Basic help needed

[hcip]

We're a small law office looking at using Alfresco for document management.  What we would like to accomplish is as follows:

1. Saving of created documents to an organized shared repository, with versioning and check-out/check-in.
2. Assigning client and matter numbers (and a document description) to each document as it is created in Office/OpenOffice, hopefully with the ability to search for those numbers in the database.  Ideally the client numbers would be cross-referenced with a contacts database.
3. Organization in the repository based upon the client and matter numbers.
4 (optional) Assigning each document a serial number as it is saved to the repository.

I have searched through the forums here looking for ideas on how to get started setting this up (if it is even possible), but either my topic is too general or what I am trying to do is not really possible.  Any help you can offer, particularly of a more basic nature, to get us started (or beyond) would be much appreciated.

[rwetherall]

Hi,

You can almost certainly achieve what you want with Alfresco.

I would suggest installing the latest community version of Alfresco and investigating what it can do for you.

You can download Alfresco community installer here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_and_Install_Alfresco

Cheers,
Roy

[syoung68]

hcip, I too am looking at Alfresco for a law firm. We have the same needs as you plus it needs to integrate into Outlook/Exchange. I have not downloaded it yet as we are building out a server this week. I know there is a group that made docs4lawyers based on Alfresco, but I am not sure how updaed they are. I registered at their site, and I am waiting to hear back from them.

Reply to this post if you want to stay in touch with our buildouts.

[dramildodeja]

Hi Team,

I am new to Alfresco 3.x and my client has raised a request for implementing Alfresco, as an internal CMS. Can you provide me some links which makes me understand in brief about alfresco, how it works, steps to install and how modifications could be done?

Thanks much !!!
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