Recently TSG has assisted multiple clients with unique scenarios to make Alfresco queries more efficient. Like a good auto mechanic that has learned tips and tricks for getting better performance from a car without sacrificing quality, TSG has recently developed performance improvements for Alfresco in OpenContent to address clients’ needs. This post will summarize the […]
Debugging Documentum ADTS Transformation Failures
A client recently encountered an issue with their Documentum 6.7 environment where PDF renditions for certain document types were not being created. The client’s environment was leveraging Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS) 6.7, which utilizes Adlib as its underlying renditioning engine for rendering PDFs. As we discussed in a previous blog post, Documentum had announced […]
Alfresco and Angular 2.0: Technical First Look
In July, Alfresco released a new Angular 2 framework which promises to deliver developers a new modern way to develop custom Alfresco applications. This post will cover what we’ve learned about this new framework. Watch a quick demo of the new Angular Interface. When releasing this framework, Alfresco is actually releasing three different independent pieces. […]
Avoiding Alfresco Performance Problems from Day 1 – Keeping My ECM Healthy
One of the great things about Alfresco is that it offers all-in-one installation packages to make installation simple on both Windows and Linux servers. With a few clicks, you can have an Alfresco repository deployed and running in a matter of a few minutes. This is especially useful when setting up development environments. When using […]
Alfresco’s Transactional Metadata Query System – Mystery Results
With the release of version 5.0, Alfresco officially stopped supporting the Lucene indexing subsystem, leaving Solr as Alfresco’s lone indexing solution. A major benefit of leveraging Lucene was its in-transaction indexing, making content searchable as soon as it was created. Solr, however, utilizes asynchronous indexing which leads to “eventual consistency”, meaning newly created content is not searchable right away. This […]
FileNet Migration Findings
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted in August of 2010. We’ve been answering quite a few questions lately from businesses looking to migrate off of their older FileNet systems. Having been away from this area for a bit, I was looking back over some older blog entries I had written. I came across this write-up, […]
Upgrading to Alfresco 5 – Keys to Success
With the recent release of Alfresco 5 Enterprise, many clients are beginning to plan to upgrade to the latest version of Alfresco in the coming months. On January 8th, TSG participated in an Alfresco Tech Talk Live Session that focused on upgrading to Alfresco 5. Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a regularly scheduled webcast where […]
Harnessing the Power of Alfresco Data Lists for Cascading Value Assistance
One of the most common Alfresco customization requests that we receive from our clients is for a way to allow metadata constraint lists to be managed by business users, rather than by IT. TSG has developed an Alfresco Module Package (AMP) that allows picklist values to be managed using the data list functionality in Alfresco […]
Auto-Numbering Content in Alfresco
To continue our series of posts highlighting common design patterns that we see in many Alfresco implementations (see previous posts on Auto-Filing and Data List-Drive Value Assistance, this post will focus on another Alfresco module package (AMP) that TSG has developed that provides a configurable way to automatically number content with a unique numbering sequence upon creation.