Chapter 5. Implementing Document Management

This chapter introduces you to the basic features of creating and managing content in Alfresco using Alfresco Explorer. With Alfresco, you can manage any type of document, such as HTML, text, XML, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Flash, scanned image, media, and video files. You will also understand the concepts of creating and using categories and smart spaces. This chapter also focuses on the most important aspect of adopting a new enterprise content management system, which is migrating the existing data and using it effectively. In this chapter, you will learn various secure ways to share your content online using the syndication features.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:

• Create spaces and fill them with documents
• Automatically control the document versioning
• Lock, check-in, and check-out the documents
• Categorizing content so that you could facilitate search
• Access documents in the Alfresco repository from...