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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

Getting started with content creation


The remaining chapters of the book cover the content creation, management, and delivery aspects of Alfresco in detail. In this section you will be introduced to the key terminology, and you will get a basic understanding of content creation in Alfresco.

Creating Space

Alfresco space is a folder with additional properties such as business rules and security. Similar to a folder, space can hold subspaces and any type of content. To create space within a space, click on the Create icon in the header, and then click on the Create Space link as shown in the following screenshot:

The Create Space wizard will be displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Name is a mandatory property (as you can notice a small star next to the label), whereas Title and Description are the optional properties. You can associate an icon to this space. Fill up the information and click on the Create Space button to create the space:

Each space supports various actions such as...