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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

Understanding the components of a rule


In today’s business, a content management system is not only supposed to manage files, provide document management capabilities, and so on. An enterprise content management system should also manage all the business processes around the enterprise’s content.

Rules can be used to implement such Business Requirements, Business Rules, and Scenarios in the whole content management endeavor of your enterprise.

You can leverage Alfresco’s powerful and flexible rules engine for performing several business operations automatically every time an event transpires.

How to do it...

For example, your organization may want to send notification mails to a group of people whenever somebody uploads a new document or somebody updates an existing document on a particular space; or you may want to assign a review and approve task someone when a document is uploaded in a space. You may also want to send the notification mail only for PDF documents, but not for MS Word documents...