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how to link business model to business objects

dargaz — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:37:47 GMT

Hi,We have just started evaluating Alfresco for our Document Management system.Like other organisations we have already stored our main business objects i.e. Property/Assets in our RDBMS which are being managed by other application. If we are to use Alfresco to store documents aganist each property/

Re: how to link business model to business objects

scapeler — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:20:42 GMT

Create for each business object a document type and add a property or aspect for the index/key.
Upload a document to the documenttype (like repairDocument), fill in the key property (edit metadata) with the value from your RDBMS repairrecord.

Re: how to link business model to business objects

dargaz — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:33:46 GMT

Thanks scapeler,

Create for each business object a document type

did you mean 'Create for each business task a document type' instead? For example Repiar document type is a business task and the property to which this repair doc belong is our business domain object.

And so if I add an 'aspect' or property to the doc type's metadata my question is 'are these metadata aspect fields fully available for CRUD?'

Re: how to link business model to business objects

scapeler — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:37:17 GMT

sorry for late response.

I don't know if I understand exactly what you mean but:

- there is a RDBMS with objects like 'gasstations' and attributes like 'Id' (primary key) and 'name'.
- Incoming documents must get related to these objects as per business task.

What you can do:
1. for business task 'Gas safety' create a content type 'Safety' with property 'RDBMS-Gasstation-Id'. Upload related documents into this contenttype, edit metadata 'RDBMS-Gasstation-Id' and change to Id from RDBMS object.
2. create a contenttype as 'folder' with property 'RDBMS-Gasstation-Id'. Create for the RDBMS-object 'X' a gasstation space "Gasstation X Safety' with this contenttype. Edit metadata and add the Id of the gasstation. Uploaded safety documents in this space will 'automatically' be related to the RDBMS-object via the space.