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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 associations


You can associate content within Alfresco repository with one or more content items. An association enables content to be related to other content.

Alfresco supports two types of associations. The first type is reference association where you refer other content items within a content item. For example you can associate a legal agreement document with master contract document. Hence you can refer to the associated master contract document, whenever you review the legal agreement. In reference association if you delete one of the documents, the other document will not be deleted.

The second type of association is child association where content (such as space) contains other content items. The child association is employed when the child of the association should not exist when the source goes away. It is a similar concept of cascaded delete in relational database or deleting a folder in Microsoft Windows Explorer. If you delete the parent then all their children that have...