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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

Introduction to Alfresco Explorer


The Alfresco Enterprise Content Management product is bundled and shipped along with two web-based applications. One is called Alfresco Explorer, which was formerly known as the "Web Client". In this chapter we will go through the high-level overview of Alfresco Explorer. The other web-based application is called Alfresco Share , which enables collaboration. Chapter 10, Alfresco Administration Operations Using Alfresco Share, of this book has a detailed description of Alfresco Share.

By using any web browser you can connect to the Alfresco Explorer application. You will be able to manage users, security, content, business rules, and everything related to your enterprise content stored in Alfresco through Alfresco Explorer.

Note

In the rest of the book, wherever the web client configuration files are referred to, consider them as Alfresco Explorer related configuration files.

Logging in to Alfresco as an administrator

To begin, if Alfresco was installed by using...