Templated nodes in Alfresco 4

In the new Alfresco 4, you can now easily use document templates.
Templates are convenient for forms that employees must fill often, for instance.
Another example: here at Aegif we often write new contracts, always based on the same template.
In this article I explain how to create and use a template in Alfresco.

First log in Alfresco Share as admin, and click the repository icon:

Go to the "Data dictionary" folder, then "Node templates" folder, and upload your template:

That's all!
To use it, click "Create content..." then "By Templated Node...", and you can select a template:

The template is then copied to the current folder, and you just have to rename it.

More technical details:

• Can be used to easily create nodes with a custom content model.
• Convenient for nodes with a particular set of aspects and properties.
• Node templates must me created by an administrator (or someone who has access to the data dictionary), and are usable by everyone.
• I haven't tried but I guess you can use permissions to show a particular template only to a particular group of users.
• I will have to check whether associations are preserved or not.
• As I reported on JIRA, folder hierarchies can not be used as templated nodes yet.

Do you know any trick with templated nodes? Let us know in the comments :-)

Nicolas Raoul

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