Content Model Binding

[dhananjayjoshi]

Hi All,

Can someone suggest if I need to create some custom metadata before binding it to actual content, what can be the best practice? Also how this should be saved in the repository for best metadata search results (metadata entities can be in the range of multi-millions).

Thanks

Dhananjay

[openpj]

It's hard to reply to your question without knowing nothing about your domain of interest.

Could you please share with us your scenario?

I mean an ECM project typically starts with a need about dropping contents and then a specific way for retrieving them from the repository. This for helping users for working on contents and spend less time on their daily job.

An initial point could be think about how your users want to retrieve contents, I mean advanced search forms with its own fields and content types.

This is just an initial step for helping you to create your first content model but you have to involve the future users of the platform.

[mitpatoliya]

When you will transfer your unstructured contents in to Alfresco it will automatically set some of the basic metadata's like name, title, author etc.. based on type of content which you are uploading. Then you will be able to search those contents based on those basic metadata.

Now stag 2 where you feel you wants to go one more level and segregate your contents based on few extra parameters then custom content model comes into picture. Steps will be as follow.

• Identify different custom content types and related properties based on which you want to search your content.
• Create custom content model where you define all of that.
• Add configuration files to support new custom content model.
• Deploy all of that in alfresco.
• Now you will be able to tag your contents with custom content types and will be able to search based on that.

Content Model Tutorials | Alfresco Documentation  will give you all required detail on how to create & deploy custom models in alfresco