Understanding the components of a rule
In today’s business, a content management system is not only supposed to manage files, provide document management capabilities, and so on. An enterprise content management system should also manage all the business processes around the enterprise’s content.
Rules can be used to implement such Business Requirements, Business Rules, and Scenarios in the whole content management endeavor of your enterprise.
You can leverage Alfresco’s powerful and flexible rules engine for performing several business operations automatically every time an event transpires.
How to do it...
For example, your organization may want to send notification mails to a group of people whenever somebody uploads a new document or somebody updates an existing document on a particular space; or you may want to assign a review and approve task someone when a document is uploaded in a space. You may also want to send the notification mail only for PDF documents, but not for MS Word documents...
