Create an Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM) Project

Introduction

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. This open source alternative will allow companies to take advantage of Alfresco's engineering expertise while utilizing an open source product.

At Eye Street we have been working closely with Alfresco on training, alfresco.com, and on other initiatives. Part of our work with them has let us to becoming involved in the development of a content deploy application. Part of this development has required that we move past the preview release and utilize the repository Alfresco has set up to allow us to do frequent builds.

Create Web Project
This post is based on Build 291:

1) Login to alfresco: http://servername:8080/alfresco




2) From the My Alfresco Screen click: My Home (located at the top left)



3) From My Home click: Web Projects



4) From Web Projects click: Create Web Project



5) From Step One - Web Project Details enter the following information then click next to continue:

• Name:
• DNS name:
• Default Webapp:
• Title
• Description

6) From Step Two - Configure Web Content Forms click add to list, to add existing web forms to the web project, or click create web form to create a new form. For this example I will click add to list for Body Content and Job Listing.



7) From Step Two - Configure Web Content Forms click next



8) From Step Three - Configure Workflows click add to list to add existing workflows to the project, and click next.



9) From Step Four - Add users search on the user name you wish to add, highlight that user, and their role, and click add to list.



10) From Step Four - Add Users after adding all users and setting their roles click next.



11) From Step Five - Email Users, fill in required information, change the radio button to yes (if smtp server configured) and click next, otherwise leave no selected and click next.



12) Review Summary and click finish.



13) From Web Project Page see your click on your new project's name or world icon to navigate into your project.



14) From project page notice the staging sand box, user sandboxes and all the other options available.



Conclusion

This should help you get started with Alfresco WCM. My next post will continue along this lines and demonstrate loading of content, preview of content, and basic xforms and workflows.

For further information or with questions or comments please email me: dmusser@eyestreet.com.