topic Re: Content Server Integration in Alfresco Archive

Content Server Integration

opentexter — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:22:15 GMT

Hi all,I'm looking to integrate Activiti with OpenText Content Server for attaching files to tasks (as references, but with the same behaviour as if the file was uploaded from the user PC). I understand this can be achieved by CMIS. However, I have been unable to find any useful documentation on how

Re: Content Server Integration

jbarrez — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:06:35 GMT

" I understand this can be achieved by CMIS"
Activiti has nothing CMIS like.

What you need is probably custom code, in which you expose a method that allows you to manage content for a certain task id. So this would effectively your own API, that calls the Activiti API afterwards.

Re: Content Server Integration

opentexter — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 08:11:24 GMT

Thank you for the detailed answer. I think I may be getting confused with CMIS support offered by the enterprise version?

One thing that I'm still not sure about, is that I've definitely read about the OpenCMIS libraries being used in relation to Activiti? Would this be a recommended solution to implement this?

Kind Regards,
Jack

Re: Content Server Integration

jbarrez — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:02:20 GMT

> I think I may be getting confused with CMIS support offered by the enterprise version?

That could indeed be. But afaik, there is no CMIS but Alfresco support in there.

> One thing that I'm still not sure about, is that I've definitely read about the OpenCMIS libraries being used in relation to Activiti?

Yes, you can use CMIS to retrieve/add documents to any CMIS-compliant document mgmt system. Activiti integrates with any java lib, so simply include the java lib on your classpath and you can get/set/metadatastuff documents from your processes.

Re: Content Server Integration

opentexter — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:20:25 GMT

Perfect, thank you very much!