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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Sending e-mails is one of the basic features and feature you expect from a CMS system. For example, you would like to send some e-mail notification to certain users when a new document is uploaded, or when a new version of an important document is created in the system. E-mail notification is more essential when a new task is assigned to a particular user. You would for instance, also like to send e-mail alerts to users in case any of their allotted tasks become overdue.

Pulling e-mails is one unique feature of Alfresco, which can be utilized effectively under certain conditions. This feature enables Alfresco to act like a POP3 e-mail server and pull e-mails from certain e-mail accounts. For example, if you have an e-mail ID configured in Alfresco, the mails sent to this e-mail ID will be automatically pulled into the repository folders. This feature is particularly useful when you want mails, documents, and other contents to be stored automatically in the repository.

In this...