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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

Individual user access


Once a user account is created by the administrator, user can log in to the system. The administrator can set up an automated script to send an e-mail to the user with the user ID and password information. You will know more about such e-mail notification template scripts in later chapters.

New user login and my homepage

Log in to Alfresco, by entering the following URL in your browser: http://server_name:8080/alfresco

If you are already logged in as an administrator, log out by clicking on the Logout button, given in the top toolbar.

In the User Name text box enter your user name as mike and in the Password text box enter your password as mike.

Note

User Mike ExecEngg is created as a part of new user account in the earlier section.

Depending on your installation, you may have a choice of languages in the Language drop-down menu. This example assumes that your selected language is English. Click on the Login link and enter your credentials. Your home space appears as shown...