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The technology preview is only a first release of the Alfresco system. It is not a complete system, but a demonstration of what we are building and the approach that we are taking. Over the next several months we will be adding a lot of new functionality. We look forward to working with the community to prioritize the work ahead and to provide continuous feedback on how various components are performing.
- Glossary Support
The glossary is the data dictionary for a space and all of its folders. Contained in the glossary are types, rules, policies, categories and aspects. The portal will support the specification of all of these although many are already supported by the repository.
- Types Administration
Present a simple user interface for users to create types, mixins and categories. Currently these are only supported through modeling tools.
- Personalization
The portlets in the portal will support preferences for how items are displayed as well as remembering what information and content a user is interested in.
- Dashboard view
Provide the user with a process view on a space including a micro-site view of the space for outside users.
- Security and User Management
Using role-based access control, provide a complete security model and management of access control and user profiles.
- Automated Services
Using the aspect-oriented capabilities of the repository, add the ability to automatically classify, summarize and transform content and automated creation of associations between content objects and business objects. These services are pluggable and possible for others to override.
- Complex Workflow
Using BPEL, support complex business processes for managing compliance processes.
- WebDAV
Complete WebDAV and DeltaV support.
- Aspect Management
Provide a user interface and infrastructure for the management and control of aspects to be introduced into content types. This will allow developers to plug in their own aspects and have the portal and repository identify this capability.
- Scripting Language Support
The ability to create aspects (e.g. classification) using languages such as PHP or Perl. Provide access to the Alfresco object model to those languages as well as callback mechanisms in Java.
- Advanced Search User Interface
The Alfresco query language is very powerful with the ability to combine complex expressions with powerful categorization techniques. The user interface will provide users with a simple interface to exploit these capabilities.
- Federated Search
The ability to search multiple repositories in a single search and ability to specify complex search scopes.
- Fail-safe Content Services
The ability to back-up, restore, archive and purge content in combination with administration interfaces.
- Associations and Link Management
Provide a user interface for the creation of named, well-known associations between various content objects (e.g. translation-of, copied-from, references) and business objects.
- Complex Branch and Merge
The ability to branch and merge entire trees with complete transaction control (either it all happens or it doesn't).
- Distributed Synchronization
Add the ability to synchronize two repositories that are physically separated and resolve any conflicts. Uses the branch and merge capability.
- Thumbnails
Provide a thumbnail view for image galleries including the transformation of images to smaller images for a light-box view of images.
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