Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation -- Table of Contents -- Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Co-Authors -- Acknowledgements -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Alfresco -- An overview of Alfresco -- Leveraging the benefits of open source -- State-of-the-art content repository -- Scalable architecture -- Open standards-based underlying components -- Globalization support -- Security and access control -- Essential library services -- Business process automation -- Enterprise integration -- Alfresco Enterprise 3.0-An overview -- Alfresco Network -- Alfresco Web Studio -- Alfresco Share -- Alfresco Surf -- Alfresco Repository Public API -- Alfresco Draft CMIS Implementation -- Microsoft SharePoint Protocol support -- How you can benefit from Alfresco -- Using Alfresco for document management -- Using Alfresco for records management -- Using Alfresco for web content management -- Using Alfresco for collaboration management -- Using Alfresco for enterprise content search -- Applications of Alfresco -- How does the future look like with Alfresco? -- Enterprise versus Community Labs -- Better support options -- Free upgrades -- Implementing an example solution using Alfresco -- Where do you get more information? -- Summary -- 2. Installing Alfresco -- Installing Alfresco -- Out of the box installation architecture -- Client Applications layer -- Repository Services layer -- Data Storage layer -- The components of Alfresco applications -- Accessing the application -- Choosing the right installation option -- Enterprise and community editions.

Operating systems-Windows, Linux, UNIX, and MacOS -- Databases-MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL -- Application servers-Tomcat and JBoss -- Portals (optional)-JBoss Portal and Liferay -- Choose the appropriate software for your installation -- Installing on Microsoft Windows -- Full installation -- Installation of the Alfresco Tomcat bundle -- Installing Java SE Developer Kit -- Installing Alfresco bundled with Tomcat -- Installation of other Alfresco Components -- Installing SharePoint Protocol Support -- Installing the Alfresco license file -- Installing and configuring the MySQL database -- Installing OpenOffice -- Installing Image Magick and CIFS -- Installing Image Magick -- Installing CIFS -- Installing WCM -- Installing Microsoft Office Add-ins -- Installing Flash player -- Installing SWFTools -- Installation folder structure -- Starting and stopping Alfresco as a console application -- Configuring Alfresco as a Windows service -- Installing on Linux -- Installing extensions with AMP Install -- Summary -- 3. Getting Started with Alfresco -- Introduction to Alfresco Explorer -- Log in to Alfresco as an Administrator -- Screen layout -- Tool Bar -- Navigator -- Navigator Tree View -- Shelf -- OpenSearch -- Categories logical view -- Breadcrumbs -- Header -- Detail -- Administration Console -- User and groups management -- Category management -- Data management -- System information -- Getting started with content creation -- Create space -- Create content -- Create a link to content -- My Alfresco dashboards -- Choosing the My Alfresco dashboard as the start location -- Configuring personal dashboard using wizard -- Step one: Selection of layout -- Step two: Selecting components -- Start with basic configuration -- Extend Alfresco configuration -- Alfresco ConfigRoot folder -- Alfresco extension folder -- Configuration approach.

Packaging and deploying Java extensions -- Install the enterprise license file -- Change the default administrator password -- Configure the content store -- Configure the relational database -- Configure the email service and email server -- Outbound email service -- Inbound email server -- Configure the log files -- Configure the Alfresco virtual file system -- Configure the file systems -- Configure the default logos -- Customize the look and feel using CSS -- Configure multilanguage support -- Creating a blue print for your application -- Enterprise intranet as a theme -- Features you are going to implement -- Summary -- 4. Implementing Membership and Security -- The Alfresco membership and security model -- Users and groups -- Permissions and roles -- Authentication -- How is security imposed in Alfresco? -- Manage system users -- Creating new users -- Search for existing users in Alfresco Explorer -- Modify user details -- Deleting a user -- Individual user access -- New user log in and my homepage -- Update personal details and password -- Search for existing users in Alfresco share -- Modify user details using share -- Manage user groups -- Create groups and subgroups -- Add users to a group -- Remove users from a group -- Extend security permissions and roles -- Default permissions -- Default roles -- Create a custom role -- Secure your spaces -- User roles on a space -- Invite users to your space -- Define and secure your spaces -- Secure your content -- User roles for content -- Invite users to your content -- Choosing the correct security model for you -- Use Alfresco's out of the box membership system -- Configuring LDAP for centralized identity management -- LDAP configuration with active directory -- LDAP synchronisation -- Daisy chaining -- Configuring NTLM for Single sign-on -- SSO with active directory -- SSO with CAS.

Migrate existing users to Alfresco -- Using command-line scripts for the bulk uploading of users -- Bootstrapping the Alfresco repository with predefined user data -- Using web services API to create users -- Summary -- 5. Implementing Document Management -- Managing spaces -- Space is a smart folder -- Why space hierarchy is important -- Editing a space -- Editing space properties -- Deleting space and its contents -- Moving or copying space by using the clipboard -- Creating a shortcut to a space for quick access -- Choosing a default view for your space -- Sample space structure for marketing project -- Managing content -- Creating content -- Creating text documents -- Uploading binary files such as Word, PDF, Flash, Image, Media -- Editing content -- Online editing of HTML, text, and XML -- Offline editing of files -- Uploading updated content -- Content actions -- Deleting content -- Moving or copying content using the clipboard -- Creating a shortcut to the content for quick access -- Managing content properties -- What is Content Metadata? -- Metadata extractors -- Editing metadata -- Adding additional properties -- Library services -- Versioning -- Auto Versioning -- Check In and Check Out -- Checking out documents -- Checking in the working copy -- Undo Check Out to unlock a document -- Categorizing content -- Managing categories -- Adding categories to content -- Search content by category -- Managing multilingual content -- Versions of Multilingual Content -- Deleting Multilingual Content -- Using network drives to manage content -- CIFS -- Mapping the drive -- Drag-and-drop documents in Alfresco through CIFS -- Check Out and Check In documents in CIFS -- File Transfer Protocol -- WebDAV -- Microsoft Office 2003 add-ins -- Support for Microsoft Office 2007 -- Installation -- Configuration -- Features of MS Word add-in.

Editing a file in Word -- Recovering deleted content -- The Data Dictionary and space templates -- The Data Dictionary space -- Space templates for a reusable space structure -- Creating a new space template for reuse -- Using an existing space template to create a new space -- Discussions on spaces and documents -- Discussion forums for collaboration -- Forum space -- Creating discussion forums in the forum space -- Creating topics in the forum -- Replying to topics -- Departmental forums and security -- Defining forums for groups within a department -- Inter-department collaboration through spaces -- Managing space users -- Space collaboration through email -- Starting a discussion on a specific space -- Content collaboration -- Owner invites individuals to collaborate on content -- RSS syndication -- Using RSS feeds -- RSS templates -- Migrating existing content into Alfresco -- Drag-and-drop content to the network drive -- Using web services to migrate content -- The ACP Generator's bulk upload utility -- Summary -- 6. Implementing Business Rules -- Using business rules on spaces -- Organize documents automatically -- Run rules in the background -- Dynamically add properties to a document -- Automatic versioning of documents -- Send notifications to specific people -- Chaining all of the business rules -- Built-in business rules -- How these business rules work -- Checking the conditions -- What are the actions that are executed? -- When are these rules triggered? -- Applying actions to individual content -- Removing an aspect from a content -- Handling content transformations -- Transforming a Word document to PDF -- Resizing and transforming images -- OpenDocument Format -- Converting Microsoft Office documents to ODF -- Built-in transformations -- Executing JavaScript as business rules -- Use built-in JavaScript as actions.

Extend business rules with custom JavaScript.