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Alfresco for CRUD type data management

derekw — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:07:54 GMT

Hi. Evaluating Alfresco here and I am wondering if this CMS is useful for:A) Creating data stores. (basically mimicking a database: say a table for dogs, a table for owners and a table for dog-owners that would be related, naturally)B) Easy CRUD (create,read,update,delete) functionality…. essentiall

Re: Alfresco for CRUD type data management

mrogers — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:37:45 GMT

Yes alfresco will do this. You can define a "dog" type. And associate an "owners" type.

However its primary purpose is to manage content, rather than being a DB tool. And in particular Alfresco may over simplify some of the pure relational database concepts to make it easier for content management use-cases.

Re: Alfresco for CRUD type data management

derekw — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:02:40 GMT

Yes alfresco will do this. You can define a "dog" type. And associate an "owners" type.

However its primary purpose is to manage content, rather than being a DB tool. And in particular Alfresco may over simplify some of the pure relational database concepts to make it easier for content management use-cases.

Must have missed this… exactly how do you go about creating data types?

Re: Alfresco for CRUD type data management

derekw — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:35:18 GMT

Looking into Alfresco more…

Just not seeing how to create rows of data easily in a table like store.

I see how to create pieces of data (content) with metadata about the item… but this isn't what I'm looking for.

Re: Alfresco for CRUD type data management

mrogers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:46:08 GMT

You don't have to have types with content peroperties, for example alfresco's cmerson type or the DataLists in Share.