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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 content type


Let us say your Corporate Communications group would like to create press releases and execute certain business rules if the content is of type press release. They would like to have the additional properties listed as follows:

  • PR Person's Name

  • PR Person's Email

  • PR Person's Phone

  • PR Released Date

  • Content to be automatically versioned for every update

When do you need a custom content type?

Earlier in this chapter you have understood the advantages and disadvantages of having custom aspect over a custom content type. You need a custom content type if that type of content has some significance for you such as in the case of press release. You will be able to add Press Release content in any space anywhere as you like without going through the hassle of applying all kinds of business rules on spaces. Similarly with custom content type you will be able to execute business rules based on the content type. For example, you can send notifications to certain people when a Press Release...