One of the key tasks in any organizational business process is to organize documents to accomplish work processes. These processes may require a review of topical documents for researching, historical documents for an audit, a collection of current related documents to use in underwriting a policy or adjudicating a claim, or other specific documents to answer an inquiry.
The foldering patterns provide solutions to specific architectural problems in organizing documents.
| Foldering Overview | Glossary, item naming |
| Hierarchical Static Foldering | Storing items in a pre-built (static) hierarchical folder structure. |
| Hierarchical Dynamic Foldering | Preparing a dynamically-built hierarchical folder structure from linearly stored items. |
| Single Parent Foldering | Organizing items so that each item has only one parent folder. |
| Multiple Parent Foldering | Organizing items so that each item may be in one or more parent folders |
| Query Result Foldering | Preparing a folder structure from the results of an item query. |
| Folder Versioning | Creating specific versions of a folder with each content item of its own specific version. |
| Relational Foldering | Defining folder contents by rows in a relational table. |
| Blob Foldering | Defining folder contents by entries in a data structure which is stored on a file system. |
| Transaction Work Folders | Folders created to hold items related to a particular work transaction, such as a claim or policy endorsement. These contain transaction data in additional to contents. |
| Item Attributes | Data attributes associated with a folder for retrieval, searching, and application processing purposes. |
| Folder Contents | Documents and other folders contained within a folder. |
| Folder Entry Attributes | Data attributes associated with a folder entry (edge data), used for Divided Folders, Content Sequencing, and Folder Table of Contents. |
| Divided (Tabbed) Folders | Organizing folder contents into named dividers (also called tabs). |
| Content sequencing (various) | Retrieving folder contents in a predefined sequence, such as time of insertion. |
| Folder Table of Contents | Additional data about contents, such as name of user inserting item. |
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