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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

Applying actions to individual content


In any business, there will always be exceptions and there will be situations where you need to apply certain business rules to a specific document only. You can execute an action on a specific document directly without defining business rules on the space. This helps if you want to execute certain actions on an ad-hoc basis to specific documents.

The actions for content are invoked from the View Details page of a content item by clicking on the Run Action link in the Actions box. You are allowed to choose from the range of actions. You can also aggregate actions into a sequence that is applied in one go.

Removing an aspect from a content

You have applied the Versionable aspect to all the incoming documents in the Finance Department | Contracts and Other Documents space. Consider a scenario where you would not want a specific document to be versioned but all other documents to be versioned. The following are the steps for you to remove the Versionable...