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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

Advanced workflows using Activiti


Simple workflows are good to implement content-oriented workflow processes. However, there are certain limitations of the simple workflow, which are as follows:

  • Unable to create multistate workflow definitions

  • Restricted to one or two exit transitions (approve, reject)

  • Unable to define parallel workflows

  • Reliance on folder structure for multistage workflow and action triggering

  • No notion of a task or assignment

To resolve these limitations, Alfresco has embedded two advanced workflow engines: the JBoss Business Process Management (JBPM) engine and Activiti into its core.

JBPM was the default workflow engine prior to the release of Alfresco 4.0. It is still included in the current release of Alfresco to support the older versions and upgrades.

Activiti is the default advanced workflow engine for the current version of Alfresco; Activiti is the product from Alfresco (the company).

The rest of the chapter will focus only on the Activiti workflow engine.

Activiti is an...