very,very,very important feature in alfresco must Have....?

[darkangle]

hi all,

I have a long experince in CM and DMS systems. so i think alfresco will be on e of the best information managment systems, but my questions are….

Q1:I create a custom content type with its attribute and adding this custom type as an aspect to space but i want to have in advance search screen feature that can let me select between more than one content type and based on my select the attribute for that custom type will be appear…..?

Q2: is there any way to link custom content to specific user or group so no one else can search or add value that are related to this content type.

I am in evaluation period to alfresco product to decide if our company will go with alfresco or not, so please help me

 
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[kevinr]

1. This can be done in a round-about way at the moment. It is not as clean as you suggest - and would make a nice improvement. Anyway to do this, you create a Rule on the root space and make it inherited (so that it affects all spaces under it). Your rule should  fire on INBOUND objects of cm:folder, and then Specialize Type to your custom type. The attribute for editing will then be available on all new spaces created under the one with the rule. You will also need to configure the UI to display the custom property in the properties editing screen.
The other option is to configure the web-client to allow your users to create spaces of the the custom type explicity in the UI:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata#Creating_Custom_Space_Types_in_the_Web_Clie...
But that means they will only be of the custom type if they choose to make them so.
Also rather than using custom types, you can get into using Aspects on a space/document - they are useful for adding mix-in style additional meta-data to any object via Rules or otherwise.

2. Permissions can be applied at the document level - so yes you can modify the permissions on a document to Invite a specific Group only, and then remove Inherited permissions and then only that Group will have visibility for searching (or editing etc. as per the permission assigned).

Thanks,

Kevin