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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

Custom configuration


The Alfresco repository enables support for the storage, management, and retrieval of content. The content may range from coarse-grained documents to fine-grained snippets of information such as XML elements. The Alfresco repository supports a rich Data Dictionary where the properties, associations, and constraints of content are present to describe the structure of such content.

The Repository Data Dictionary is by default pre-populated with definitions that describe common content constructs such as folders, files, and metadata schemes. However, the data dictionary is extensible, it allows the repository to manage new types of content since each business application will have its own content requirements. This chapter explains the main concepts behind the Data Dictionary, such as how to define new types of content and use them in an application.

The following table contains the description of some of the key terms used:

Key term

Description

Property

A metadata which...