Learning Resources

Our goal with all of our training is to make it cost effective and to ensure you can make immediate use of the new knowledge you have gained. You can make more of your Alfresco training by pre-reading, watching videos and pre-recorded webinars, taking tutorials or listening to podcasts.

Some courses require you to use some of the resources here as a pre-requisite, but even when they don't you may find these training resources useful.

Interactive

Discovering Alfresco is a short self-paced eLearning course covers so of the basics about Alfresco. You will find out about the different editions of Alfresco, why organizations buy Enterprise, and use cases for the Alfresco system. You will also get an introduction to the technology and the user interfaces. Finally we round out by covering the services which we provide to Enterprise customers through Customer Services

• Discovering Alfresco
  

Videos

These videos can be used to give you a quick understanding of various aspects the Alfresco user interface and are particularly suited to end users. They user interface used for these videos is Alfresco Team, this user interface is comparable to the user interface available in Enterprise 4.0.

• Configuring your dashboard
• Joining a collaboration site
• Setting up your personal profile
• Document library basics
• Working with content
• Editing content
• Folder properties and rich media

Webcasts

• Get a review of Alfresco’s Document Management, Web Content Management, and Collaboration with Alfresco Share: Alfresco in an hour

Books

Recently there has been a spate of Alfresco books, further underlying the popularity of the Alfresco ECM as a platform for development. This list is not definitive as new books are being introduced all the time, but right now the folloiwing books are helpful if you are looking to bolster your knowledge outside of the classroom.

	Professional Alfresco: Practical Solutions for Enterprise Content Management David Caruana, John Newton, Mike Farman, Michael Uzquiano, Kevin Roast ISBN: 978-0-470-57104-0 Paperback 576 pages May 2010
	Alfresco 3 Web Services Ugo Cei, Piergiorgio Lucidi  ISBN: 978-1-849511-52-0 Paperback 436 pages August 2010
	Overview of Alfresco 3 Web Content Management Munwar Shariff, Amita Bhandari, Pallika Majmudar, Vinita Choudhary ISBN: 978-1-847198-00-6 Paperback 440 pages September 2010
	Alfresco 3 Business Solutions Martin Bergljung ISBN: 978-1-84951-334-0 Paperback 608 pages February 2011
	Alfresco Developer Guide Jeff Potts ISBN: 978-1-847193-11-7 Paperback 556 pages October 2008

Tutorials

Spring Framework

These resources are aimed at introducing you to the Spring Framework, useful if you are planning to do advanced configuration and customization with Alfresco and also helpful in understanding Surf.

• Developing a Spring Framework MVC application step-by-step
• Develop Hello World example using Spring 3.0 Framework
• Spring MVC Fast Tutorial

Deprecated Courseware