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Migration from existing commerical CMS to Alfresco

jharvey — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:18:58 GMT

Hi all,I apologise in advance if this is the wrong place for this posting - let me know and i'll move it!I work for an IT and Business solutions company that is evaluating the possibility of migrating a client from an existing commerical CMS (that has been in place for 2 years) to Alfresco. I have a

Re: Migration from existing commerical CMS to Alfresco

davidc — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:06:16 GMT

Hi,

- Content types

The http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Data_Dictionary_Guide provides an explanation of content types (how to configure etc) as well as how to customise the web client for those types e.g. property, edit dialogs.

Re: Migration from existing commerical CMS to Alfresco

jharvey — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:49:44 GMT

Hi,

- Content types

The http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Data_Dictionary_Guide provides an explanation of content types (how to configure etc) as well as how to customise the web client for those types e.g. property, edit dialogs.

Excellent - taken a look and it seems as though the modelling architecture would allow for the simple relationships that I described in my original posting. However, as a newcomer to the CMS domain, I'm still a little unclear about the distinction between aspect and type. Would anyone be able to shed some more light onto this?

Re: Migration from existing commerical CMS to Alfresco

davidc — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:17:35 GMT

The following link may help - http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=222.

Re: Migration from existing commerical CMS to Alfresco

jharvey — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:32:06 GMT

The following link may help - http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=222.

Thanks David. Reverting to OOP-esque notation, so long as we can define the Alfresco equivilent of an object, and it will contain a reference to another object (eg. declare a House which will contain 1..* Bedrooms) to reuse the Bedroom object somewhere else (eg in an Apartment object) that is all we need.
The Data Dictionary seems to allow for this so its looking pretty good at the moment!

Best regards,