1) How does Alfresco ensure that document approval is done by the person that submits a doc ?
2) Is there an audit trail to determine the who/when/what was done by a user in the system ?
3) Can Alfresco publish documents in restricted PDF format and therefore prevent/restrict unauthorized persons from opening it ?
4) Is there a way for alfresco to allow viewing of a document but not printing of that document, or restrict who has the ability to print vs. view a document?
5) Can alfresco replace my guard dog, my home security system and check my closet for the boogie man (this is a make or break people !!!)
1) Workflows are highly configurable, you can assign the document to a specific user - then only that user will be able to transition the workflow to the next state.
2) Yes, Alfresco supports full audit trail right down to very low level service operations (i.e. READ, WRITE) if you wish.
3) Not out-of-the-box no. But there is nothing stopping you adding a new PDF transformer class/library that can do this. All Alfresco services are fully pluggable, and the transformation services are particularly configurable. It is easy enough to add a custom transformer and then use that to generate restricted PDFs or whatever else you see fit.
4) Not using the default web-application setup. Once a user can downloaded or viewed the content there is nothing stopping them doing anything the like with the copy. To do this, you would have to integrate a custom viewer application that utilised the Alfresco services to check permissions and only allowed the user certain actions on the viewed content. You can configure a custom permissions model that has PRINT as a new type of permission - but you would need the custom viewer application that made use of it.
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Thanks,
Kevin
