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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

My Alfresco dashboards


In the Alfresco Explorer user interface, the My Alfresco area is known as the dashboard. You can construct your own dashboard page from a list of preconfigured components available out of the box.

Choosing My Alfresco Dashboard as start location

The start location is the first page that will be displayed immediately after you log in to the Alfresco Explorer. You can choose your start location using the user profile icon () as shown in the following screenshot. Once you log in to the Alfresco Explorer, the first page you will see is the page that you have chosen as start location.

To select the My Alfresco dashboard as your starting page, click on user options icon in the top menu and select My Alfresco as your start location. Next time when you log in, My Alfresco Dashboard will be displayed as your personal home page. You can also view this dashboard page by clicking on the My Alfresco menu item at the top.

Configuring a personal dashboard using wizard

If you click on...