In Alfresco Share you may want to set the document type already on file upload. Else there will be a 2-step process by first uploading, and then select Change Type.
This is possible, but requires a small code change. Most is already done by the Alfresco developers, so you should be able to quickly make the [...]
The current version of Alfesco Share lacks an advanced search for your custom metadata. It is not Alfresco and Lucene that doesn’t have this capability, what is missing is an implementation of advanced search. According to Alfresco roadmap we will have to wait until end of 2010 before we get this as a standard functionality, [...]