Alfresco provides a special type of space called Discussion forums for collaboration. You can leverage the extensive security framework to provide access to these spaces to promote collaboration. You can also set up inter-departmental collaboration using spaces, allowing multiple people to work on documents within a particular space.
Using the collaborative features, the author of a document can invite others to work on the document and participate in the general discussions about the document.
A discussion forum is a web-based facility for holding discussions, also commonly referred to as Internet forums, web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion groups, bulletin, or simply forums.
In Alfresco, a forum space is a special space that can contain other forum spaces or forums (discussion forums). A forum is essentially a space composed of a number of member-written topics, each entailing a discussion or conversation...