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Creation of document with structured document id?

johanp — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:43:45 GMT

My organization is in the proces of updating our antiquated document management. We use a structured document numbering system to create unique (but still understandable) document id depending on organization unit, area, type of dcument etc. In our current system this is created automatically for th

Re: Creation of document with structured document id?

sylvain78 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:22:52 GMT

Hi,

I would suggest that using custom behaviors,it would be fairly easy to implement this feature as long as the mandatory properties are known on document creation.
More importantly, custom behaviours are repository-wide so they will apply no matter how you capture the document (WebDAV, CIFS, IMAP, etc.).

Excellent tutorial by Jeff Potts :
http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-behavior/behavior-article.pdf

Anybody has a better idea?

Sylvain

Re: Creation of document with structured document id?

marutiprasad — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:48:00 GMT

i think a custom meta data filed is an ideal option because the default alfresco properties like noderef customization is not an secure option. you can do the following

1. create a metadata and define the same in an aspect.
2. for that particular content type (your own/default one) add the aspect.
3. update the aspects metadata property.

using the alfresco rules we can trigger the above script.