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Alfresco for Administrators

By : Vandana Pal
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Alfresco for Administrators

By: Vandana Pal

Overview of this book

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Authorizing users the use of content or space


By now, you should know about the permissions and roles in Alfresco. In Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco, we already learned about how users and groups are created. Once these users and groups are created in the repository, they need to be granted with specific access rights to spaces and content.

In most organizations, you have various departments and subsections within each department, as well as some people who belong to multiple departments.

For example, there are various teams like the HR team, recruitment team, management team, and administration team. Now, some people in the HR team would also be a part of the management team, and the recruitment team is a sub-set of the HR team. So, to organize such a hierarchy, you create various groups and subgroups.

Create a group in Alfresco named HR_Team, Management_Team, Administration_Team, as shown in Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco. Now create a subgroup named Recruitment_Team under...