Alfresco Share 4.0 Community Questions

[herner]

Hi forum, I new with Alfresco and I have some question. I#ve searched in this forum but I found no answers:

1. Is it possible to merge contact lists from different sites into one big contact list (or put it into one database table)?

2. Is it possible to add more (custom) attributes to the create site dialog and use this attribute direct in the underlying database?

3. Alfresco stores the content in *.bin files in the file system and not in the database, right? It there a way to store the content in the database?

Thanks a lot, a little bit more about me: I used SharePoint in the past found and evaluated Alfresco a few weeks ago. So for further project I will use Alfresco. Alfresco has a modern GUI and meets all my needs.

Regards, Arnd.

[mrogers]

1. Is it possible to merge contact lists from different sites into one big contact list (or put it into one database table)?
Yes - but you will need to do it in code.
An alternative is to model a different type of contact list, one that is not related to a site.

2. Is it possible to add more (custom) attributes to the create site dialog and use this attribute direct in the underlying database?
Yes.

3. Alfresco stores the content in *.bin files in the file system and not in the database, right? It there a way to store the content in the database?
Yes there are database content stores available however we (engineering) have always expected that there will be performance penalties with that approach.   I've never seen comparison figures though. :mrgreen:

[herner]

Hi,

where can i find more information for point 2 and what is the best approach for point 1?

Regards, Arnd

[kqfflo]

Alfresco stores the content in *.bin files in the file system and not in the database, right? It there a way to store the content in the database?

Sorry for asking, but this is something which makes imho absolutely no sense. What might be the reason to do it in that way? Especially when I think of backup and restore with the keyfiles … in my studys we were always told that "storing files in databases is like putting a house into a house and then on fire" -  makes no sense.

[herner]

Hi,

with sharepoint I can access the content with database views. This was my first though to merge the contact lists from multiple alfresco sites and use a view to display all entries in a custom page. But this is not possible with Alfresco. Now I'm searching for another way to merge contact lists from different sites into on contact list.

Regards, Arnd.