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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

Managing user groups


We have seen how to create a new user group and add users into groups in Chapter 3. In this recipe we will learn how create a subgroup and associate users with it.

Getting ready

Open the available groups in the system, this would be the interface.

You can see this listing is for Root Groups—this means the root level groups available in the system.

How to do it...

Let's create a subgroup in Alfresco Cookbook Authors group (remember, we created this group in recipe Creating Groups in Chapter 3).

  1. 1. Click on Alfresco Cookbook Authors group name. The group details information will appear. We had earlier added two users in this group.

    Note

    Note that, there is a breadcrumb trail displayed in this screen—Root Groups > Alfresco Cookbook Authors. This shows the hierarchy of the currently opened group.

  2. 2. Click on Create Group to create a subgroup under Alfresco Cookbook Authors. Let's call our new group as Chapter-5 Authors. Click on Create Group button.

  3. 3. As you can see, a new sub...