topic Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects? in Alfresco Archive

Best way to compartmentalize projects?

statman99 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:53:28 GMT

Alfresco newbie using 3.4d Community edition. I want to use Alfresco by managing multiple projects but other than the admins, the users should have neither access to nor knowledge of projects he or she is not assigned to. So a user would log in and would only see projects to which he or she has been

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

zaizi — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:28:27 GMT

Multi tenancy? http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Multi-Tenancy

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

abhashree — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:12:41 GMT

Hi,
I also prefer multi tenancy for the requirement.

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

statman99 — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:43:45 GMT

Thanks, Multi-tenacy appears to be exactly what I need.

But I'm confused by the naming convention for the Tenants. From the documentation

create <tenant domain> <tenant admin password> [<root contentstore dir>]

   create zzz.com l3tm31n /usr/tenantstores/zzz
   create yyy.zzz.com g00dby3 /usr/tenantstores/yyy.zzz
   create myorg h3ll0

Why use domain URLs for tenant names?
Can I use spaces in the Tenant name? I'd like to call them Project A, Project B. So does it have to be ProjectA, ProjectB?

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

abhashree — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:14:26 GMT

Hi Statman99 ,

Alfresco multitennancy has its own feature.
So while creating a mulitenant we use domain URL for tenant name .
You can give anything to a tenant name.But always follow the naming standard.
Whose space name you want to give to a tenant name?

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

statman99 — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:14:17 GMT

Hi Statman99 ,

Alfresco multitennancy has its own feature.
So while creating a mulitenant we use domain URL for tenant name .
You can give anything to a tenant name.But always follow the naming standard.
Whose space name you want to give to a tenant name?

Space as in calling the tenant Project A instead of ProjectA.

I still don't understand the naming standard. Why name a tenant with a URL-like description?

And for delete <tenant domain>. The documentation says to restart the server. Which server? Apache? Tomcat? Should Alfresco be restarted? And are the index directories that have to be deleted from the database such as MySQL?

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

jneeve — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:56:13 GMT

Does anyone know how well the Multi Tenancy works in reality? I've heard that while in theory it was a good idea, in reality it perhaps doesnt work quite as well as advertised.

Re: Best way to compartmentalize projects?

samuel2 — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:12:27 GMT

I really need to know about Multi Tenancy too 'cause I'm having the same concern. Heard a lot about it, just want to make sure it's really as good as it seems. Any feedbacks on it? Thx