Fred - a new desktop window boosting Alfresco

Introducing Fred

Welcome to XeniT – Alfresco Webinar

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April 1, 2010

Peter Morel, Business Development

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Overview Fred Webinar

• Introduction of XeniT

• What is Fred?

• Demo of Fred 1.0

• What is coming up in Fred 1.1 - demo


• What is coming up in Fred 1.1 - demo

• What can we expect for the future

• The Fred model

• Contact

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Introducing XeniT

• Alfresco System integrator and Technology vendor

• A competent team with practical experience

• Service: consultancy, implementation, continued support, training

• Main activities in Benelux


• Main activities in Benelux

• Product development activities

� IWT project: “smart documents”

� Digital archiving: importing and management of large (X millions) document repositories

� E-Mail management solution

� Smart Front Ends

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Who’s Fred?

Or rather what is Fred?

� A desktop application

� A window to Alfresco

� An assistant making ECM easy for the users


� Fun to work with

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Why Fred?

Rich functionality of AlfrescoAvailable in a Explorer

like environment

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Usable everywhere

in the world

Solution for

these combined

requirements?

Fred base technology

• Fred Front End and Back End– Http protocol

– Web scripts

– SSO NTLM

– Proxy

• Fred FE min requirements


• Fred FE min requirements– Desktop

• OS: Windows XP SP2 or Vista SP1

• .Net framework 3.5

• 10 Mb of available disk space

– Outlook 2003• PIA 2003 - Primary Interop Assemblies

– Outlook 2007

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Demo scenario

• Browsing Alfresco

• Managing folders

• Managing files

• Managing views


• Managing views

• Search Alfresco

• New features coming up

• Q&A

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Managing Folders

• Refresh

• Rename

• New folder

• Delete folder


• Delete folder

• Set as root folder

• Show folder in browser

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Managing Files

• Open file

• Rename file

• Move file

• Delete file

• Add a document/mail

• Add multiple files

• Outlook:

– Respond to archived mail


• Delete file

• View metadata

• Edit metadata

• Refresh metadata

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– Respond to archived mail

– Mail attachment handling

• Show file in browser

Managing Views

• Add columns

• Removing columns

• Resizing columns

• Moving columns


• Moving columns

• Sorting by columns

• Save view

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Search

• Text search

• Search in part of the repository

• Sorting on metadata

• Filter on metadata


• Filter on metadata

• Grouping on metadata field

• Show file in tree folder

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New features in 1.1

• Versioning

• Lock document

• Create document from template and open in C:\Fred folder

• Multiple views


• Multiple views

• Admin to see user rights

– View folder rights

– View user rights

• Lab demo

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Further down the road

• Fred loading your local documents to Alfresco

• Show my Tasks, my Activities, ...

• Enhanced use of document templates

• Enhanced features on document model, aspects and metadata

• Continued enhancements in personalised experience


• Continued enhancements in personalised experience and usability

• Technology choices:– Fred Mono compliant

– Fred CMIS complaint

• And many more practical features

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Benefits of Fred

• Tight integration into the working environment of the user

• Uniform and simplified handling of documents in multiple application

• Very few clicks for most common actions

• Simple but very powerful search


• Simple but very powerful search

• Supports document quality enhancements

• Gradual focus shift from C:/ to Fred/Alfresco

• Easy jump to the Alfresco interface

• Available everywhere

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The Fred model

• Trial on the XeniT demo environment

– Register on www.xenit.eu

– 30 days functional experience

• Pilot on your Alfresco test environment


• CPU based subscription

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Contact

Mr Fred

[email protected]

XeniT Solutions

Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 11

B-3000 Leuven

Belgium

+32 16 891800

[email protected]

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[email protected]@xenit.eu

… making document management easier… making document management easier

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