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Bootstrapping Rules to Existing Folders in Alfresco

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Overview There are times when we need to bootstrap one or more rules to a site that already exists.  Perhaps you need to add a rule to sites folder to handle applying a site template to a site, need to add new rules to the Unfiled folder in a Records Management site, or you simply need to add a new rule to an existing site. In this case you can't simply upload an ACP file as the folder already exists.  Rather we just need to bootstrap the rules to the folder in question.  In the example I am going through I am assuming the folder in question already has one or more rules attached to it.  If in your example it doesn't then you will need to create the rule folder (I'll highlight below how you would do that). My example in this case is going to be to add a new rule to the Unfiled folder of the Records Management site.  For those who haven't worked with Records Management (RM) in Alfresco you are only allowed one RM site per Alfresco cluster.  This RM site would need