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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

Understanding the content lifecycle in Alfresco


All content in Alfresco has a lifecycle in its system. There are mainly two stages in which content could be in any ECM system. Here are the following stages:

  • Live state : It is referred to as workSpacesStore in Alfresco

  • Archive state: It is referred to as archiveSpacesStore in Alfresco

When a user uploads content, it is in a live state. Users can do all sorts of operations like edit, update, and change permissions while content is in an active state. On deletion of content, users have the option to send the content to an archive state, and keep it there for a specific duration and then have it removed completely from the system or permanently deleted from Alfresco.

As we discussed in earlier chapters, Alfresco has three components: Database, ContentStore, and Solr Indexes, which keep reference to all of the content within the system. So, the content lifecycle mainly impacts these three components.

Let's go through, in detail, the content lifecycle...