Custom Records Management metadata

We've seen with the Custom Metadata tool that it is possible to add user-defined metadata properties for record objects. In Chapter 4, we looked at the content model and saw how properties can be defined by and associated with aspects and types.

You may wonder how Alfresco manages to keep track of these custom metadata definitions. In the same way that the script files can be stored in the repository and activated immediately after editing the script, the custom metadata definitions are also stored in the repository.

The node reference value for the Custom Metadata definitions is workspace://SpacesStore/records_management_custom_model. By using the Node Browser in the JSF Explorer client, we can look up this definition file:

From the Primary Path information displayed in the Node Browser, we see that the location for this file is Company Home/Data Dictionary/Records Management/recordsCustomModel.xml.

The content of this file follows the standard format for...