Introduction

Alfred Inflow is used to upload files and their metadata to Alfresco. How files and their metadata are delivered, depends on the scenario and the options are limitless.
To be able to support these limitless input formats, Alfred Inflow allows extensions points that are called ‘metadata actions’. These metadata actions are Java classes that process incoming sets of files into files with metadata that will be stored in Alfresco.

This guide will cover the principles of a metadata action based on a basic example.