Governance Services on Alfresco Community 23.4 – Classification & Security Marks Missing?

[slcunha]

Hi everyone,

I've recently been exploring Governance Services and installed the 23.4.1.1 AMPs on Alfresco Community 23.4. While watching some videos, I noticed that the document classification and security marks features were not available. After looking into the documentation, I saw that these features are included in the Enterprise edition, but there's no mention of them being available in the Community version.

Is it possible to use document classification and security marks with the Community edition?

Also, the distribution package comes with three files:

alfresco-governance-services-community-repo-23.4.1.1.amp
alfresco-governance-services-community-rest-api-explorer-23.4.1.1.war
alfresco-governance-services-community-share-23.4.0.46.amp
 
The .amp files I’ve placed in the appropriate amps and amps_share directories, but I’m unsure what to do with the .war file. Where should that go, and how is it used?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[angelborroy]

The Community build of Alfresco Governance Services (AGS) does include the classification & security‑marking capability. The only thing that’s not shipped to Community is the dedicated GS Security Marks REST API. All the UI‑driven functions (admin tools, “Classify” action in Share, clearance assignments, downgrade/declassify schedules, etc.) are present once the AGS modules are applied

Possible reasons that may explain your experience

Classification tools appear only inside a Governance Services (Records Management) site or when you invoke the Classify action from another site after AGS is installed. If you are browsing a plain “Collaboration” site, the action is suppressed.

Your user must be in RECORDS MANAGEMENT ADMIN before the “Classify” option and security‑mark admin screens show up.

Verify that alfresco-governance‑services‑community‑share‑23.4.0.46.amp was applied to share.war. A mismatch here hides the UI even though the repo AMP is present. Alternatively, you can use a Docker deployment with the images alfresco/alfresco-governance-repository-community and alfresco/alfresco-governance-share-community. Those provide full Repository and Share applications with the AMPs properly applied.

The file alfresco‑governance‑services‑community‑rest‑api‑explorer‑23.4.1.1.war is only a Swagger / OpenAPI browser for AGS endpoints. You can drop it in Alfresco Repository Tomcat webapps folder. It should be available in http://<host>:8080/gs-api-explorer.

If you need to script bulk creation of marks, reasons, or clearances via REST you’ll need the Enterprise build, because the GS Security Marks API is disabled in Community (you can still automate classification itself through the regular V1 Alfresco API by setting the rm:securityClassified and related properties directly)

[slcunha]

Thanks for the replies. I updated the Dockerfile to use the alfresco-governance-repository-community and alfresco-governance-share-community images, but I still don't see the "Classify" action available.

I'll try a fresh installation from scratch and will share feedback here.

[slcunha]

Hi,

I did the entire setup from scratch, used your script (alfresco-installer), installed version 23.4, and didn’t select any .amp to avoid potential issues. I edited the Dockerfile files inside  /alfresco and /share to use the images alfresco/alfresco-governance-repository-community  and alfresco/alfresco-governance-share-community . I created the RM site and noticed that AGS 23.4.0.46 was installed, but I still can’t find the classify action in either a collaboration site or RM. Is there anywhere else I can check this installation?

Thanks for any help.