Using business rules on spaces

You can leverage Alfresco's rules engine to define business rules based on your requirements. You do not need any programming expertise in order to define and deploy a business rule. You can choose to use a business rule from an extensive list of built-in rules, or you can create your own business rules. Business rules can be applied to the entire content or a specific content within a space, based on the conditions that you set. This section will provide you with various real-life examples of business rules, as well as the steps to set and use business rules on spaces.

Organize documents automatically

In the previous chapter, you learned that you can upload many documents (via a bulk upload) from your local folder to an Alfresco repository. However, each time, you might end up manually moving them to specific spaces in order to organize them inside the repository.

Let us consider a sample scenario. Let us say your finance department receives thousands of documents...