upload documents of two different content types into a spac

[shikarishambu]

I have a custom content model that has three or 4 custom content types.

mycontent (derived from cm
-mysubcontent (derived from mycontent)
-…

I need to upload documents of two different content types into a space. I believe the way to load is to have a rule that specializes the content to a specific type. This works if the space only will have one content type. How do I handle two or more content types in the same space?

TIA

[zladuric]

Why not simply having two rules?

[shikarishambu]

The source application knows the type of document, alfresco has no way of discerning the type. I will have to replicate the function/knowledge that the source app has in Alfresco. I would rather find a way to tell alfresco while uploading the document type of the document.

[zladuric]

Can you add a metadata bit where you will specify the document type? Is there anything that you can use to recognize one document from another? Like, a name, author meta tag, mimetype, file extension, whatever?

[mdutoo]

Hi

What do you mean by "upload" ? File system upload ?

One idea : have two "inbox" spaces, one for each document type, with an additional rule that moves them to a third space where they will actually reside together.

Regards,
Marc

[zladuric]

You can also detect the mimetype of the document, if this is relevant. If you say what you mean by different types of the documents, there could be other options too.