In this chapter, we have seen how the Alfresco Records Management site functions within the Alfresco Share application. The Records Management site shares many of the same features as standard Share sites, and we have seen that it can be configured to include some of the same collaboration features used in other Share sites.

We have also seen one big way that the Records Management site differs from standard Share sites, and that is with the document library. Records Management extends the standard site document library to work as a Records Management File Plan. The File Plan is aware of specialized Records Management folder types. A companion Records Search page provides the capability of performing very detailed record searches.

In this chapter, we covered the following topics:

At the end of this chapter, in a 'How does it work?' section, we looked in detail at Share internals for the user and site dashboards. We discussed how dashlets are assigned to dashboards and where their configuration information is persisted in the Alfresco repository.

We now have Alfresco Records Management software up and running and a much better understanding of the Alfresco Share environment in which the Records Management site runs. In the next chapter, we will begin looking at metadata and the Alfresco content model, and specifically examine the content model used by Records Management and how it can be modified or extended.