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Alfresco for content management, .Net for delivery?

markkennnedy — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:42:01 GMT

Hello,I currently work on a .Net web site where content is stored in XML documents and metadata about the documents is stored in SQL Server. At request time, ASP.Net code is responsible for assembling and delivering the content.Content is generated and managed using on an old, homegrown CMS that we'

Re: Alfresco for content management, .Net for delivery?

alexander — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:37:40 GMT

Hi Mark

I think a lot of what you think can be done almost out of the box.

1) You can manage all your XML content through Alfresco WCM.

2) Mount CIFs folder, that expose your website space "Staging" area as a windows drive. It will make it appear that all your published XML files are just sitting in a windows folder. It might be somewhere under <hostname>_a/AVM

3) Metadata is also exposed on the filesystem in a form of XML file (look for METADATA folder. If you require metadata to be in the database, build an import process, that will load XML docs from that folder and import in the DB.

Thanks
Alexander

Re: Alfresco for content management, .Net for delivery?

markkennnedy — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:18 GMT

Thanks, Alexander. That information helps. I guess I need to do a little digging into WCM to see how it could fit into my world.

MK