Built-in business rules
You can leverage the built-in business rules by applying them on appropriate spaces. You have already used some of them in the previous sections. This section will provide you with complete information about built-in business rules and the Alfresco rules wizard.
How these business rules work
Alfresco's underlying framework supports the latest technology, which is called Aspect-Oriented Programming. This is useful for changing the behavior of the server dynamically, without making changes to the code. Business rules leverage this technology so that you can define them on any space in Alfresco, and change the behavior of the system.
The Alfresco server follows a process to execute business rules.
Whenever a document is added to the space (Inbound) or removed from a space (Outbound) or updated within a space (Update), the Alfresco server checks whether that space or its parent spaces have any business rules to execute, based on the triggering event type (Inbound, Outbound...
