Is Alfesco adapted to do physical document tracking?

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riogrande

Hi all,

All is said in the title, I know that the question seems bizarre, but the idea would be to allow societies that have an enormous quantity of document to track these archives (to know where this document is, who borrow it, …).

Is it possible in Alfresco, or is it not adapted (no electronic documents)? Is it better to develop a dedicated solution?

Thanks

mrogers

Its not a primary use-case.   

But you can use content modeling to store the equivalent of a library's index card, check out tickets etc.   Store synopses of the resources?   Store the cover image?   And then use the query engine to find documents, look up who has what etc.    You could use workflows to check out, check in and register new content.   You could use WCM to manage your development of a web solution.

Alfresco may help you on your way to building a system.