Alfresco Content Modeling Tutorial: Custom Types, Aspects & Metadata Design
A well-designed content model is one of the foundations of a successful Alfresco Content Services implementation. Organizations rarely manage only generic documents. They manage business objects such as: Contracts Invoices Employee documents Policies Purchase orders Technical documents Customer records Legal documents Each document may require its own metadata, validation rules, lifecycle information and business relationships. This is where Alfresco Content Modeling becomes important. Instead of treating every document simply as a file, Alfresco allows developers and architects to describe the business meaning of content using types, aspects, properties, constraints and associations. Alfresco Content Services stores content together with metadata and associations in its repository, while properties defined by content models can also participate in search. In this tutorial, we will explore: What an Alfresco content model is Custom namespaces Cust...