Getting started with alfresco
Remarks#
Available Editions
| Edition | Commercial Support | Production Ready | Vendor | Last Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfresco One | Yes | Yes | Alfresco Software Inc. | |
| Alfresco Community Edition | No | No | Alfresco Software Inc. | |
| LXCommunity ECM | Yes | Yes | Loftux AB | |
| ## Versions# |
Installation or Setup
Development and Evaluation Installations
Alfresco provides a number of different installers for different operating systems and platforms. However, these installers are not recommended for production environments.
https://www.alfresco.com/alfresco-community-download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco - more Alfresco instalation files, and separate modules a avaiable also there
Production Installations
You can install Alfresco on Ubuntu distributions for by using Alfresco Ubuntu Install script from Loftux AB.
While you are installing using the script, you can select between Alfresco Community Edition (No commercial support) and LXCommunity ECM (With commercial support).
https://loftux.com/en/products-and-add-ons/alfresco-utilities
Addons
Additionally you can extend you Alfresco with community created addons- they are avaiable on https://addons.alfresco.com
About Alfresco
Alfresco is ECM (enterprise content management) system, based on java frameworks and javascript. Alfresco (as a “repository” is the base core of the Alfresco as a product).
It provides eg. encrypted content store, specific permissions settings, content types with specific properties (like name, date of creation, also custom properties can be included).
Alfresco also provides Workflow processes- separately or with documents, workflows are specified by diagram flow (Activiti and jbpm engine is supported; jbpm deprecated).
Product also partly supports Sharepoint (via Alfresco office services- “aos”, CIFS, and other features. Key features are:
- Content storage
- Content retrieval
- Content modeling
- Query interface
- Access control
- Audit
- Versioning
User content is wrapped with the security layer- binary content is saved on the disk, but the structure and metadata are saved in the database.
This part- “repository” of the Alfresco as product provides REST API for the extensions like Alfresco Share.
Alfresco Installation Link For Windows
https://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/simpleinstall-community-win.html
For Linux
https://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/simpleinstall-community-lin.html
Brief Description about Installation
https://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/install-community-intro.html