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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

Migrate existing users to Alfresco


If you are planning to migrate an existing application to Alfresco, then you might want to migrate its existing users to Alfresco as well. If you use LDAP or NTLM-based security model, then you don't have to migrate the existing users to Alfresco. Instead, you can directly connect to those user sources from Alfresco. This model is always preferred as you can manage users and groups at one centralized location and access the user information in many applications.

This is applicable if you are using Alfresco out-of-the-box security model.

Understanding of user and group structure in Alfresco

Any user/group is stored as a node in Alfresco. Below actions are taken when we create a user in Alfresco.

  • Person Node: A node of type person would be created, which would store all the details of the user like first name, last name, company ID, and so on.

  • User Node: This node stores the user ID and password related information. This node would be created only when we use...