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Andrea Girardi
Andrea Girardi

Reputation: 4427

Alfresco as repository only: how to organize data?

I need to manage attachments on my Spring web application and I thought to use an open source repository. My app it's a job approval system using Java EE / SPRING 3 Framework and postgress DB to allow user to tracks the job, right through every step of the approval process. It is a fully managed, collaborative system that operates from a central server and is accessed by a standard internet browser.

I've a little bit of experience in Alfresco and I'm using it to store data into the repository and I've a doubt about the data organization into the repository. Have I to take care about the organization the data or just upload files into the repository when needed? For instance, I could create a new folder on repository for every request, is it a correct or no?

any suggestion will be really helpful!

thanks in advance, Andrea

Upvotes: 1

Views: 464

Answers (1)

skuro
skuro

Reputation: 13514

There's no extensive guideline on the repository structure. It really depends on the content you store and its lifecycle. There are countless concerns that might affect your design, for instance:

  • you need to configure rules to handle only some content items -> more folders needed

  • you need to configure a behavior to act on some of the content items (e.g. cmis:document to ws:asset in the Web QuickStart)

  • you store a gazillion content items -> you must use a balanced tree of folders to keep performance

  • you need to configure permissions on subsets of the content items -> easier to configure a folder and let documents inherit

Upvotes: 3

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