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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

Chapter 6. Implementing Business Rules

So far, we have learned how to manage system users, user groups, space management, content management, check in and check out of documents, versioning of documents, and bulk upload using network uploads. In this chapter, we will learn about defining and using business rules as per custom business requirements.

By the end of this chapter, we will cover following areas:

  • Automatically organize documents into specific spaces for bulk uploads

  • Sequencing of business rules

  • Run time-consuming business rules in the background

  • Control document versions on specific documents in specific spaces

  • Categorization of documents based on names

  • Document event-driven e-mail notifications

  • Document Transformation in various formats

  • Dynamically add custom properties to documents based on the location

  • Configure business rules as scheduled actions to run periodically

  • Extend business rules using customized JavaScript files