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FlexSpaces+AIR, FlexSpaces, + Alfresco Web Scripts

I put 2 screencams of FlexSpaces+AIR (open source Flex+AIR web script based Alfresco client) on my blog:
http://integratedsemantics.org/2008/04/08/12/

1. AIR specific features (FlexSpaces+AIR)
http://integratedsemantics.org/__oneclick_uploads/2008/04/air-features2.html

2. General features screencam (FlexSpaces+AIR, FlexSpaces+browser)
http://integratedsemantics.org/__oneclick_uploads/2008/04/flex-features2.html

screenshots:
http://integratedsemantics.org/2008/04/02/hello-world/

features:
http://www.integratedsemantics.com/products.html

Some mention of features, dataformats in
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=11793&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

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Hi,
looks really usable. Do you plan to post it as a forge project or is it goingo to be a part of your consulting services?

Great job anyway,

Thanks,
FlexSpaces (and FlexSpaces+AIR) will likely be an alfresco forge project, but needs much more work before being made available.
Consulting for Flex, AIR, FlexSpaces customization, integration, new features, Flex use with Alfresco and other open source enterprise software.

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Hi
that is a good news. We are small graphics design company and we are just evaluating our budget that we can spend on alfresco project. We are thinking about hiring the consulting services company or in-hose developer. Recently we are outsourcing the IT administrator who helps us to install and customize alfresco and one "developer" who knows very little javascript.

Not yet sure which way we move (outsourcing consulting, or in-house developer). I'm missing some basic information e.g. how is whole precess handled by the consulting firm, how we are suppose to deliver the information (what we actually want) - some BPM or UML diagram? do we have to have internal person with a developer skills to be in contact with a consulting company?, what is the price ranges for consultants company could be.

I know that this is heavily depended on the use case and complexity of the project, but just in general..

Daniel,

I would suggest you contact a system integration partner listed on

http://www.alfresco.com/partners/si/

Steve

New FlexSpaces / FlexSpaces+AIR features:
Added Start Workflow dialog, task dashboard tab with task list, task attachments list (with full menu, context menu support), adhoc done, approve, reject buttons. Added web scripts to support these features.

I added a new screencam on my blog of these workflow features. This screencam also shows Flash preview of MS Office documents, and drag drop between two repository folders, which I forgot to show previously.

Blog
http://www.integratedsemantics.org

Feature list
http://www.integratedsemantics.com/products.html

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Steve,

I took a look at the screencams, it is a very nice user interface. It is also great to see what people are doing with web scripts.

thanks for the post!

Nancy

Added Advanced Search to FlexSpaces+Browser / FlexSpaces+AIR , see screenshot on blog:
http://www.integratedsemantics.org/

Steve
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Added a prototype of FlexSpaces+AIR client (air install file) along with 23 data webscripts in a new FlexSpaces forge project.
See readme.txt in zip file. Works with windows AIR client, haven't tried with AIR on Mac or Linux. (Again its in the early prototype stage!)

The data web scripts are JavaScript based, with Freemarker templates returning XML to the Flex / ActionScript / AIR client.

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

http://forge.alfresco.com/frs/?group_id=149&release_id=274

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

If anyone has tried out the flexspaces+air prototype from the flexspaces source forge project on Mac and/or Linux air clients let me know how it went (they should work). Will be setting up Mac and Linux test envs soon.

Note:
The first upload of a file (via upload files, air drag/drop, air native clipboard) might not work. From then on uploads should work.

Steve

Did some testing of FlexSpaces+AIR on non windows AIR client platforms:

Worked fine on Linux Ubuntu 8.04 including the AIR specific features (native drag/drop, native clipboard, make files offline)
1. To install adobe air alpha runtime for linux:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/06/how-to-install-adobe-air-on-ubuntu/
2. Double click on FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/ and install
3. Set host and port in /opt/FlexSpacesAir/alfresco-config.xml
(note the linux air alpha currently does not support internal viewing of pdfs)(make pdf, make flash preview, view flash preview features of FlexSpaces still work)

On Mac OSX 10.5.2 Leopard, works except for things involving upload (upload files…, native shell drag/drop, native shell clipboard), make files offline worked. On windows and linux flash players, able to authenticate and thus upload a new file, on mac flashplayer getting 401 codes back. Still working on this issue.
1. Install released AIR 1.x runtime for the Mac
http://get.adobe.com/air/
2. Double click on FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/ and install
3. Set host and port name in alfresco-config.xml
a. In finder choose "Show Package Contents" on installed FlexSpacesAir.app
b. alfresco-config.xml is in contents/resources/

Windows, basic and air specific features (native drag/drop, native clipboard, make files offline) work
1. Install air runtime http://get.adobe.com/air/
2. Double click on FlexSpacesAir.air from http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/ and install
3. Set host and port in c:\Program Files\FlexSpacesAIR\alfresco-config.xml

(Would make things easier if you could set the host and port from the UI of FlexSpaces.)

Steve
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

New FlexSpaces prototype 0.2 release

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

1. Updated FlexSpaces+AIR to have better support for mac (fixes upload files, native drag/drop, native clipboard, create content html), and fixed having some extra authentication dialogs on Windows

2. Added FlexSpaces+Browser prototype for browser based (no AIR) FlexSpaces from a web server

3. Added XML data webscripts only download for use with any ajax/html or flex or xyz custom application

Steve
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Hi Steve,
thank you for the update..

we have been trying to install new browser version of your webscripts and we have run into the following error

after installation of custom-transform-context.xml and flexspaces/ webapp
we've got these errors:

10:36:36,425  ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization
failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
bean with name 'transformer.Pdf2swf'
defined in file
[/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-transform-context.xml]:
Error setting property values; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested
PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException:
Failed to convert property value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required
type [java.util.List] for property 'explicitTransformations'; nested
exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of
type
[org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ContentTransformerRegistry$TransformationKey]
to required type [org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.E
xplictTransformationDetails] for property 'explicitTransformations[0]': no
matching editors or conversion strategy found
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested
PropertyAccessException details (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1:
org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property
value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [java.util.List] for
property 'explicitTransformations'; nested exception is java.lang.Il
legalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type
[org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ContentTransformerR
egistry$TransformationKey] to required type
[org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ExplictTransformationDetails
] for property 'explicitTransformations[0]': no matching editors or
conversion strategy found
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type
[org.alfresco.repo.content.transf
orm.ContentTransformerRegistry$TransformationKey] to required type
[org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.Expli
ctTransformationDetails] for property 'explicitTransformations[0]': no
matching editors or conversion strategy found‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

do you have any hint regarding what we are missing?

The custom-transform-context.xml is only needed for doing the "Make flash preview" and "Preview" features. It also depends on headless openoffice that is really working (the Tools / Make PDF in flexspaces works) and a new dev snapshot of pdf2swf from swftools.org installed and on your path. (Had gotten the custom-transform-context.xml from the knowledge-base /ace in alfresco svn module section. Changed it to have different parms to pdf2swf for flash9 and to not have built-in nav arrows, etc.

I think you are get these errors since it can'f find the pdf2swf program

Had been using it with alfresco 2.90C_dev and pdf2swf on a windows machine. Haven't tried with linux server or other alfresco version. (Only thing I tried on linux was as a client with AIR talking to alfresco on windows machine) What version of alfresco are you using?

Would suggest trying it first without the custom-transform-context.xml and then if you want flash previews, then work to get that it working.

Steve

Hi Steve
thank you for the reply

actually we cannot make any client to work (brower nor AIR) .. seems that we do not have a connection to the server (yes we have changed localhost according to our server path)

maybe the problem is that we are running Linux server(?)

our environment is:
java -version:
java version "1.5.0_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_09-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_09-b01, mixed mode, sharing)

alfresco:
Installed version 2.9.0 (C_dev 813) schema 124

pdf2swf:
/usr/bin/pdf2swf –version
pdf2swf - part of swftools 2008-05-05-0902

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/ant/bin

Is there anybody that have installed it on the linux server sucessfully?

What does your flexspaces/alfresco-config.xml look like for browser + webserver?
What does your alfresco-config.xml on air client (see readmeFlexSpacesForAIR.txt for platform locations look like)?
What OS / Browers clients are you running from ?

I assume your trying without the custom-transform-context.xml since if your getting those errors things probably don't work

Linux shouldn't be an issue with just the web scripts, may be some linux specific system config for pdf2swf

The alfresco-config.xml from alfresco's "flex-sdk" is only designed to set the protocol, host name (or ip address) and port
so in flexspaces webscripts are called with the configured <protocol>://<host>:<port>/alfresco/xxxx
(Maybe I need to support more configuration?)

Where did you install the webscripts from the "integratedsemantics" folder ?
Can you list webscripts with these urls ( with your particular hostname, port)
http://<host>:<port>/alfresco/service/
Does http://<host>:<port>/alfresco/service/index/package/
list /integratedsemantics/checkin /integratedsemantics/copy … /integratedsemantics/upload

Steve

I just installed Alfresco yesterday and am playing around with things. I installed FlexSpaces+AIR as well as the web version. I really like it.

Smiley Very Happy

Can't wait for more functionality such as allowing multiple file downloads etc. Couple of notes:
On the web version if I try to login I get this error:

Application Error: Security error accessing url
Stack Trace:
null

The AIR app works.

If I rename Company Home to something else then I no longer see any folders in the AIR app.
Also if I give permissions to a user to only have access to their home space and remove the everyone group from Company Home then same thing with not seeing any folders.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong.

Implemented multple select for about everything except "File / Download File…", (make available offline does work with multiple selections in air version). Will look into, not built-in to apis.

"sercurity error accessing url, stack trace null" on web version
What client OS, what browser and version? If you got the air version working did you need to change its the alfresco-config.xml hostname / port (would need to same change in webapps/fiexspaces/alfresco-config.xml). Was it from inside vmware ? what was the platform of the webserver with flexspaces and alfresco?
Sounds like what I saw with LInux Ubuntu with firefoxn 3 beta from inside vmware. (maybe vmware issue?) The air version worked from this Linux client. Tested web version with clients outside of vmware: from Windows Vista (Firefox 2, IE7) and Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Safari 3.1 and Firefox 2).

Will look at the Company Home issues.

Steve

Running latest community edition on Vista x64 with the embedded Tomcat etc. I did make the appropriate changes to point to the alfresco server and port.
Browser is Firefox 2.0.0.14
All on same machine.
I would love to have the ability to download from the alfresco documents pane on top to the local folder I have selected when I enable that window/pane in the AIR app. I mainly want to use Alfresco as a visual gui type replacement for FTP via a web interface for some users and webdav or AIR app for others where they can easily do batch uploading and downloading of files and folders.
Let me know if you need any other info.

ToxMox,
I actually have Vista x64 too (SP1) and same firefox (what are the odds!) with 2.90C_dev 04 23 08 alfresco, embedded tomcat, as my server, dev machine.
In <install dir>\tomcat\webapps\flexspaces\alfresco.config.xml have domain="ip address of this machine"

On Firefox 2.0.0.14 on the same windows vista x64 machine:
   with machine name in url, get security error accessing url, and org.alfresco.framework.server.authentication error stack when try to login
      http://vista2:8080/flexspaces/FlexSpaces.html
   This works fine:
       http://localhost:8080/flexspaces/FlexSpaces.html

From other real machines: mac osx, windows vista 32, windows xp SP2; from vmware virtual machine on xp: ubuntu 8.04 with firefox 3 beta5
    this gives the same security error:
       http://vista2:8080/flexspaces/FlexSpaces.html
    this works
       http://<ip address of vista2>:8080/flexspaces/FlexSpaces.html
(ubuntu inside vmware now works too once I switched to use the ip address!)

Steve

Perhaps it is because I moved Alfresco from 8080 to port 80 that it is causing some strange bug? I'll also double check the config file but I know I changed it.

OK I completely removed Alfresco and reinstalled this time I let it stay on port 8080. I reinstalled FlexSpaces and now both the AIR app and the web version are working.

Hi Steve,
I realized we have changed our "company home" so .. that was one of the problems.
AIR is working now, but I have to sit for a while and try to do something with our browser verision.
Will try to go through your questions and post the answers as soon as possible.

Thank you a lot for your help! Really appriciate your effort it is GREAT product and Im looking forward for its future releases. Hope we will have a developer one day that could help with projects like this.

Steve, excellent work.

What was the estimated development effort to develop this client?

Another question: if I understand properly, you decided to use WebScripts as the main interface between your custom client and the Alfresco server.

Why didn't you use the Alfresco Web Services interface? Lack of features? Performance issues? Stability? I'm curious…

Couple of months dev effort. It does use webscripts. Used webscripts since I started with the flex ACE svn code which used webscripts, was easy to develop with webscripts, and the use of webscripts was being promoted. Haven't used the webservices apis so can't compare. Note, plan to support different data access methods (webscripts, webservices, blazeDS/RemoteObject/AMF, "mock data" with local xml files) in a configurable Cairngorm Delegate layer.

P.S. In addition to the existing Doc Mgt support in FlexSpaces, some WCM support coming soon.

Steve
integratedsemantics.org
integratedsemantics.com

Hello Steve,

Are you going to release the flex part of your project as open source as well?

Regards,

Ronald Vermeire

Ronald,

I will have flex source released in the community version. Also may have an enterprise version.

(Will have first flex/actionscript source release once I finish restructuring for Cairngorm, fix some things).
(Note using cairngorm http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm http://cairngormdocs.org/ with the UM extensions http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/ )

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve Reiner

integratedsemantics.org
integratedsemantics.com

New FlexSpaces 0.3 release
1. Added some WCM/AVM support to FlexSpaces prototypes:
navigate / work with files and folders in AVM stores in new WCM tab view with tree and drag/drop/clipboard between dual folder views.
(Also native drag/drop/copy/paste of desktop files into AVM stores in FlexSpceaces+AIR).
2. Added AVM support in webscripts.
3. Bugs fixed.

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

FlexSpaces 0.4 released

Flex/ActionScript source for FlexSpaces+Browser and FlexSpaces+AIR included in this release.
No longer a prototype, significant work to make the code more well structured, commented, etc. (Added use of Cairngorm+UM, Supervising Presenter / Passive View presentation patterns.)

New features include icon/grid view and context menu in search results, dockable toolbar/menubar, menu enabling/disabling, XML configuration of context and main menus, start on advanced search (UI only).

License: GPL (commercial license version also available)

More work needed:
1. xml config for properties dialog and folder views
2. noderefs instead of ids from the delegates to the webscripts to work with 3.0 site stores
3. Edit and update existing needed to round out the doc mgt features (flexspaces+air does have make avail offline / offline update )
4. etc. etc.

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

hi steve
thanks for your release
i'am testing it now and i have some of bug
- not checkin option after checkout
- i don't think "make versionable" is work and if this option work how i can view the version please?
- i can't access to guest space and data dictionary space i have a message:

Application Error: Execution of web script failed:HTTP request error

Stack Trace:
Error: Execution of web script failed:HTTP request error
   at org.alfresco.framework.service.webscript::WebScriptService/raiseFailureEvent()
   at org.alfresco.framework.service.webscript::WebScriptService/onFaultEvent()
   at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
   at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
   at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::dispatchRpcEvent()
   at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::faultHandler()
   at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()
   at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()
   at DirectHTTPMessageResponder/errorHandler()
   at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
   at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
   at flash.net::URLLoader/redirectEvent()

and finaly i would like to ask you are tried to open document as (.doc, .xsl ans others) and edit it inline without download it(or automaticly download it in temporary file and open it ) it will be very intersting project

1. for the guest and data dictionary folder error, I need to do some work when user doesn't have permission pre screen making the web script call

2. on opening/editing doc, xls files: Note that AIR client and firefox don't support the in place edit that IE does on XP. And the inplace office apps support in XP in IE is gone in Vista anyway (can get it back with some config work).

Steve