How does it work?

We have now seen how to set up and build the File Plan in Alfresco by nesting the Series, Category, and Folder containers. The File Plan page in the Records Management Share site is interesting to study in terms of understanding how it is constructed. It provides an excellent example for how pages can be built using the Spring-Surf web development framework.

How the File Plan page is set by the preset

As a first step, let's see how the File Plan page gets associated with the Records Management site. The File Plan page is automatically configured as part of the Records Management site when it is installed. But the File Plan page is a special one that is not available to be added to the configuration of standard Share sites.

We saw earlier how the Share Records Management site dashboard was configured with settings in the presets.xml file found in the tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-data\presets directory. The presets file also defines the default configuration...