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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching in Alfresco


Once you have uploaded your content and documents in the repository and your team is also continuously uploading documents, it is now required to have a potent search functionality that can help you to find your document correctly and easily.

The Search functionality is one of the important aspects when choosing a CMS, and as you may know, Alfresco uses the Apache Lucene search engine; a high-performance, full-featured text search engine.

Along with the Lucene search engine, Alfresco's search capability is powered by Open Office, which is able to extract text from many file formats and make them available to the Lucene search engine. Thus, Alfresco, as a Content Management System, provides a powerful search mechanism by which users can easily search and find documents they are looking for.

Searching for content is normally done by users by keywords and metadata. Metadata means a property of files such as name, title, author, description, date, and so on. For example,...