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we've got to implement a document repository with Alfresco and is required that links to external documents (they could be an Url or a network uri like \SERVER\doc.pdf) should be available as regular alfresco-stored documents (tag, categorize and comment them).

I'm wondering whether it's possible to do that with Alfresco or we are going to develop that functionality ourselves.

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  • Can you store them as Links? Links can be tagged, categorised etc – Gagravarr Jul 23 '14 at 13:32
  • Actually, we need them to be displayed as documents, I mean like the library for the UI experience, that's I'm looking for anything else than Links. Tks! – Matías Kusack Jul 23 '14 at 14:18
  • You would have to develope your own functionality in that case because out of box no features avilable which you could use to achive that. – mitpatoliya Jul 24 '14 at 03:52
  • It would be *a lot* of work to implement a customisation for this in Alfresco. Thumbnails, previews, indexing etc all rely on a physical document being present in the contentstore. You're much better off ingesting the document. – Mardoz Jul 25 '14 at 09:00

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You should be able to achieve this with Alfresco Bulk File System Import, which will allow you to load all the files from where they reside, into the Alfresco content store. In addition to that, you can use the Alfresco Content Stores to manage multiple content stores within Alfresco.

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  • Links can be helpful as supplemental information, but [link-only answers are strongly discouraged](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/8259/228805). Please include a summary of the linked information that's relevant to the question, and explain how it resolves the issue. – Adi Inbar Jul 23 '14 at 19:25
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You can create a simple HTML document with a javascript redirect inside like this:

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
window.location.replace("http://stackoverflow.com");
// ]]></script>

Save it as something.html and upload in Alfresco.

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