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Documents inside a repository (Alfresco)

7/25/2007 6:01 AM EDT

By Daniel Gradecak

Hello,

we would like to use team elements and add more capabilities to its documents management. We would like to integrate it with Alfresco repository. So I had a look into the team elements code, and i think that the classes that need to be changed are com.zeroio.item.base.File* (10 classes) are there any other classes that are responsible for document management?

Did anybody else thought of such a possibility?

What do you guys, the team elements developers, think of that idea? I do not think it should be a big big deal, of course it will take some time to test it, do you have some unit testing, i did not see ?

May be would be better to use the JCR api, so it can be compatible with other JCR implementations, probably that i will use alfresco web services in a first time.

Regards,
Daniel

1. 7/25/2007 9:17 AM EDT

By Matt Rajkowski

Concursive Corporation
Product Design

Hello Daniel,

I certainly see that the Documents tab could be replaced with integration into Alfresco. The actions are in ProjectManagementFiles* and one in ProjectManagement.

A couple of items to work through though:

- Whenever a document is uploaded into CTE, it is indexed by Lucene and made available for searching; that behavior would be nice to keep

- The benefits to Alfresco document management are impressive; can you tell us what benefits would envision?

- There are some other areas in CTE that use the FileItem* files directly, so I'm not sure if you intend to replace the usage with Alfresco document management or just the Documents tab

2. 7/25/2007 1:03 PM EDT

By Daniel Gradecak

Hi Matt,

"I certainly see that the Documents tab could be replaced with integration into Alfresco. The actions are in ProjectManagementFiles* and one in ProjectManagement."

Thank you, for that info!

"- Whenever a document is uploaded into CTE, it is indexed by Lucene and made available for searching; that behavior would be nice to keep"

alfresco also uses lucene and indexes all the contents. so the document search could be done on alfresco side, and just egt the results back, am i right? Do you think we lose something with that?

"- The benefits to Alfresco document management are impressive; can you tell us what benefits would envision?"

All the benefits a real repository has ... such as check in/out, automatic versioning ... and a lot more.
Alfresco also has a CIFS interface, so this could be cool to attach documents to a project, just as simple as you drop a document into a folder on your OS. You can map a CIFS folder, and that is it ...

Just a few things that would be pretty cool to have.

regards,
Daniel

- There are some other areas in CTE that use the FileItem* files directly, so I'm not sure if you intend to replace the usage with Alfresco document management or just the Documents tab

3. 9/18/2007 11:53 AM EDT

By Filip Selendic

Done with most of integration with Alfresco. If you guys are interested in results, feel free to contact me.

Filip Selendic
Protenus d.o.o.
COO
fselendic@protenus.com

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