The Hyland Alfresco Content Services (ACS) content management system is a powerful solution for managing your company's content. However, to fully utilize the system's power, you must define and deploy a Content Model matching your domain (industry vertical).

This means you must create specific definitions for the types of content you are storing in the repository. The Alfresco Repository only comes out-of-the-box with very generic content types, such as content (i..e. document) and folder, which makes it hard to search for specific content files in your domain.

Let's say you work at a law firm. You might then want to include types such as client, case, legal document, task, etc. Each one of these types will have properties such as ID, case number, title, description, status (e.g., open, closed), related client(s), related lawyer(s), etc. These types and properties are defined in what's called a Content Model.

When you deploy a custom Content Model, such as a Legal Firm Content Model, you can search more specifically in the repository based on domain-specific types and properties. This way, everyone will find what they are looking for faster. It is also easier to implement business logic that will be invoked based on events related to a custom Content Model. For example, you could have code invoked when a new Legal Case is created in the repository.

This course is about creating custom Content Models for specific domains and configuring the UI to display them, both the Alfresco Share UI and the new Alfresco Digital Workspace (Content App) UI. Then use these content models to classify content.

“Hyland Alfresco Developer-Content Modelling & Classification” is an independently developed course by Martin Bergljung and has not been created, endorsed, or verified by Hyland Software, Inc.. Hyland Software, Inc. shall not have any liability with respect to the “Hyland Alfresco Developer-Content Modelling & Classification” course offered by Martin Bergljung.