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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

Dynamic models


You are able to customize Alfresco by using custom content types. These customizations are typically deployed via the alfresco/extension folder and require the Alfresco server to be restarted to take effect. Starting Version 2.9, Alfresco supports dynamic models to enable dynamic customization of models without requiring a restart of the Alfresco server.

Dynamic models are nothing but XML based model files, which are uploaded to Alfresco's repository in Company Home | Data Dictionary | Model space.

The following are the advantages of Dynamic models:

  • Model file changes will not require any Alfresco Server Restart.

  • Easy to maintain content & model files as they are stored in the repository.

  • All the model files kept in <extension> folder will be considered active and will be loaded by Alfresco. However you can activate and inactivate the dynamic models by keeping the model XML file in the repository.

  • In multi-tenant setup the models defined in <extension> folder are...