Cross linking documents in Alfresco

[jfgonzalez]

Hello,

I am new to Alfresco, and work as a consultant for a company that has just implemented Alfresco Enterprise for their document storage solution.

In trying to cross-link documents to each other in Alfresco, I realized it was next to impossible due to the fact that the Share links that are generated for the document change when a document is uploaded. For example, if I want Document A to link to Document B (and vice versa), I can obtain that link to Document B quite easily and imbed that link in the appropriate section of Document A. I then upload Document A. I obtain the link to A and imbed the link in Document B. By then, though, Document A has been updated and the URL changed, so it no longer works.

I saw reference on another post describing a similar situation and it was suggested that cross-linking documents can be done by extending the content model and adding some metadata peer2peer associations. Is that something our developers need to do? I believe we purchased some kind of support for Alfresco. Just want to know what I need to tell our point person on this project.

Thanks!

[mrogers]

It sounds like you are embedding the wrong URL  :!:      It sounds like you are using a version specific URL, when you should be using something else like the NodeRef since that won't change during versioning.

Alfresco has lots of ways of "linking" content together, you can either do it within the content or within the metadata.

[jfgonzalez]

Thanks for pointing me in that direction. I tried exploring that option, but I do not get the option to modify the References section in the version of Alfresco we have. The References section doesn't even show up. I don't know if this is a permissions problem or not. I will check with the Administrator who set this up for us.

But thanks!

JFG