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Kofax Release Script for Alfresco, based on WebScripts?

kbonnet

Dear all,

I read about a new release script being developed by Micro Strategies: http://drquyong.com/myblog/?p=43

Does anyone have seen something of this release script? Does anyone know under what license it is or will be available?

One of our clients is currently using the .NET/WebService release script by Aarden Ringcroft, but this version has a lot of probless and limitations, not to say that is has never left the development phase. Next to this the webservice interface of Alfresco, backed by AXIS, has its limitations too. In my opinion, using the webscript framework is the way to go.

I would love to see more of this new release script and use/test it.

Kindest regards,

Koen Bonnet

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jasonjolley

Koen,

I'm a member of the team at Micro Strategies that has worked on the release script based upon the Web Script framework. There is a Tech Talk that demonstrates the release script functionality (http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p14235762/). We anticipate that the release script will be available as an Enterprise Add-on in the near future.

Regards,

Jason

kbonnet

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I did find and watched your presentation on Alf Live yesterday. I'm relieved there will be a professional solution for connecting Kofax to Alfresco. This customer will be using the enterprise edition in some time, so that's ok. Do you have anything more concrete on what is "near future"?

Thanks so far,

Koen Bonnet

jasonjolley

Koen,

Hopefully it will be within weeks, not months. Once I get something more concrete I'll post another reply with the details.

Thanks,

Jason

hvyas

Any update on this?

mahafez

Hi,

Any news on this Release Script? it look very promising :roll:

Mohammed Abdul Hafez

johan1974

Any updates would be most appreciated, the old aardenringcroft release seems to have limitiations on the number of fields it can show.

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20441&p=66590&hilit=kofax#p66590

dgenard

Hello,
as an alternative, you may consider using the connector for I.R.I.S. imaging software.
I.R.I.S. products are excellent on many imaging aspects : high volume scanning, OCR, data extraction and high PDF compression.

They are now fully integrated with Alfresco using the connector we provide.
The connector is web scripts based, thus easy to customize for automatic classification and dispatching of scanned documents.
And it is available right now.

More info on http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=20486

Denis Genard

kbonnet

as an alternative, you may consider using the connector for I.R.I.S. imaging software.

Hello Denis,

I dont think this is an option. The IRIS connector should then be installable in Kofax. Organizations in need of the Alfresco Release Script have already done a rather heavy investment in Kofax. For most of them it will not be an option to change to IRIS. Or am i mistaking and it is some kind of generic release script?

The MicroStrategies release script is handed over to Alfresco. Alfresco will distribute it as an Enterprise Addon. It is currently going through Alfrescos Q&A cycle.

Koen

dgenard

Koen,

I confirm that the IRIS connector is not designed to be used with Kofax, just with IRIS products.
So this is an option mostly for organizations who haven't choosen a scanning/indexing software yet, … or already have selected IRIS.

Regards,
Denis

ppenley

as an alternative, you may consider using the connector for I.R.I.S. imaging software.

Hello Denis,

I dont think this is an option. The IRIS connector should then be installable in Kofax. Organizations in need of the Alfresco Release Script have already done a rather heavy investment in Kofax. For most of them it will not be an option to change to IRIS. Or am i mistaking and it is some kind of generic release script?

The MicroStrategies release script is handed over to Alfresco. Alfresco will distribute it as an Enterprise Addon. It is currently going through Alfrescos Q&A cycle.

Koen

Do we have time frame to complete this Q&A process?

kbonnet

Do we have time frame to complete this Q&A process?

I'm not Alfresco partner myself, but via a partner i heard they are trying to make it available in August for some kind of beta testing by this partner.

By the way, if you're releasing to a local Alfresco server you could use the workaround to have Kofax release via the customizable text release, have it release into Alfresco via the CIFS interface and handle the XML files and PDF via via a content rule with javascript. That;s how i implemented a workaround, while we wait for the new release script.

Koen

hvyas

Do we have time frame to complete this Q&A process?

I'm not Alfresco partner myself, but via a partner i heard they are trying to make it available in August for some kind of beta testing by this partner.

By the way, if you're releasing to a local Alfresco server you could use the workaround to have Kofax release via the customizable text release, have it release into Alfresco via the CIFS interface and handle the XML files and PDF via via a content rule with javascript. That;s how i implemented a workaround, while we wait for the new release script.

Koen

Are you talking about default kofax-text release or kofax-xml release ? Also can you be able to provide javascript that you use with content rule?

kbonnet

We did it with text release to generate an XML file. But use XML release if you can, i would say.

This was the basis for my content rule. Later i added some more for moving the files, et cetera.

var importFolder = document.parent;
var logFile = importFolder.childByNamePath("log.txt");
var oXML = new XML(document.content);

var importDocument = importFolder.childByNamePath(oXML.@filename);

for each (a in oXML.attr)
{
   importDocument.properties[a.@name] = a.toString();
}

importDocument.save();
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johan1974

Finally i can install the new Kofax release script from micro strategies using web script. Only to find out that after installing this script in kofax the actual configuration does not work. I login to the repository and after that i have to login a again to the alfresco server. All i see is the company home folder. And when i press ok after this i get a script error.

Anybody else allready having experience with this new release script?

Greetings,

Johan

pedrog

Hello, Johan.
Can you let me know where you located the Kofax-Alfresco release script you mention? I received from Kofax a script back in Dec 2008 that we have not tested, but I would like to know if we have the "correct" or "best" one. Ours comes with a PDF indicating it is version 1 from Aarden Ringcroft and an alfresco.dll from 2006. There seems to be quite a lot of interest in this script and it is high time it was fully functional. We will help out as much as we can. Thanks.

estebanzec

It's really interesting how you used to do the release.

Could be completed with the way they used to move the files, and more.

thanks!

kbonnet

Can you let me know where you located the Kofax-Alfresco release script you mention?

Hi Pedro,

It has become an Enterprise Add-on of Alfresco. Alfresco is currently giving it out for beta testing to their Enterprise Partners.

Koen

kbonnet

It's really interesting how you used to do the release.

Could be completed with the way they used to move the files, and more.

thanks!

My pleasure. But keep in mind that this only works over CIFS. CIFS has not always been stable for large amounts of documents, although in this situation all is going well. For the long term, the MicroStrategies script is the way to go.

Koen

kbonnet

Hey Johan,

Only to find out that after installing this script in kofax the actual configuration does not work

Do you still have this problem? I was able to get it working at a client. It had some problems in the ReleaseSetup part, but i could work around that.

Whats the problem at your client?

Koen

johan1974

Hi Koen,

I got the error "You may need to reinstal your releasescript -1" but this says nothing.

I will be at this customer's site on December 9 so then i will be able to tell you more details.

Thanks!

Johan

kbonnet

Hi Johan,

Fortunately, this script does keep some logging via log4net. There is a log file somewhere in the installation folder. And because it's talking to alfresco via webscripts you can raise the log4j logging on the Alfresco side for webscript and jscript. This will tell you what's going wrong.

Koen

johan1974

Thanks for the tip

kbonnet

Hi Johan,

Looks like the problem i had, but cant be sure.

Check this out; the bug i reported and workaround. Hope it helps.

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3625

Koen