Alfresco 3 Spaces in Alfresco 5

martijnburger — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:17:26 GMT

I am reading a book about Alfresco 3. In that book they are talking about Spaces as a central concept, it is defined as: Space is a folder with additional features, such as, security, business rules, workflow, notifications, local search capabilities, and special views.I could not find anything abou

Re: Alfresco 3 Spaces in Alfresco 5

mrogers — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:28:08 GMT

The term comes from the early days of alfresco, alfresco has "spaces", windows has "folders", dos has "directories". To all intents and purposes a "space" in alfresco is a synonym for a "folder". In fact one of the core services is called the FileFolderService.

There's a pedantic discussion about the difference to be had and perhaps it may be important some day as and when alfresco gets more "folder" types. I will start the discussion by saying a folder in alfresco is a type of space. Certainly everything displayed by Alfresco Share is a "folder". There are likely to be one or two examples where there's a difference, however I can't think of an example so it's going to be obscure!

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