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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

Using business rules on spaces


You can leverage Alfresco's rules engine to define and deploy business rules based on your business needs, which does not require any programming expertise. You can choose to use a business rule from built-in rules or create your custom one. Business rules can be applied to the entire content or a specific content within a space, based on the conditions used in configuration. This section explains how a real-time business requirement can be achieved with business rules and the steps for business rule configuration.

Organizing documents automatically

In the previous chapter, we have learned to upload many documents (bulk upload) from your local folder to an Alfresco repository. However, each time we end up manually moving them to specific spaces to organize them inside the repository.

Let us consider a business scenario, where your finance department receives thousands of documents every day in an electronic format from various customers, vendors, and internal...