Monday, July 16, 2007

Using Alfresco's WCM

Alfresco is supplying a nicely looking evaluation guide for using their Web Content Management package.
After briefly giving an overview of the Web Content Management Package, a scenario can be followed along while reading.
The scenario describes using Alfresco WCM with a couple of different users, each having a different role in the system.



I followed this scenario from creating new users and assigning roles to them, creating a new web project, creating new web forms for the project, etc. until I came to the point of creating new web content. When trying expand the list of web forms next to my sandbox, I stumbled into a NullPointerException:


So a good citizen of the open source world, I immediately went to Alfresco's issue tracker and found a report about this issue (WCM-486).


Sadly this prevents me from finishing the scenario, So today I will see if the issue report can help me fix this on my system.

3 comments:

James McGovern said...

Did you notice that the evaluation guide doesn't tell you how to enable SSO, encryption or other important security considerations?

SpiderMars said...

No I didn't get that far. Although that information can be found on alfresco's wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Enterprise_Security_and_Authentication_Configuration)

Anonymous said...

hey spidermars,

you are doing a good job here. nice to read your blog entries as i am struggling with alfresco ECM, too. :-)

cheers,
michael