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Alfresco for Administrators

By : Vandana Pal
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Alfresco for Administrators

By: Vandana Pal

Overview of this book

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. The Basics of the Alfresco Content Store

Content is the heart of the ECM system. All functionalities and features of the ECM system are surrounded by content. For the architecture and maintenance of the ECM system, the understanding of the lifecycle of content in an ECM application is very important. Once content gets inside the CMS application, it passes through different phases, which is common in most standard ECM applications.

However, the storage mechanism of the content varies in different ECM applications.

In this chapter, we will understand, in detail, the lifecycle of content in Alfresco and how these different phases impact different components of Alfresco. We will also try to understand the Alfresco database schema.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about:

  • The content lifecycle

  • Content store types

  • Alfresco database schema

Before going into detail about lifecycles, let's understand the content store and database schema. We already covered indexes in Chapter...