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CIFS support for custom folders. Is it officially supported?

patil — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:33:44 GMT

Hi Team,In my content model I am creating folder of the type project by extending cm:folder.<type name="pcmroject"> <parent>cm:folder</parent> </type> I am able to access the folders of the type pcmroject throgh CIFS.But I wanted the confirmation from you peo

Re: CIFS support for custom folders. Is it officially supported?

afaust — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:21:08 GMT

Hello,

although it is a practical impossibility to list all things "officially supported" by Alfresco (since there are so much variants of how one may use it), I can say from experience that
a) this is supported
b) anything else, which extends from an Alfresco base type like "cm:folder", "cm:content" or "cm:cmobject" should be considered as supported, as long as you don't mess around with any of the Java services (i.e. modify the source and rebuild them)

Of course, Alfresco Engineers are free to prove me wrong…

Regards

Re: CIFS support for custom folders. Is it officially supported?

mrogers — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:43:58 GMT

The phrase "officially supported" means a feature of alfresco that is well tested and known to work. This is the case for CIFS support of custom folders.

However the phrase "not supported" has a few meanings. It could mean its not well tested. Or it could mean its been tested and found to be not working. Or it could be prototype code or deprecated code. Or it could simply be something that works correctly but does not comply with the license restrictions.

Re: CIFS support for custom folders. Is it officially supported?

patil — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:53:41 GMT

Thanks a lot for confirming the support of custom folders in CIFS mrogers.
Based on this my design would have got changed.
Thanks again.

Patil
ECM Consultant
Bangalore