In this tutorial you will learn how to create custom models and implement content modeling using the Model Manager.
You will perform a step-by-step walk-through of creating and using models, custom types, aspects, and their properties in Alfresco Share.
In this tutorial we assume that Content Services is implemented in a fictitious company called DemoCo as their ECM solution for managing content on their new website. DemoCo wants to add new types of content (for example, white papers) to their website and track metadata for all their files in the repository.
For this purpose, DemoCo needs to create a new model, Document with a custom type called whitePaper. If a document is a white paper, then DemoCo would want to capture its writer’s name and domain area. Also, for each document, DemoCo wants to determine if the content needs to be shown on their website. If yes, there should be a flag to indicates that the content is active and the date when the content was set to active.
So, let’s start by creating a new model called Document. It has a custom type - whitePaper with properties writer and domain. The model has an aspect - Webable with properties published and isActive.