topic Re: grants.gov applications as virtual documents in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/grants-gov-applications-as-virtual-documents/m-p/63567#M39890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Like a lot of things with Alfresco, there may be ways to do things you want now, with existing bits of functionality, or there may be a bit of additional work to do to get something more specific.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could treat folders as containers for components of a "virtual" document, and use Presentation Templates or scripts to generate out the composite document.&nbsp; But, if the virtual document structure needs to be more tightly defined, you can define a new type based on Content that has associations to its composite pieces.&nbsp; Whether they are child-associations (like folder children) or plain ones depends on how you want certain behaviours to work - for example, delete something with child-associations and the children get deleted too.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you define your own types or aspects, then it's quite simple to add specific actions for them in the UI (perhaps just executing Alfresco JavaScript code against them).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Paul.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:43:54 GMT paulhh 2006-10-30T12:43:54Z grants.gov applications as virtual documents https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/grants-gov-applications-as-virtual-documents/m-p/63566#M39889 I saw this on the Alfresco roadmap.There is a lot of interest in publishing and virtual document tools. We welcome people with publish experience to work with the powerful tools that are already integrated. The JSR-170 model of children nodes works well for creating virtual documents. The Freemarker Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:17:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/grants-gov-applications-as-virtual-documents/m-p/63566#M39889 kgeis 2006-10-30T06:17:12Z Re: grants.gov applications as virtual documents https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/grants-gov-applications-as-virtual-documents/m-p/63567#M39890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Like a lot of things with Alfresco, there may be ways to do things you want now, with existing bits of functionality, or there may be a bit of additional work to do to get something more specific.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could treat folders as containers for components of a "virtual" document, and use Presentation Templates or scripts to generate out the composite document.&nbsp; But, if the virtual document structure needs to be more tightly defined, you can define a new type based on Content that has associations to its composite pieces.&nbsp; Whether they are child-associations (like folder children) or plain ones depends on how you want certain behaviours to work - for example, delete something with child-associations and the children get deleted too.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you define your own types or aspects, then it's quite simple to add specific actions for them in the UI (perhaps just executing Alfresco JavaScript code against them).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Paul.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:43:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/grants-gov-applications-as-virtual-documents/m-p/63567#M39890 paulhh 2006-10-30T12:43:54Z