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content relationships and business user usability

jwotman
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
I've looked through the features, demo, etc and do not see a way to establish relationships between pieces of content other than loosely through keywords.  Let me know if I'm missing something.  What I mean here is the ability to explicitly establish a connection between two or more pieces of content, preferably with some kind of named relationship.

Also, I come from the web content management world and my first response to Alfresco is that I can't imagine my business users being able to find their way around.  They started with Contribute which was quite intuitive for them and then moved to Mediasurface Morello which again provides an intuitive microsoft office-like environment where they are not confronted with a myriad of choices and are able to edit easily in-context or in a forms view.  Is it quite common for companies to create their own ui's.  If so, what's the timeframe that can be expected for creating one of moderate complexity.

Thanks in advance.
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pmonks
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
If you're using the DM modeling functionality then you'd use content associations (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide#Step_6:_Defining_Associations) for explicitly establishing relationships between content items.

If you're using the WCM modeling functionality (ie. XML Schema) then you'd use the XML Schema xs:anyURI data type and (optionally) configure the Web Forms UI to only allow certain types of relationship to be defined (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Developer_Guide#FilePicker_configuration_.28Web_Forms_only.29).