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Alfresco Web Studio

uzi

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know the latest news on Alfresco Web Studio.
I've recently added a Wiki page on it here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Studio

Alfresco Web Studio is the visual design piece of what was formerly known as ADW (Dynamic Website). It's the graphical front-end with all of the drag-and-drop page assembly things in it. It now runs entirely on the Surf platform. In fact, most of Surf was derived from ADW and then fortified by Alfresco engineering so that it nicely incorporates the Alfresco Web Script runtimes and Freemarker tranformation engines.

The good news is that we're hard at work on the UI now and will have it available to the community as quickly as we can. However, the visual UI will not be part of 3.0. We do, however, expect that it will follow on soon after that.

I think we'll be able to show it off a bit at the upcoming community conferences as well. Lots of good stuff in the works!

Michael

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stevereiner

Michael,

On this wiki page, what does "In-Context Editing through JSF Client" mean ?

Steve

uzi

Hi Steve,

There are going to be two passes at in-context editing.

In the first pass, for October, we'll provide in-context editing by essentially linking out to the JSF client for forms entry. This means that users will jump back and forth between Web Studio and Web Forms via the JSF client. It should be seamless for folks but there will be a transition between the two clients.

In the second pass, we'll provide all forms-based entry directly within the same client application. This is because we'll be completing our work on the Alfresco Forms Service by that time. The goal is to synthesize form-based content entry for a diversity of Alfresco data types. If we do things right, then content contributors and editors will be able to work on articles right within the context of the web site. No jumping back and forth.

We have big plans for the Forms Service piece but it will not be completed by October. Some of the ideas include the automatic management of data bindings between form elements and XSD defined XML flat files and/or CM content models. We would like to provide folks with the ability to configure multiple kinds of editors which are switched based on role. Things like that - most likely by the end of the year in community and start of next year in Enterprise.

Does that help to answer your question? Let me know if I can provide any further insight.

Michael

benswitzer

Hi Michael,

I've just checked out your code for Alfresco Studio and I'd like to check it out. I've built it successfully, but can't seem to access. Just get the default /page url. What's the URL to kick the tires on this project? Very interested in checking this out.

Thanks,
Ben

marcus

I think there's a couple of JS files not added/complete yet, I'm getting a js error about missing objects which seems to be where the action starts.

zaizi

You'll need to update the following configuration file.

tomcat/webapps/studio/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-framework-config-application.xml‍

Update the end-point URLs for studio and alfresco. This will load the java script files correctly.

uzi

Hey guys,

Thanks for hanging in there. There was a promotion today to HEAD which will have a few more features and should leave people in a state where they can install the Green Energy sample site. Look for more updates over the coming two weeks.

We're not quite there yet with the packaging so there may still be some fiddling or tweaks to do after setting up. But basically, Web Studio is a WAR file that you can drop into any Tomcat instance. And then, as mentioned by the good people at Zaizi, you may have to weak an XML file or two to get things talking correctly.

With the Labs 3C drop, the WAR file will bundle along with alfresco.war and share.war so things will work straight away. We should be ready for distribution of Labs 3C after the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. A short pitstop for turkey and time with relatives.

And then, it's full on as we press ahead to the future with Labs 3D. Internally, we're calling it "Jaws" (i.e. Jaws 3D). Definitely a fun name. Labs 3D will be more functionally rich and I expect we'll be able to expose more of the WCM Services UI (modified items, sandbox management) as well as some more in-context editing behaviours.

Stay tuned!

Michael

nimbus58

Now what?

I got the studio.war
Restarted Alfresco (3c)
Went to myserver:8080/studio
Have a superb "Welcome to Alfresco Web Studio"

And …???

What do I do next?

roy_thompson

You need to correct the endpoint-url in the alfresco-web-studio remote endpoint section of
WEBINF/classes/alfresco/web-framework-config-application.xml.

The default url has a port of 8280 and you probably want 8080.

After I do this I get a login page and can create sites.

Roy

nimbus58

Jackpot!

Thanks Roy, just what I needed.
This looks good.

janvg

Where can you find this studio war file ?

nimbus58

Latest nightly build

http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/

ivanmiha

Hi,

web-framework-config-application.xml - corrected!

When I go to http://localhost:8080/studio it works but when I try to create site, I get this:

16:01:56,515 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeJSONWebScript] Caught exception & redirecting to status template: Failed to load script '/web-studio/api/site/create.get.js (in classpath store file:c:/alfresco30/tomcat/webapps/studio/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscripts)': TypeError: Cannot parse XML: Scanner State 24 not Recognized  (AlfrescoScript#933(eval)#1)‍

Any ideas?

uzi

Hey guys,

The nightly builds don't appear to reflect the most recent changes yet.

If you're building from HEAD, things should be in good shape.
The nightly builds may take another 24 hours to catch up.

Michael

mikeh

This is an example of the nightly builds not being deployed if there's any kind of error during the build process. I can see a new build going through now - hopefully it'll complete ok and make it to the dist server.

As Uzi says, you can try grabbing HEAD, but be warned this isn't guaranteed to pass all unit tests (and even compile in some rare cases).

Edit: One of the unit tests failed, so it won't get updated tonight. Doesn't affect Studio though, so you can safely grab that from HEAD and build yourself.

Mike

marcus

Latest from enterprise svn head, I'm getting exceptions whenever trying to add/edit pages and other items

{

    "status" : 

  {

    "code" : 500,

    "name" : "Internal Error",

    "description" : "An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

"

  },  

  

  "message" : "Error during wizard initialisation: null",  

  "exception" : "org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException - Error during wizard initialisation: null"

,

  

  "callstack" : 

  [ 

       ""      ,"java.lang.NullPointerException"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.ScriptWizard.sessionGet(ScriptWizard.java:844)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.ScriptWizard.processRequest(ScriptWizard.java:352)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.ScriptWizard.init(ScriptWizard.java:179)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.ScriptWizard.init(ScriptWizard.java:138)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebStudioWizardWebScript.executeScript(DeclarativeWebStudioWizardWebScript

.java:85)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeJSONWebScript.execute(DeclarativeJSONWebScript.java:103)

"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.PresentationContainer.executeScript(PresentationContainer.java:53)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.LocalWebScriptRuntimeContainer.executeScript(LocalWebScriptRuntimeContainer

.java:188)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:240)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:139)"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:116)"

      ,"javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java

:290)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)"

      ,"org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)"

      ,"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)"

      ,"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583

)"

      ,"org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)"

      ,"java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)"

      ,"org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Error during wizard initialisation: null"

      ,"org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebStudioWizardWebScript.executeScript(DeclarativeWebStudioWizardWebScript

.java:90)"

 

  ],

  

  "server" : "Alfresco &lt;unknown&gt; v&lt;unknown&gt; schema -1",

  "time" : "2/12/2008 12:18:14"

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mrogers

Web Studio is not in an enterprise release ! Do you mean the nightly build?

Could you clarify what you are trying to do?

marcus

No, I mean the enterprise SVN mirror (is this actually different from the public SVN mirror?).

I'm just clicking the "Edit" button after selecting a page in the example site; it also happens on just about all other actions as well. I'll download a nightly and give that a try.

uzi

Hi Marcus,

I think a few people had some issues over the past few days. Most of it, I think, was due to the sample sites not quite being complete. Our goal is to provide a few sample sites to people… Green Energy being one of them.

There was a site, for example, that I had loaded into our asset library on Network called "Media Test" that just didn't work.

Those are now gone and replaced with three valid sites which we'll go with once Web Studio rolls out with 3C (which should be this weekend).

If you've built from HEAD or grabbed a recent nightly, you should be able to try it out now.

Also - Web Studio features an importer for streaming bundles from servers into an AVM web project, refreshing Surf and all that kind of magic. Thus, if other people wanted to build new sample sites, we're now in the position to do so and make them available to each other.

As you might guess, this capability comprises the backbone mechanics for a community "add-on" library for Surf components - things that are coming down the road in 3.1 but which we could begin to tinker with now once 3C hits.

Michael

marcus

Cool, thanks for that Michael. I'll build from HEAD again and see what goes.

btw, is the webinar for Web Studio still going ahead on the 20th?

alexr

Hi Michael,

Labs 3c/Webstudio works fine and looks very good. Good job!
With the Display Items Components however I have encountered a problem. When I follow the Custom Site tutorial
and save the changed display item settings of "96 pixels" and "Four by four view", the save doesn't seem to work.
After a refresh the original "16 pixels" and "List View" remain.
I dragged the "Data dictionary" to the "body" region instead of the "nav" region, but that should probably not matter.

Regards,

Alex

cedced

Hi,

I manage to go to the website create wizard, but when I click "create" after choosing the web site template, nothing happens, and I get this log in Tomcat console :
[Fatal Error] :1:58: A DOCTYPE is not allowed in content.

Any idea ?

derbex

I'm in a similar position, 3c downloaded, installed, I can login but whenever I try to create a website I get a Javascript alert box saying 'create failed'.

It's a CentOS (Red Hat) machine running Tomcat 5.5 and jdk 1.6.

uzi

Hello,

Which platform are you installing on? If you're installing on a Linux platform, remember to add in the WCM pack since it contains studio.war.

That said, I would speculate that these are due to an inability of the server to contact http://network.alfresco.com. The Site Creation wizard actually calls over to fetch some JSON about sample sites that it can auto-install. The DOCTYPE issue is particularly indicative since it likely means that HTML came back over the wire when it expected JSON. This may be due to a proxy server not permitting throughput.

Is there any more information you could provide around validation of the network environment?

Otherwise, you may still be able to create a blank site and work up from there. It would be more interesting if the Site Creation Wizard could stream back one of the sites though.

Let me know if the network issue is there or if it persists. Would could look at options to bundle sample sites with Web Studio as well so as to avoid the network call. The nice thing about the network call is that opens up the door for us to have a library of components, sites and all kinds of things for sharing in the near future.

Michael

luxoliver

Hi,

I try to configure the component : Display Items Component.
I have drag and drog on it the folder "Data Dictionary".
My problem is that i can't open a folder who is on "Data Dictionary" by a click, a new page is appearing and ask me to define a new Template. That's what i do but nothing changed, the same page appear.
What can I do ?

sai_veladandi

hi
am new to alfresco.
am installed alfresco 3.2 on my windows xp.
when i start my web studio and in website wizard when i click on create a new web site then it is not loading any thing.
i have internet connection to my system .is any configuration is needed?

how to carry the developed to website from my system to another system…and with out login how the end user can see our website?

please help me thank in advance..

ramanfu1

Michael,

On this wiki page, what does "In-Context Editing through JSF Client" mean ?

Steve