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Alfresco Integration with Chronoscan - ContCentric

Chronoscan Introduction: Chronoscan is a complete suite for document scanning and indexing. It allows to scan and index large sets of documents from SMEs to large enterprises. Alfresco: Alfresco is a web-based Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management platform which is adopted by the enterprises world-over to capture, store, manage, retrieve and publish the documents. We at ContCentric are expert in Alfresco with all the team members with Certification from the OEM. Integration Mechanism in Alfresco Alfresco allows third-party applications to communicate with it using CMIS (Content Management Interoperability System)/ RESTAPIs. Chronoscan uses CMIS to communicate with Alfresco. CMIS uses user’s credential in order to access the Alfresco repository. To know more about CMIS visit this. The use case in this blog: We have taken invoice as a document type to explain the scenario. Let us say we want to extract some information (like Vendor name, Invoice No, Total due amount, date) from the scanned invoices and retain them as metadata to respective documents. Once the batch of documents is ready we want to push (export) them to Alfresco repository at a specified path. So, Alfresco will have the documents with the metadata attached to it. The document library […]

Chronoscan is a complete suit for document scanning and indexing. It allows to scan and index large sets of documents from SMEs to large enterprises. ContCentric team have Certification from the OEM.

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Edit Documents Online (ONLYOFFICE Integration) - ContCentric

Alfresco, the leading open source technology serving plenitude of large enterprises, helping them to manage their large chunk of documents in a structured and easily accessible system. Being an open source technology, Alfresco has vast possibilities of customization within it. Thinking from the end-users’ angle gives birth to the idea of new customization. We, at ContCentric, are always eager to provide useful tools to bridge the requirement gaps. We have been providing such customizations to Alfresco fraternity across the globe since inception. Current Document Editing Feature: When it comes to editing text-based documents (MS Word files at large), Out-of-The-Box Alfresco ECM provides a facility to edit the document in two ways. Either go through ‘Edit Offline’ route to check-out the documents for offline editing on the local machine, or user the ‘Edit using Google Docs’ way. What’s New with Online Editor? We have come up with an alternative to this in which user doesn’t need to download the document or check-out to Google Docs. The module will enable users to edit the document online and after closing it, changes will be directly reflected the document as a new version! Sounds good? Read blog: Top 8 Reasons Why You Need Alfresco […]

Alfresco, the leading open source technology serving plenitude of large enterprises, helping them to manage their large chunk of documents in a structured and easily accessible system.

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Dynamic Workflow Creation in Alfresco - ContCentric

Alfresco – one of the most robust Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management systems have been used by a plenitude of enterprises over the years. List of features and add-ons available for Alfresco has been increased exponentially over the years. We, at ContCentric, have always been contributing the best content to the Alfresco Community in the utmost possible ways. Workflows are one of the most used functionalities of Alfresco. Almost every enterprise need workflow in their ECM System. Alfresco does provide few out-of-the-box workflows which are primitive and need manual actions in initiating the same. That is the reason why enterprises need to get the automated workflows developed by programming. Developing a workflow takes a certain time and, of course, the cost of Alfresco development resources need to be hired. With the help of our Alfresco Certified Developers, we, at ContCentric, have developed one such exceptional functionality which will allow the enterprises to assign the workflow to the documents dynamically. If our module is deployed in Alfresco, an authorized user-group can configure a linear workflow step on any folder. The reviewing and approving users are to be mapped in the order in which they want the document approval process […]

List of features and add-ons available for Alfresco has been increased exponentially over the years. We, at ContCentric, have always been contributing the best content to the Alfresco Community in the utmost possible ways.

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Create Folders and Sub-folders on Uploading a CSV File in Alfresco

A typical Document Management System use case in Alfresco would require creating multiple folders while implementing for the first time or any time in the future as well. Those folders can be for each employee, branch, or project in the organization. Creating them manually is a mundane, time-consuming, and prone-to-error task. How if you can create these folders with a mere upload of a CSV file? Sounds interesting?

In this blog, we have provided you a code using which Alfresco developers would be able to set a mechanism for the users who would get the following functionality.

Alfresco development related blog: Alfresco QCAD Integration for CAD Files Preview

Here are the steps to follow:

Step 1: For creating folders and sub-folders we need to write the script.

Step 2: Create a folder (Csv Upload) in your site and go to the action “Manage Rules”.

If you find any challenge in implementing the same, feel free to contact us.

Original source here: Create Folders and Sub-folders on Uploading a CSV File in Alfresco

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How to Add Barcode to Documents in Alfresco

When the world is heading towards digitization, a barcode is no longer a new term for the enterprises. Tracking and storing information about goods, from individual items to large stocks of millions of items, barcode has provided ease and relief to the system. Barcode allows you to accurately track large stocks and also look up any single piece of merchandise in a matter of second. There are many other cases where the barcode is applied to the documents. We, at ContCentric, have come up with the solution to add the barcode to the document stored in the Alfresco system.

Here is the technical approach on how to generate a barcode in Alfresco. If you want to explore the QR code, then please visit this link.

Java action – To allow users to generate and decide where to place barcode in the document Evaluator – To show action only on PDF documents (share side class) A Java PDF library (iText) – Provides classes and functions to edit PDF documents

Related blog: Step-by-Step Guide to Add QR Code to Document in Alfresco

1.Java Action 2.Evaluator 3. A Java PDF library (iText)

Original Source here: Here are some code available for How to Add Barcode to Documents in Alfresco

Feel free to contact us if there is any help you need while executing this code.

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Edit Documents Online (ONLYOFFICE Integration)

Alfresco, the leading open source technology serving plenitude of large enterprises, helping them to manage their large chunk of documents in a structured and easily accessible system. Being an open-source technology, Alfresco has vast possibilities of customization within it. Thinking from the end-users’ angle gives birth to the idea of new customization. We, at ContCentric, are always eager to provide useful tools to bridge the requirement gaps. We have been providing such customizations to the Alfresco fraternity across the globe since its inception.

Current Document Editing Feature:

When it comes to editing text-based documents (MS Word files at large), Out-of-The-Box Alfresco ECM provides a facility to edit the document in two ways. Either go through the ‘Edit Offline’ route to check-out the documents for offline editing on the local machine or use the ‘Edit using Google Docs’ way.

Related blog: Top 8 Reasons Why You Need Alfresco Document Management System

As you can see Version of the document is changed to 1.1 and edits are also reflected in the document.

If you want to enhance the user experience of your Alfresco DMS, please contact us for the demo and consulting!

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Dynamic Workflow Creation in Alfresco

Alfresco – one of the most robust Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management systems have been used by a plenitude of enterprises over the years. The list of features and add-ons available for Alfresco has been increased exponentially over the years. We, at ContCentric, have always been contributing the best content to the Alfresco Community in the utmost possible ways.

Workflows are one of the most used functionalities of Alfresco. Almost every enterprise needs workflow in their ECM System. Alfresco does provide few out-of-the-box workflows which are primitive and need manual actions in initiating the same. That is the reason why enterprises need to get the automated workflows developed by programming. Developing a workflow takes a certain time and, of course, the cost of Alfresco development resources need to be hired.

Read the blog for: Migrate Alfresco Content and Database from Community to Enterprise

Below are the steps mentioned to configure the dynamic workflows in Alfresco.

Step 1: Deploy the dynamic workflow module to your Alfresco. We would help you configure the sites or the folders which need to be added to this functionality.

If your business use-cases have multiple document types that have different workflows, this tool will allow you to configure as many dynamic workflows as you require across the departments.

Want to explore it? Please contact us! We will be glad to show this life.

Original source: Dynamic Workflow Creation in Alfresco

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Publishing Management Solution Using Enterprise Content Management Tools

In the fast-evolving digital age, the day to day activities of the publisher is surely beyond all orthodox processes. The publishing industry is heavily being disrupted by digital media and high user expectations. Technology has evolved beyond imagination in the last decade.

The increasingly digital channels have resulted in content publishing into multiple formats. There is now a demand for real-time, cross-platform content. Consumers expect content to be more engaging, personalized, and accessible than ever before. This necessitates modern content and process technology that is scalable, flexible, and easy to work with. All this should also be in sync with the authoring processes. Here are the highlights of publishing management software that can change the way.

Benefits:

The digital publishing software is beneficial for the business in many ways. Here are some of the important ones:

Increased quality through better authoring and proofing due to increased collaboration

Shortened time from idea to market resulting in more content-production than before

If you are a publishing house or a content publishing department of an organization, there are more benefits to reap from a Publishing Management Solution for sure. We would be glad to be approached to discuss the avenues of your benefit deriving from investing in a publishing solution!

You may also like to read a case study on how we streamlined the processes of an IT research organization to support their journal and market-analytics data publication.

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