Introduction to Alfresco Explorer

The Alfresco Enterprise Content Management product is bundled and shipped along with two web-based applications. One is called the Alfresco Explorer, which was formerly known as the "Web Client". In this chapter, we will go through a high-level overview of Alfresco Explorer. The other web-based application is called Alfresco Share, which enables collaboration. Chapter 10 of this book has a detailed description of Alfresco Share.

By using any web browser, you can connect to the Alfresco Explorer application. Using Alfresco Explorer, you will be able to manage users, security, content, business rules, and everything related to your enterprise content stored in Alfresco.

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In rest of this book, wherever the web-client configuration files are referred to, consider them as Alfresco Explorer related configuration files.

Log in to Alfresco as an Administrator

To begin, if Alfresco is installed by using the Tomcat bundle, then we can access the Alfresco Explorer...