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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

You're reading from   Alfresco 3 Cookbook Over 70 recipes for implementing the most important functionalities of Alfresco

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511087
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating and Organizing Contents 3. Securing and Searching Contents 4. Rules—the Smart Spaces 5. Alfresco Administration Console 6. Customizing Alfresco Web Client 7. Alfresco Content Model 8. Alfresco JavaScript API 9. FreeMarker Templates 10. Web Scripts 11. Working with Workflows 12. Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office 13. Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers 14. Building Alfresco Index

Managing categories


You have seen how to categorize a content item in Chapter 2 in Categorizing content. However, you might be wondering how to create those categories in your system. You can use Alfresco Administration Console to create, and manage the available categories for your enterprise content management. We will explore this in this recipe.

There are some default categories created in alfresco standard distribution. Categories, in Alfresco, are hierarchical—much similar to the real life categories. Let's consider taking an example of an existing category—Regions.

Note that not all the hierarchies are displayed in this diagram.

Six sample regions are created, and under each of these sub-regions are created. The next level contains countries within that region. This hierarchy can go on up to any level depicting the business scenario you are looking for.

Now, let's see how to create and edit these categories.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the Administration Console, click on Category Management...

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