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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring Alfresco Explorer


You can configure the look and feel of the Alfresco Explorer by simply editing the XML configuration file. You can change the look and feel of the Alfresco Explorer, change navigation elements, and modify the space views as per your organizational or departmental requirements.

Configuring views

This section gives you insight into the process of configuring various views in Alfresco.

Configuring space views

Every space can be viewed in the following four different ways:

  • Details View: This provides detailed information about documents, as rows.

  • Icon View: This provides icon, description, and modification time properties of the documents.

  • Browse View: This provides information about sub-spaces.

  • Custom View: This provides the custom view selected by the user for that space.

For Windows users, this is similar to having various view options for folders in the Windows Explorer. The Details View, Icon View, and Browse View are provided out of the box. Custom View is the...