Composite/Compound documents

[d_garry]

Hello!
Tell me, please, is it possible to implement compound (composite) documents in some way in Alfresco ECM?. This is about building logical links between documents / building document hierarchy, but without using Spaces. I'm using Alfresco 3.3 Community Edition.
Look at these cases, for example:
- i need to store a link to some document inside Alfresco as a metadata parameter of another document. E.g. i'm ulpoading a document (using "add content"), fill in some document parameters, and one of these parametesi is a link to some other document (earlier uploaded to Alfresco), creating a parent-child link between documents;
- i need to create some kind of multipart document (e.g. one .pdf document and one .txt review);
- i need to create Attachments (e.g. to attach one document to another).
Any opinions/hints/infos/links are greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
PS If there is something mentioned above only in Enterprise and not in Community edition - also, let me know, please.

[mrogers]

Links between documents in alfresco are called associations.   You have already seen one important application of this with the file/folder structure but you can also link nodes together in a web as complicated as you can imagine. 

You can also store the NodeRef of one document in a property on another document which is, I think, the answer to your first question.

You can also store links to "renditions" of a content property.    You may have seen this with thumbnails in share, but you can also have a plain text rendition of a PDF etc.   And if the source document changes then the "rendition" automatically updates.

There are of course other options, but hopefully that will get you started.

[d_garry]

Thanks a lot! associations are exactly what i wanted.