topic Re: Create MS Word templates with DTD in Alfresco Archive

Create MS Word templates with DTD

rscheele — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:12:19 GMT

Hello,does Alfresco support using predefinied MS Word documents using the document type definition, so that metadata can be automatically extracted and user have to fill in all the relevant information in a document?

Re: Create MS Word templates with DTD

jbarmash — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:58:56 GMT

Hello,

does Alfresco support using predefinied MS Word documents using the document type definition, so that metadata can be automatically extracted and user have to fill in all the relevant information in a document?

Can you explain more about "predefined ms word documents using document type definition," perhaps provide an example?

You can extract metadata from a ms word document. Take a look at the following wiki page:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction

From the page:

" One of the default actions that can be triggered in a space is Extract Common Metadata. This action will look at the mimetype of the document that triggered the rule and request an appropriate MetadataExtracter from the default MetadataExtracterRegistry. Each extractor is registered to handle a set of mimetypes. "

Re: Create MS Word templates with DTD

rscheele — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:15:41 GMT

I mean a template for e.g. an invoice, which employees can use and fill in the neccessary information in a structured way. The way to create such templates is the DTD , an XML standard for defining structured documents. When the user uploads the document to alfresco, the DTD elements are automatically extracted.. thats what i meant