Document classification problem

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ā10-15-2007 10:27 AM
Hello -
Please help out the newbie.
I'm trying to set up alfresco to do very simple document management at a new company - it all looks good, but there's a couple things I'm not "getting".
I want to set things up so that team members can upload content (mainly Word docs), and be able to find documents easily. Here's what I'm doing:
1. Set up a 'Documentation' space under the 'Company Home' and invite users to that space.
2. Set up some sub-spaces under Documentation to handle some hard-wired classification.
When the user uploads a doc to a documentation sub-space, they enter the 'Description' and 'Author' and the doc is available.
A couple questions:
1. Is this the right way to structure things?
2. I've discovered that you *cannot* search on the 'Description' field entered when the file was uploaded - this is a bug?
3. Ideally, I'd like to be able to define a set of properties (if that's the right word) for the user to fill out on file upload - can anyone point me to the docs on how to do this?
Any help is appreciated - I'm thinking I'm doing things "wrong" and so any help would be really great.
Many thanks.
parkiā¦
Please help out the newbie.

I'm trying to set up alfresco to do very simple document management at a new company - it all looks good, but there's a couple things I'm not "getting".
I want to set things up so that team members can upload content (mainly Word docs), and be able to find documents easily. Here's what I'm doing:
1. Set up a 'Documentation' space under the 'Company Home' and invite users to that space.
2. Set up some sub-spaces under Documentation to handle some hard-wired classification.
When the user uploads a doc to a documentation sub-space, they enter the 'Description' and 'Author' and the doc is available.
A couple questions:
1. Is this the right way to structure things?
2. I've discovered that you *cannot* search on the 'Description' field entered when the file was uploaded - this is a bug?
3. Ideally, I'd like to be able to define a set of properties (if that's the right word) for the user to fill out on file upload - can anyone point me to the docs on how to do this?
Any help is appreciated - I'm thinking I'm doing things "wrong" and so any help would be really great.
Many thanks.
parkiā¦
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ā10-15-2007 05:49 PM
Please - can someone take 5 minutes out to help?
I feel that a pointer in the right direction will help a lot - I'm having troubles eval this without being able to get over these early hurdles.
Many thanks.
parkiā¦
I feel that a pointer in the right direction will help a lot - I'm having troubles eval this without being able to get over these early hurdles.
Many thanks.
parkiā¦

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ā10-18-2007 05:11 AM
Have a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Developer_Guide
Especially http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide
Especially http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide

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ā10-26-2007 07:10 AM
2. I've discovered that you *cannot* search on the 'Description' field entered when the file was uploaded - this is a bug?
You can configure the client to search on any field including description by default:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Simple_Customisations#Additional_additional_attributes_to_the_Simple_S...
Thanks,
Kevin
