Using the Alfresco Node Browser

Alfresco Node Browser is one important and useful feature provided in the Web Client application.

Some of the valuable usages of this browser interface are:

• Not all the properties and attributes are visible in the Alfresco Web Client interfaces. Should you need to see all the properties of a content item or of a space, you can use this interface.

• You can perform custom search operations using this interface which is sometimes quite handy to investigate and debug the search queries.

• You can see the applicable permission set on a content item or on a space. This information is not always apparent in the Web Client.

• Many of the spaces are hidden in the Web Client; you can view the contents and other information from this interface.

• You can also see the hidden aspects applied to a content item and can view all the associations available.

Note

In Alfresco, all the content items and spaces are logically stored and architected as XML Nodes, in hierarchical structure. In...