topic Re: Alfresco Directory Structure in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Directory Structure

joelrobinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:36:01 GMT

I have been going through the tutorial series found at <a>http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series</a> and I’m slightly confused about the directory structure specifically how it relates to loading the xml config files. For example what is the difference between putting custom m

Re: Alfresco Directory Structure

mrogers — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:11:13 GMT

Your Configurations files go into the "shared" folder. You are right that you could put them elsewhere however but if you then have to redeploy or upgrade your files will be removed.

And there are two "webapps", share and alfresco. Share is the share user interface, alfresco is the alfresco repository.

Re: Alfresco Directory Structure

joelrobinson — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:42:34 GMT

thanks for the reply mrogers. Do custom models need to go under the alfresco repository or under shared folder? What is best practice?

Re: Alfresco Directory Structure

mitpatoliya — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:54:58 GMT

Hi Robinson,
As suggested earlier by mrogers Your custom model should go in to shared folder as a best practice because it will prevent your customizations during upgrade or migration.