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What is different between Aspect and Associations in context of Content Model?


I am very new to Alfresco and trying to understand the Content Model from here. I am trying to find the answer of following question, but not getting.

What is different between Aspect and Associations in context of Content Model?


Solution

  • It is quite easy actually:

    • An aspect is simply a collection of properties that can optionally get added to a content of a specific type. (ie: an aspect called webable for content that can be published to the web, with one single property indicating if it is already published true/false and one other with the date of last publication)

    • An association is a link or a relationship between two content types (ie: link a generated pdf file to the original docx file/template)