Alfresco Portlet for IBM WebSphere Portal (JSR-286)
Alfresco document management features now available for IBM WebSphere Portal.
Alfstore is proud to announce the release of the new v2.0 Portlet for Alfresco that is fully tested on IBM WebSphere Portal, and compliant with other JSR-286 Portal containers (as Liferay).
{See the Alfresco Portlet demo}
Document management features:
The treeview portlet exposes the content of an Alfresco space in the tree-view way. It provides all in-line editing features for documents and folders.
This Portlet is as simple as a Windows explorer view, and the interface can really be used by non-advanced users (no training required).
{Options for document}
Through the portal, the user can then easily access to his/her documents. Of course, the Alfresco permissions are properly managed, and the user will only see the documents he/she is granted to.
Only the common document management operations are exposed, to make the interface as simple as possible:
Actions on folders:
- Create new folder, Delete, Refresh, Rename.
- Upload new document.
Actions on documents:
- Update (replace the current copy), Rename, Delete,
- Send the document link by email,
- Copy the document link to clipboard,
- Edit : user can edit and save a document directly online from the portal (using the CIFS or the WebDAV protocols).
Search feature:
- A google like search box is provided to search for documents in Alfresco.
- This feature use the Alfresco embedded search engine (Lucene).
Other features:
An advanced configuration mode allowing flexible appearance and functionality tuning. For example, the CIFS protocol can be disabled, and the user can select a specific space as the "root folder" to start the navigation.
The Portlet layout is light and small so it can be integrated on a multi-column page with others portlets.
{Multi-column integration}
Technology:
This Portlet was written for the IBM’s WebSphere Portal first of all (and fully tested on it), but does not use any WebSphere specific functionality, so it can run on others JSR-286 portals.
The Portlet uses the standard Alfresco Web Service, and is compliant with Alfresco DM v2.x, 3.x.
This Community version does not includes all the Enterprise features. However, a basic SSO mechanism is provided, so the Portlet can be easily tested.
Alfstore provides a commercial version for Enterprise customers.
This Enterprise version is fully supported by Alfstore with bugfix and maintenance (upgrade releases with new features).
For Alfstore customers, the commercial version is updated in lock-step with new versions of Alfresco and/or WebSphere Portal.
The Enterprise release v2.0 will be available for download on our website mid April (free 30 days trial). If you want to test it sooner, please feel free contact us: info@alfstore.com.
Enterprise version:
Along with a professional support, the commercial version includes more advanced features, like:
Support for Enterprise SSO solutions (SSO CAS, IBM LTPA, and simple to configure security token),
Search features (search Alfresco documents from Portal),
Rename action for folders and documents, Copy document link to clipoard action,
Browser support (IE and Firefox),
etc.
Learn More:
Please feel free to contact us (info@alfstore.com) for more information.
