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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

Custom aspect


Let us assume that your sales people would like to track all their proposals related to a customer. They would like to search the documents and execute business rules based on the customer details. They would like to capture the following customer details for all the documents in sales department space:

  • Customer name

  • Contact name at customer place

  • Contact person's phone number

  • Project identification number internally allocated

  • Is this a new customer?

You can extend the Alfresco content model to include the properties listed above as an aspect. Aspect definition can contain associations along with properties. Associations are covered in a later section called Custom associations. This aspect can be applied to sales department space.

When do you need a custom aspect?

The Alfresco content model is designed to be extensible. You can introduce custom properties to your objects in two different ways. One way is to create a custom aspect called Customer Details and dynamically attach it to...