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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
We will have our bi-weekly Alfresco Tech Talk Live @ 12pm EST, Friday August 21th, 2009.
Our guest speaker will be Rich McKnight, Alfresco Senior Consultant. Rich is a Senior Technologist with over 25 years of technology experience in a number of different disciplines including enterprise content management, web site development, telecommunications, equity trading systems and computer aided engineering.
His demo will show how it is possible to take content managed in Alfresco as web forms and deploy it to a web site running as a Drupal instance. In this demo all web form content being deployed to the Drupal web site will be stored in Drupal as native Drupal nodes.
This combination of managing content in Alfresco and deploying them to Drupal as Nodes, allows us to leverage the strengths of both systems. By managing the content in Alfresco, we leverage the power of Alfresco as a “Content Production System”. By storing the content as Drupal nodes, we are able to leverage Drupal’s “Presentation Management” strengths.
The proof of concept achieves these results by using a callback in Alfresco’s deployment system to post the content to Drupal using XMLRPC. The Drupal module that receives this content, strips out the content and metadata from the xml and creates or updates nodes. By associating the unique identifiers on the Drupal and Alfresco systems, Drupal is able to keep track of the version history when content is updated.
All of the content in the Drupal target does not need to be managed in Alfresco. This would allow organizations with large constituencies (e.g. Universities and Professional Associations) to have “Institutional” content (e.g. press releases and organizational news and announcements) managed from within Alfresco while allowing “User Generated” content (e.g. user blogs and forum discussions) to be managed in Drupal.
As part of this tech talk, he will compare and contrast the functionality of Drupal and Alfresco to help the members of both communities gain some insights into the system (Drupal or Alfresco) which is new to them.
To attend, please visit http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live and enter the meeting room as a Guest.
You can find more information about TTL here.
