topic Re: Applying multiple of same aspect to content.. Is it possible in Alfresco Archive

Applying multiple of same aspect to content.. Is it possible

tonyc — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:31:48 GMT

Hello,I'm currently developing a content model in which I have a "mailed" aspect. The problem I have is that I can "mail" said piece of content to multiple people or multiple times, and I wish to keep all that information in the content properties, not just the last update. So for example if I pul

Re: Applying multiple of same aspect to content.. Is it possible

mrogers — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:44:18 GMT

The "normal" way to do this would be to make each of your "records of mailing" separate nodes with an association between your content item and the records of emailing.

Re: Applying multiple of same aspect to content.. Is it possible

tonyc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:41:18 GMT

Thanks for your reply,

One question regarding that method though, how expensive is it to create those child assoc. nodes? If i was to add ten thousand pieces of content to the repo, the nodes would be twenty thousand. I'm worried that as our repo fills up ( around 2 million after a year ) with documents that performance would may take a hit.. Do you think that is something I should be concerned with?

Re: Applying multiple of same aspect to content.. Is it possible

mrogers — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:57:01 GMT

Nodes and associations are quite cheap.

But as with any sort of database, what is more expensive is processing large numbers of nodes.