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Alfresco WCM

Really Simple Web Content Management

Ben Haganwww.alfresco.com


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Agenda

Alfresco WCM Overview

Types of supported users

Web Forms

File System Projection

User Roles

Workflow

Sandboxes

Virtualisation Server

Static vs Dynamic

File System Receiver

Alfresco Server Receiver

Snapshots

Demonstration


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Alfresco WCM

Content Production Production Model

Sandboxes

Transparent Layers

Workflow

Roles

Virtualisation

File system Projection

Content Delivery Deployment

Alfresco Runtimes

Static vs Dynamic Runtimes


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What types of users aresupported?

Web Designers / Developers

Support any tool for authoring, development

Support any number, type of website

Integrated staging, preview, and deployment

Application Developers

Code versioning, testing, staging

Content Managers / Web Publishers

XML-based publishing, transformation, preview

Content Reviewers

Email-based task notification, management

Content Contributors Drag-and-drop Word document

Automatic transformation, publishing to Web

Architects


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What types of users aresupported?

Designers

Authors

Content Model

Template

Repository


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Alfresco WCM

Content Production


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Content Authoring - WebForms

Web Forms


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Web Forms XML Schema

XForms

Templates (XSLT, Freemarker, XSL-FO, Custom)T

Multi-channel output (renditions)M


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Alfresco WCM

Web FormWeb FormContent Type

XML Schema

XSD File

Content Author

Multi ChannelTemplateRendition

WebMobile Print


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Content with templates

Separates content from

presentation. Templates

can change independent of

content.

Applied statically in

Alfresco just after the

content is authored.

Pre-baked

Template

+

Content


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Filesystem Projection

CIFS Interface

Webdav

FTP

Editorial tool of choice

Dreamweaver

Eclipse

Notepad etc


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Content Manager

Content Publisher

Content Contributor

Content Reviewer

Editorial Power

Role Relative User Population

Content Manager Few

Content Publisher Some

Content Contributor Many

Content Reviewer Implementation Dependent

Roles


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Workflow

Serial and parallel review configurable OOTB

Tasks

Task notification task list

Contain an entire change set

Review layers virtualization server Reviewers see in-context view of users changes against current site

Workflow configuration

Workflows can be configured for each form or for any arbitrary set of

non-form assets


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Sandboxes

Repository

Staging Sandbox

User Sandboxes

User Sandbox Preview, undo, check

links for individualupdates and sites

Staging Sandbox Preview all approved

updates Review snapshots

(previous versions)( Revert to previous

Content edited in isolation

Content must be approvedbefore merging with stagingsandbox.

Preview with virtualized webserver.


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Sandboxes Cont..

User sandboxes

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Sandboxes under thecovers..

A user sandbox acts like a sheet of glass sitting on top of thestaging sandbox.

Until modified, any object (file or folder) viewed in a user sandbox is

actually seen directly in the staging sandbox, as if through glass.

When modified, the object is copied into the user sandbox and themodifications saved there. The original version remains unchanged

in the staging sandbox.

Upon successful completion of workflow, the modified version of the

object is promoted into the staging sandbox, replacing the version

that was previously there.


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Virtualization

Isolated preview environment for every user sandbox and the stagingsandbox

Users only see their changes

No physical servers required

Supports preview of modified content & code (JSP pages, class files, jars)S

Minimizes in-memory footprint


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Virtualization Cont..

How is it used?

Preview sandbox

Preview a single content asset


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Alfresco WCM

Content Delivery


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Approve and deploy

Forms-based XML capture Email-based production

workflow

In-context testing

Whole website versioning

Code and content development

Parallel branching and merging

Static or dynamic deployment

to one or more servers Dependency management and

automated updates

AuthoringSandbox

Preview

Sandbox

Staging

Sandbox

Deployment

Change

Sets

Change

Sets


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Static or Dynamic?

The single most significant decision when planning a web contentmanagement solution is whether the front end web site will be static or

dynamic. This decision impacts virtually everything else in the

implementation:.

Delivery technology

Page compositing

Deployment mechanism

Personalization

Performance

Application developer skill-sets

Static

Web servers

Submission time

Filesystem (FSR)

Limited

Ultimate

Freemarker, XSLT, XSLT-FO

Dynamic

Application servers

Request time

Alfresco Runtime (ASR)

Unlimited

Less than static

Any web technology


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Delivery Environment

Intelligent File System Receiver (FSR)

Delivering static content e.g. via Apache

Dynamic Website Alfresco Server Receiver (ASR)

Search

User generated content

Firewall

FSR

Or

ASR

Deploy


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File System Receiver (FSR)

Standalone application installed on delivery server(s)

Allows files to be deployed to the remote machine using

the in-built deployment functionality

Much like a file copy

Alfresco Server Receiver


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Alfresco Server Receiver(ASR)

Alfresco repository installed in the production webenvironment

Why use an ASR?

As the search engine for the web site (applicable for

both dynamic and static web sites) As a runtime content store that can be queried by a

dynamic web application.

Any other dynamic process personalization, User

Generated Content etc


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A Hybrid Model?

A third option exists that straddles the fence between static anddynamic.

In this model you build the front end web site to support the dynamic

model, but leverage the static model wherever possible

eg. pre-generating the HTML for page components that rarely

vary between pages


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Hybrid FSR and ASR

Improvesperformance by

distributing content

to different servers

or CDNs (Akamai)

Internal AuthoringEnvironment

External Facing Site

Content (Alfresco Runtime or Static)

Images (Static)

Multimedia (Static)


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Deployment

Manual or Automatic

Deploy Staging to 1 or more:

File System Receivers (FSR)

Alfresco Server Receivers (ASR)

Can also deploy any snapshots

Monitoring and logging

Transactional

Incremental


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Deployment Cont

Deployment is initiated from the Recent Snapshots list in the stagingsandbox:

Note: This option is not available unless deployment targets have

been configured for the web project


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Deployment Cont

Select which target(s) to deploy a snapshot to:


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Tracking Updates

Snapshots Rollback Deploy

Each submission versions each file & parent directories

Each submission snapshots staging sandbox

Recovers deletions, moves, renames, etc.

Allows website to rollback to any point in time


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Alfresco WCM

Demonstration


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Really Simple Web ContentManagement

Ben Haganwww.alfresco.com

Thank You


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