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POC questions before migrating platform from MS SharePoint 2010 to Alfresco?

nattapongk — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:28:24 GMT

Hi,I am interested in Alfresco and looking for a platform migration from MS SharePoint 2010 to Alfresco in order to support EDM. (now I use MS SharePoint 2010 to support EDM in the organization)Now I am working on proof-of-concept and got a few questions.1) In MS SharePoint 2010, I use "Document Set

Re: POC questions before migrating platform from MS SharePoint 2010 to Alfresco?

afaust — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 07:11:53 GMT

In Alfresco you could use the "Virtual Folders" feature to provide you with a functionality similar to the SharePoint Document Set one. In a virtual folder you can define automatic metadata assignment, so multiple files have the same metadata by default when they are filed there. Alternatively, any regular folder can act as a Document Set when combined with a Folder Rule to automatically assign a specific set of metadata on any new documents filed in the set. Rules can also utilise user-provided JavaScript files for any sort of automation / dynamic metadata assignment.

Technically, any node in Alfresco can have any number of "content properties", meaning you can within the data modelling capabilities of Alfresco define a type of record that has a native and a rendered content file assigned to it. By default though, the UI only supports single-content records and you'd have to do some minor UI customisation / extension to support multi-content records.

Re: POC questions before migrating platform from MS SharePoint 2010 to Alfresco?

nattapongk — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:08:03 GMT

Hi Axel, Thank you so much for the clear explanation.