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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

OpenSearch


OpenSearch is a standard format of sharing search results across many systems. It helps various search engines and search clients communicate, by introducing a common set of formats to perform search requests and syndicate search results.

Note

Refer to the OpenSearch website at http://www.opensearch.org for specifications and documentation.

Alfresco has adopted open standards throughout the framework, and OpenSearch is one such standard. This enables a standards-based interface to search the content in repository. For example, you can search the content in Alfresco from any application written in any other programming language running on any platform.

Alfresco exposes its search engines via OpenSearch and also provides a new aggregate open search feature in the Alfresco Explorer.

Alfresco's open search engines

You can discover the available open search engines using the following URL: http://<servername>:<port>/alfresco/service/api/search/engines.

There are two open search...