topic Re: unique identifier in Alfresco Archive

unique identifier

stecip75 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:07:22 GMT

Hello everyone,It's possible to add and visualize a unique identifier each document…???

Re: unique identifier

invictus9 — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:00:53 GMT

Can you explain what you mean by "visually unique identifier"? Do you mean an icon?

Re: unique identifier

stecip75 — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:11:17 GMT

I need a number that uniquely identifies the document.

Re: unique identifier

mrogers — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:18:46 GMT

Will its NodeRef work?

Re: unique identifier

shiree — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:03:54 GMT

Gidday, I would really like to know this too. Have a client about to install Alfresco - and big concern is that traditional EDRMS's let you insert the Document ID say in the footer of the Word Document. Then a user can simply search on the DocID - for a single retruned result.
How could this be replicated in Alfresco?
Regards

Re: unique identifier

mrogers — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:18:09 GMT

Are you looking to extract the docId from the footer or inject a generated value into the contents of the the word document?

Re: unique identifier

shiree — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:52:20 GMT

I want a unique ID generated by Alfresco - as a piece of metadata that is searchable.

This unique Doc ID then forms part of the file name - e.g.

#45678 - Letter to CEO - Monthly Audit.doc

This then can be used in Word by going insert Filename into the footer - and all staff know that #45678 is the Doc ID which is a unique search field.

I hope this helps.

Re: unique identifier

mrogers — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:03:56 GMT

So you could use the noderef, the docid or generate some sort of key property yourself.

You can run a rule or a policy which fires when a word document is loaded to which sets the name of your document according to your standards.

Re: unique identifier

shiree — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:23:02 GMT

Awesome thanks