Using business rules on spaces

You can leverage Alfresco's rules engine to define and deploy business rules based on your business needs, which does not require any programming expertise. You can choose to use a business rule from built-in rules or create your custom one. Business rules can be applied to the entire content or a specific content within a space, based on the conditions used in configuration. This section explains how a real-time business requirement can be achieved with business rules and the steps for business rule configuration.

Organizing documents automatically

In the previous chapter, we have learned to upload many documents (bulk upload) from your local folder to an Alfresco repository. However, each time we end up manually moving them to specific spaces to organize them inside the repository.

Let us consider a business scenario, where your finance department receives thousands of documents every day in an electronic format from various customers, vendors, and internal...