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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

RSS syndication


In order to share the information in a space with external systems as RSS feeds, you need to enable RSS Feed on that space.

Go to details page of the News space and click on the enable RSS syndication icon, as shown in the following screenshot:

A new window pops up enabling you to select the RSS template to be applied to the space as an RSS feed. RSS templates are custom scripts that determine the content to be shown as feeds. Alfresco ships with built-in standard RSS template called RSS_2.0_recent_docs.ftl, which renders a valid RSS2.0 XML document, showing the documents in the current space created or modified in the last 7 days. Choose the default RSS template from the drop-down menu and select the OK button.

In order for the anonymous users to view the news feeds, they must have read permission on news space. It means, the Guest (anonymous) user must have Consumer role (READ access) on this space for the RSS feed to be publicly viewable.

This can be achieved using the Manage...