topic Document Status in Alfresco Archive

Document Status

oxwing — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:42:36 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to evaluate Alfresco and I have a problem that will hopefully be simple for you guys who know the system…..In the online presentations, Ian Howells particularly points out how the status of a document is set to "Drafts" when put into the drafts folder and is updated via content rules a

Re: Document Status

gavinc — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:28:12 GMT

Have a look at the following wiki pages:

- http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide
- http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Constraints

Re: Document Status

oxwing — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:50:01 GMT

Many thanks for your help but unfortunately I'm still a bit stuck.

I can see from the wiki how to construct an xml file but I am confused because the folder containing all the xml files (/tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension) already has one containing a constraint called wfl:status and a set of values (see "lifecyclemodel.xml" - I stumbled across this). So why is this constraint not visible for the docs in my repository?

I don't understand how/when each xml file gets applied.

Thanks

Re: Document Status

gavinc — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:59:08 GMT

There should also be a file called "lifecycle-workflow-context.xml.sample", this needs to be renamed as "lifecycle-workflow-context.xml", this should then get read at startup.

Basically, any file ending with .sample is ignored.