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With the release of Alfresco 5.1 we saw two main functions added to the system, the ability to create Content Models from within Share and Smart Folders.  Smart Folders are driven mainly by the use of metadata and searches so require Content Models (see our blog on Smart Folders).  This blog will look at how […]

With the release of Alfresco 5.1, Alfresco brought in the much awaited Smart Folders feature. A Smart Folder is a virtual folder which does not physically exist in the Alfresco Repository and whose content is dynamically populated based upon search queries run whenever it is accessed.   This allows us to show documents in multiple virtual […]

Alfresco User and Site Dashboard The alfresco user dashboard is the out of the box landing page when a user successfully logs in Alfresco Share and the alfresco site dashboard is default entry point in a Share site. Down the years working with alfresco, a few times we came across issues with user or site […]

On every project we are involved with there always comes a time to discuss the ontology required for the information and processes that are being managed. An ontology allows you to categorise your information based on the business realm it is relevant for. This enhances user productivity through accurate, metadata based content discovery and process […]

Alfresco Certificate Based SSO In the past few weeks, two of our customers requested us to implement a certificate based Single Sign On (SSO) for Alfresco. So we thought it would be good idea to write a blog about it. Before we get into details of setting certificate based SSO for Alfresco, let us have […]

Delete Alfresco Auditing Data Since we described the creation of a custom scheduled job that queries the alfresco audit service and reports on access for each share site in our previous blog, we thought it would be a good idea to share how to clear out the accumulated audit data after a predefined period of […]

Creating Site Access Reports from Audit In our previous blog we described how you enable auditing, create a custom Audit Application, create a custom data extractor and also how to check the custom audit application is working. In this blog we will describe the creation of a custom scheduled job that queries the audit service […]

Alfresco auditing and Site access reporting This blog discusses an approach to reporting on site access and activity.  We previously looked at using the AuditShare add-on, of which we have been quite impressed.  However we found that it did not perform well in an environment with thousands of users.  The solution we determined best matched […]

Alfresco Advanced Search forms and user selected Metadata values This blog is a reflection on Seed IMs experience with configuring Alfresco Advanced Search for custom metadata so that only the metadata items for which a user has selected values will be included in the search. The Alfresco Forms Framework allows you to configure search forms […]

List Constraint for a Repeating Metadata Field and Commas This blog is a reflection on Seed IMs experience with Alfresco when configuring a repeating (multiple) metadata field with a list of values that contain commas. In general it is possible to use Content Model Constraints to handle lists of acceptable values for a metadata field. […]