topic How should we lay out the repository? in Alfresco Archive

How should we lay out the repository?

darryl_staflund — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:52:48 GMT

Hi everyone,I am helping a company develop a web application that they will use to upload, categorize, and search corporate documents. We have developed the content and a a high-level overview of the application design, but are really having difficulty deciding on how to organize these documents in

Re: How should we lay out the repository?

darryl_staflund — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:10:34 GMT

Hi again,

I have been talking about this problem with a colleague of mine and I think we're going to adopt a strategy similar to Git – where we generate document hash and use it to locate it within the repository. For example, if the hash value for a given document is:


    12AE45FBBC98847ACCD12E456FB34ECD
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we could store it in:


    /12
        /AE
            /45
                /FBBC98847ACCD12E456FB34ECD (The document name)
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This should ensure even distribution of the document, although we will have to develop a custom search in order to locate these documents. This is our initial thought, anwyay.

Darryl

Re: How should we lay out the repository?

mrogers — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:22 GMT

What problem are you trying to solve?

You could also lay out documents based on creation date, that's how the content repository works internally.