inventory tracking system

[desci]

Hi

I am a  brand new user with Alfresco. Actually i 've been starting my journey with Alfresco since yesterday . I am looking for a tool to easily roll out a kind of  ERM Solution . From what i read Yesterday and what i saw when working with alfresco , the data Documentary Feature could help me designing my solution . But i still have my own business cases , for instance All documents created in data documentary must match to physical documents in our archives room,  and i need to monitor movement of theses physical documents like an inventory tracking system : Who hold the physical folders now ? Since When ? for how long ? How many physical Folders in the room now ?

For sure this is not taking into consideration with alfresco , but As it is a modulable tool and open source , is there any ways to adapt my business case to thoses already existing in alfresco ?
Should I create a new Feature or add-on  to achieve my goals  ?

Thank you  for your support .

regards

[jpotts]

You can extend the out-of-the-box content model with your own content model. You can define properties like "physical location" and "location date" or whatever you need. If you need to track the movement of those documents over time you will need to use either multi-value fields or create separate documents to store each physical location and date, then link to those documents with associations from the main document.

That's a detailed way of saying, "Yes, you can do what you're trying to do".

You will definitely want to package your extensions as an AMP for ease of maintenance.

Jeff