topic Re: Composite/Compound documents in Alfresco Archive

Composite/Compound documents

d_garry — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:17:36 GMT

Hello!Tell me, please, is it possible to implement compound (composite) documents in some way in Alfresco ECM?. This is about building logical links between documents / building document hierarchy, but without using Spaces. I'm using Alfresco 3.3 Community Edition. Look at these cases, for example:-

Re: Composite/Compound documents

mrogers — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:09:03 GMT

Links between documents in alfresco are called associations. You have already seen one important application of this with the file/folder structure but you can also link nodes together in a web as complicated as you can imagine.

You can also store the NodeRef of one document in a property on another document which is, I think, the answer to your first question.

You can also store links to "renditions" of a content property. You may have seen this with thumbnails in share, but you can also have a plain text rendition of a PDF etc. And if the source document changes then the "rendition" automatically updates.

There are of course other options, but hopefully that will get you started.

Re: Composite/Compound documents

d_garry — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:13:17 GMT

Thanks a lot! associations are exactly what i wanted.