Chapter 5. Implementing Document Management

This chapter introduces you to the basic features of creating and managing content in Alfresco by using Alfresco Explorer. With Alfresco, you can manage any type of document, such as HTML, text, XML, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Flash, scanned images, multimedia, and video files. You will also understand the concepts of creating and using categories and smart spaces. This chapter also focuses on the most important aspect of adopting a new Enterprise Content Management system, which is migrating the existing data and using it effectively. In this chapter, you will learn various secure ways of sharing your content online, by using syndication features.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:

• Create spaces and load them with documents

• Automatically control document versioning

• Lock, Check In, and Check Out documents

• Categorizing content so that you can facilitate searching

• Access documents in the Alfresco repository from your...