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Best practices: Content Model namespace prefix

nikes — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:49:25 GMT

Hi guys I need suggestion to design content model containing various departments documents.I am developing a solution for our organization which stores all types of documents from various departments say….Presales - Various documents like Proposal, Presentations, Product Knowledge base etc…….P

Re: Best practices: Content Model namespace prefix

nancyg — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:00:18 GMT

Hello Nikesh,

Jeff Potts has a good article about content models on his site, you can find it here http://ecmarchitect.com/categories/content-management/alfresco-developer-series.

You should read the entire article but here is a brief excerpt:

Don't be afraid to have more than one content model XML file. We haven't talked about exactly
how content models are defined yet, but when it is time to implement your model, keep this in
mind: It might make sense to segment your models into multiple namespaces and multiple
XML files. Names should be descriptive. Don't deploy a model file called “customModel.xml”
or “myModel.xml”.

Nancy

Re: Best practices: Content Model namespace prefix

nikes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:19:53 GMT

Thanks Nancy,

I have already bought jpotts's book.

My concern is with searching the contents if I use different namespaces for model files people, project, commercial etc.. instead of 1.

Also in my requirement some document types are common in Project,People and Commercial. So I thought to put those types in super type org.

I will implement my model in multiple files each with its own namespace and prefix. Also I have created separate model file to define all constraints.

Nikesh