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Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation

By : Munwar Shariff
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Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation

By: Munwar Shariff

Overview of this book

<p>Alfresco offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and aspires to be "Documentum fast and free", and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart "spaces". Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods.<br /><br />Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents.<br /><br />Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Alfresco
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Editor
Preface

Library Services


The library services are the common document management functions for controlling users with permissions to create multiple instances of a document (versioning) and users with access a document to make changes (checking in/out).

Versioning

So far you have learned about creating spaces, adding files, and editing them. You might have more than one person who can edit a document. What if somebody edits a document, and removes a useful piece of information? Well, you can use versioning features to avoid such issues.

Versioning allows the history of previous versions of a content item to be kept. A content item needs to be versionable for versions to be kept. You can enable versioning in four different ways.

  • Individually: To enable versioning for an individual content item, go to the View Details page and click on the Allow Versioning link. The screenshot on the next page illustrates the way to enable versioning on an individual content item.

  • Using Smart Spaces: A business rule can...