topic Re: Adding custom metadata, should I use doctype, aspect, rule? in Alfresco Archive

Adding custom metadata, should I use doctype, aspect, rule?

bluearth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:02 GMT

Hi all,I'm fairly new with alfresco and currently trying to find out how to do things alfresco way.I need to do simple thing : adding custom metadata to submitted contents. The property I needed to add consisting of simple text, date, and limited selection (combo box).From what I get from reading on

Re: Adding custom metadata, should I use doctype, aspect, rule?

jayjayecl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:23 GMT

Definitely create a custom aspect and add it to the submitted documents.
By the way, there are several ways to add the aspect to already existing documents (scheduled action, content rule, script executed …).