Custom associations

You can associate content within Alfresco repository with one or more content items. An association enables content to be related to other content.

Alfresco supports two types of associations. The first type is reference association where you refer other content items within a content item. For example you can associate a legal agreement document with master contract document. Hence you can refer to the associated master contract document, whenever you review the legal agreement. In reference association if you delete one of the documents, the other document will not be deleted.

The second type of association is child association where content (such as space) contains other content items. The child association is employed when the child of the association should not exist when the source goes away. It is a similar concept of cascaded delete in relational database or deleting a folder in Microsoft Windows Explorer. If you delete the parent then all their children that have...