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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.

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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Alfresco
Introduction to Alfresco
Overview of Alfresco
Alfresco Enterprise 4 – an overview
Alfresco products
How you can benefit from Alfresco
How does the future look with Alfresco?
Implementing the example solution using Alfresco
Where do you get more information?
Summary
2
Installing Alfresco
Installing Alfresco
Installing Alfresco
Summary
3
Getting Started with Alfresco
Getting Started with Alfresco
Introduction to Alfresco Explorer
Getting started with content creation
My Alfresco dashboards
Starting with basic configuration
Creating a blueprint for your application
Summary
4
Implementing Membership and Security
Implementing Membership and Security
Alfresco membership and security model
Managing system users
Individual user access
Managing user groups
Extending security permissions and roles
Securing your spaces
Securing your content
Choosing a right security model for you
Migrate existing users to Alfresco
Summary
5
Implementing Document Management
Implementing Document Management
Managing spaces
Managing content
Library services
Categorizing content
Managing multilingual content
Using network drives to manage content
Recovering deleted content
Data Dictionary and space templates
Discussions on spaces and documents
RSS syndication
Migrating existing content into Alfresco
Summary
6
Implementing Business Rules
Implementing Business Rules
Using business rules on spaces
Built-in business rules
Applying actions to individual content
Handling content transformations
Executing JavaScript as business rules
Scheduled actions
Summary
7
Extending Alfresco Content Model
Extending Alfresco Content Model
Custom configuration
Custom aspect
Constraints
Advanced property sheet configuration
Custom content type
Custom associations
Dynamic models
Summary
8
Implementing Workflow
Implementing Workflow
Introduction to the Alfresco workflow process
Simple Workflow
Advanced workflows using Activiti
Summary
9
Integrating External Applications with Alfresco
Integrating External Applications with Alfresco
Alfresco content platform
Web Scripts
Various application integration examples
CMIS
Summary
10
Alfresco Administration Operations Using Alfresco Share
Alfresco Administration Operations Using Alfresco Share
Alfresco Share
Managing Alfresco using the Admin Console in Alfresco Share
Summary
11
Customizing the User Interface
Customizing the User Interface
Configuring Alfresco Explorer
Customizing JSP Client
Various user interface options
Summary
12
Search in Alfresco
Search in Alfresco
Overview
Search using Alfresco Explorer
OpenSearch
Configuring the Alfresco search engine
Using the Solr search engine with Alfresco
Summary
13
Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing
Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing
Introduction
Example of an imaging solution with workflow
Scanning solutions with Alfresco
Integrating with Ephesoft
Summary
14
Administering and Maintaining the System
Administering and Maintaining the System
Exporting and importing content
Data backup
Upgrading to newer versions of Alfresco
General maintenance tips
The Java Management Extension (JMX) interface
Summary
Index
Index

Constraints

A Constraint controls the input value of a property. Constraints can be used to validate the input values and to ensure certain predefined values for the properties. Constraints are defined separately from content types and aspects and referenced within a property type definition.

Constraint types

Alfresco provides four types of constraints out-of-the-box as follows. Apart from these, the custom constraints can be defined using Java Programming language.

  • REGEX: ensures that a property value matches a regular expression pattern

  • LIST: ensures that a property value is picked up from the list of predefined values

  • MINMAX: ensures that the given property value falls within a defined numeric range

  • LENGTH: ensures that the given property value falls within a defined character length range

REGEX

The following REGEX expression ensures that the property filename does not match the defined regular expression pattern. This constraint thus ensures that the file name value entered does not contain...

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