Site Type Collaboration Records Management Web Site Site Site (Web Producer) (DoD 5015.2) 19
- 20. Work Packages ● Collaboration and management ● Editorial Collaboration around assets for WCM scenarios o no editorial isolation ● Manage collections of content ● Permissions assets as a single entity ● Workflow driven model o Workflow o Transfer ● Features ● Track content changes o Categories o enabling nodes that are created, o CRUD updated, and deleted to be automatically o Workflow recorded against a work package o Search – for a Work Package ● API development in progress 20
- 21. Web Producer 21
- 22. Work Packages 22
- 23. Content Publishing Content Publishing ● Enhanced reporting ● Support for transfers within Share ● Alfresco to file system transfer ● Support transferral of model elements ● Support transferral of permissions 23
- 24. Spring Surf Status ● Spring Web Script/Surf Code Snippets ● Stability – towards 1.0 release ● Spring Surf Template Project ● Spring Surf Roo Addon ● Documentation ● Spring Web Script Runtime ● WCM Quick Start ● Spring Surf Update Site (in progress) o web application development ● Roo Addon for Spring CMIS (in progress) Developer Tools ● Template Project for Spring CMIS (in progress) ● Web Script Description Editor ● Template Project for Spring CMIS + ● Web Script Package Description Editor Spring Surf (in progress) ● Web Script Schema Description Editor ● Web Script FreeMarker Template Editor (in progress) ● JavaScript Editor Extension (in progress) ● Build and Package Using Maven 24
- 25. Thanks! ● Q and A. 25