Alfresco content services from installation to development: configuration, upgrades, administration and customization.
Artificial intelligence is currently at the center of every IT discussion, and enterprise content management (ECM) is no exception.Vendors frequently promote the use of “AI-powered analytics,” “intelligent automation,” and “cognitive content services.”However, if you have already implemented ECM solutions, you are aware that there is often a discrepancy between the demonstration and the actual results.Let’s address the fundamental aspects of…
For over 15 years, I have been exploring the world of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Although this sentence reminds me that I’m getting old, that’s not the point! Above all, I have accumulated a fair amount of knowledge in this field. I find it interesting to briefly compare the four ECMs with which I have worked most in recent years.…
We recently encountered an error at a customer’s site. Their Alfresco environment was behaving strangely.Sometimes the search results worked, and sometimes they did not get the expected results. The context The environment is composed of 2 Alfresco7 nodes in cluster and 2 Solr 6.6 nodes load balanced (in active-active mode). Sometimes the customer isn’t able to retrieve the document he…
A customer recently contacted us regarding an issue with an old Alfresco Enterprise 4.2.2 environment. The system had been running stably for years, with a nightly restart of the Tomcat/Alfresco service to help recycle the memory and fix long-standing issues in this version. Earlier this week, one of these nightly restarts suddenly failed and since then, Alfresco would completely refuse…
It’s a pretty common (and should be known) issue in Alfresco but even to this day, it still happens that enterprises contact us because of documents that cannot be found. The installation in question is a docker-compose for Alfresco Community 23.4, managed by the customer directly. Only some slight customizations were done but it’s a pretty out-of-the-box setup for the…
Have you ever wondered what is the impact of SSL communications or the impact of a specific Load Balancing mechanisms on the performance of your Alfresco environment? Alfresco (the Company at that time, before it became Hyland) ran some benchmark and published the results a few years ago but that might not be very relevant to you as you might…
If you are using Self-Signed SSL Certificates and recently updated your Google Chrome / Edge browser, you might have come across a new kind of error, i.e: “ERR_SSL_KEY_USAGE_INCOMPATIBLE”. In my case, it happened a few months ago on an Alfresco installation, and more specifically the Apache Solr URL. Since this URL is mostly used/accessible by Administrators, there is not much…
At a customer, I recently had a case where a mass-import job was executed on an interface that, in the background, uses Alfresco for document and metadata storage. From the point of view of the interface team, there was no problem as documents were properly being created in Alfresco (although performance wasn’t exceptional). However, after some time, our monitoring started…
Beginning of the week, as I was working for our ServiceDesk (SLA support for our customers), I saw a few dozen mails generated by our monitoring over the weekend on a Production Alfresco 7.x Cluster doing the yo-yo in terms of RAM and Disk Space. Nothing was down, just some strange behavior where 20GB of free space would be gone…
In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In this third part, I will go through what would be needed to really play the game since that was the initial goal. This time again, the first thing…
In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part, I will go through the REST-API commands that can be used to create new questions with their associated good/bad answers. First of all, I…
Have you ever wondered how you could use Alfresco to run a Trivia Game? No? Strange, I believe that should be a very important question to ask yourself when you are looking for an ECM for your company! If you have been working or following Alfresco in the past 10 years, you might have heard about the ContentCraft project, which…
