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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding possible actions of a rule


So now you have seen that Alfresco has provided a wide variety of options you can utilize as conditions of your rule. Similarly, many action options have also been offered—using these, you can implement most of your content management business scenarios and requirements.

In this recipe, we will understand some of the important actions offered by Alfresco Explorer.

How it works...

The following are the list of possible actions that can be performed while the rule execution. You can perform one or more of these actions in a rule.

  • Add an aspect: Use this action to add an existing aspect to the selected content items.

  • Add simple workflow: You can initiate a simple Approval/Rejection workflow on your content items using this. We will learn more about workflows in Chapter 11 in the recipe Invoking and using a Workflow.

  • Check in: This action checks in the corresponding document.

  • Check out: Used to automatically check out the document.

  • Copy: Copies a document to...