Understanding possible actions of a rule
So now you have seen that Alfresco has provided a wide variety of options you can utilize as conditions of your rule. Similarly, many action options have also been offered—using these, you can implement most of your content management business scenarios and requirements.
In this recipe, we will understand some of the important actions offered by Alfresco Explorer.
How it works...
The following are the list of possible actions that can be performed while the rule execution. You can perform one or more of these actions in a rule.
Add an aspect: Use this action to add an existing aspect to the selected content items.
Add simple workflow: You can initiate a simple Approval/Rejection workflow on your content items using this. We will learn more about workflows in Chapter 11 in the recipe Invoking and using a Workflow.
Check in: This action checks in the corresponding document.
Check out: Used to automatically check out the document.
Copy: Copies a document to...
