Alfresco Best Practices tell us "Don't store more than 2000 nodes in a single folder". But in many use cases having thousands of nodes on one logical level is natural. Let's see why best practices tell us so, how to overcome it, limitations and benefits of the implementation.

1. Overcoming common
knowledge: 100k nodes
in a single folder
Oksana Kurysheva

2. Oksana Kurysheva
Project Manager at ITD Systems
Queen of the Bees at Order of the Bee
My cat writes JavaScript for Aikau

3. Learn. Connect. Collaborate.
Agenda
100k nodes in a single folder
• Business use cases
• Problem statement
• Possible solutions
• Demo

4. Use Cases

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Use Case #1. Collaborative Content

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Use Case #2. Transactional Content

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8. What is the problem?

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Problem Statement. Alfresco Best Practices
Luis Cabaceira
Solution Architect, Alfresco
Slide from BeeCon 2017

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Problem Statement. The reason

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Do we really need to hide the fact of document
existence from users?
• Alice thinks that there are 30 documents
• Mike thinks that there are 50 documents
• Administrator knows that there are 60 documents

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Do we really need to hide the fact of document
existence from users?
• Invoice #1
• Invoice #3
• Where is invoice #2? Can I create Invoice #4 or does it exist?

14. What can we do with it?

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Our approach
1. Do not hide existence of the node from the user

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Our approach
1. Do not hide existence of the node from the user
2. Apply search and sort at DB level, make them really fast

18. Learn. Connect. Collaborate.
Our approach
1. Do not hide existence of the node from the user
2. Apply search and sort at DB level, make them really fast
3. Load single page of data into RAM

19. Learn. Connect. Collaborate.
Our approach
1. Do not hide existence of the node from the user
2. Apply search and sort at DB level, make them really fast
3. Load single page of data into RAM
4. Process this page with permissions, custom logic etc

20. Learn. Connect. Collaborate.
Our approach
1. Do not hide existence of the node from the user
2. Apply search and sort at DB level, make them really fast
3. Load single page of data into RAM
4. Process this page with permissions, custom logic etc
5. Return the data to the browser

21. Learn. Connect. Collaborate.
Field-level security

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Hidden issues
• Search by sensitive data

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Hidden issues

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Hidden issues

25. Live Demo

26. Questions?
Thank you!
ok@itdhq.com
https://github.com/ITDSystems/alvex-registers