Roadmap 2011

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Roadmap

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Table of Contents

• 1 Alfresco Product Roadmap 2011
  
  • 1.1 Project Swift: Planned Availability - Community Q3 2011, Enterprise Q4 2011
    
    • 1.1.1 Share User Experience
    • 1.1.2 Rich & Creative Media Support
    • 1.1.3 Socializing Content
    • 1.1.4 Following Connections
    • 1.1.5 Repository
      
      • 1.1.5.1 Clustering and Scaling
      • 1.1.5.2 Modeling
      • 1.1.5.3 Localization
      • 1.1.5.4 Notification Service
      • 1.1.5.5 Development & Extensibility
      • 1.1.5.6 Business Process Management
    • 1.1.6 CMIS
    • 1.1.7 Administration
    • 1.1.8 Web Content Management

Alfresco Product Roadmap 2011

Project Swift: Planned Availability - Community Q3 2011, Enterprise Q4 2011

Focus: Reposititory Scalability and Reliability, Client Extensibility, Social Content Management & Social Publishing

Share User Experience

• Drag n' drop upload from the desktop
  
  • HTML5 based
    
  • Parallel Uploads
    
• Dashlet Layout Enhancements
  
  • Dashlets updated to ensure consistent layout, look and feel
    
  • Contextual help * Site Configuration
    
  • Page components can be added/removed from a site via Drag n' Drop
    
  • Application specific page component names. e.g Document Library in a particular site could be titled “Contracts”
    
• Site Branding
  
  • Themes can be applied on a per-site basis
    
• Refactored and simplified Site Calender for improved usability
  
• Application Branding
  
  • Easily apply different application logo for branding
    
• Inline editing of common properties such as Document Name
  
• Details Page Refactor
  
  • Enlarged preview area for improved readability
    
  • Hide/reveal panels for Actions, Properties, Vesions etc
    
  • Simplified commenting interaction
    
  • Current view automatically stored as individual user preference
    
• Contextual 'Pop-up' Help
  
• Document Library Sorting
  
  • Sort based on Name, Title, Description, Rating and more
    
  • Ascending/Decending
    
• Wiki layout enhancements, TOC Generation.
  
• Export Datalist as Spreadsheet
  
• Purge/Restore Deleted Items
  

Rich & Creative Media Support

• Video and Audio Playback (Previews)
  
  • Audio - MP3
    
  • Video - Flash Video. H.264, OGG and WebM
    
• Thumbnail & Preview support for addtional formats including Apple iWorks
  

Socializing Content

• Ratings
  
  • 'Like' based ratings for content and folders
    
• Comment Counts
  
• Push activity notifications via email see also Notification Service
  
• Activity Dashlet - fine grained filtering options such as Activity Type, User
  
• Publishing content from the document library to external service providers such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and so on
  

Following Connections

• Social style following connections between users
  
• Personal management of I'm Following user lists
  
• Feed and email based event notifications (status updates, content, comments, following etc) for users I'm Following
  

Repository

Clustering and Scaling

• Separate Indexing Process built on SOLR
  
• Indexing Process and storage can be shared across clustered servers
  
• Repository APIs support Database based queries, paging, sorting and filtering
  
• Improved cache propagation
  

Modeling

• Constraints enhancements
  
  • Internationalised 'List Of Values' Constraint
    
  • Dynamic List Of Values Constraint
    
• Encrypted properties
  
• Ordering of peer associations
  

Localization

• Node Localization - Locale recorded against node for indexing
  

Notification Service

• Activity Notifications
  
• Opt in/out of email based notifications
  
• Personal controls over notification frequency
  
• Template based, richly formatted HTML email notifications
  

Development & Extensibility

• OpenCMIS client on Surf/Share tier
  
• Configurable document library actions and views
  
• Extension Modules
  
• Forms
  
  • Action Forms
    
  • Configuration only Forms (general purpose dialog)
    

Business Process Management

• New Business Process Engine using Activiti
  
• Alfresco Business Process definition via Activiti Process Designer (Eclipse Plugin)
  

CMIS

• AtomPub and Web Service implemention using embedded OpenCMIS server
  
• OpenCMIS Client API accessible via both repository (in-process) and Spring Surf (remote)
  
• OpenCMIS Aspect extensions
  
  • Get Applied Aspects, Add/Remove Aspects
    
• .Net OpenCMIS Client API
  
• Single Sign On support
  

Administration

• New components for managing business processes, filesystems, system properties, transformation engine, email and more via the browser based Admin Console
  

Web Content Management

• Ability to use the transfer service to push files out onto a remote file system
  
• Enhancements to allow multi-lingual websites to be created and managed using Web Quick Start