topic Re: Querying user and group via CMIS in Alfresco Archive

Querying user and group via CMIS

marcus_svensson — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:44:06 GMT

As I understand it is currently impossible to query either user or group details via CMIS, only documents, folders, relationships and policys are available for querying. Is there any particular reason users and groups has been left out?

Re: Querying user and group via CMIS

fmui — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:05:28 GMT

The CMIS Technical Committee decided that user management is out of scope for CMIS. User management can be a really complicated and in most enterprise setups there is already an external user management system (as such a LDAP server) in place. Reinventing this in CMIS didn't seem to be necessary.

Florian

Re: Querying user and group via CMIS

marcus_svensson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:19:58 GMT

I can see why user management is out of scope, however both users and groups are realised in the datamodel in alfresco and can be used when setting up associations to content. Why I'm asking is beause we are currently developing an external application which communicate with Alfresco. In this application one example is that you should be able to see details about checked out files (not just your own) and then get the full name and certain contact details of a user, not just the username stored in the checkedOutBy attribute on the content. LDAP can in this case to populate the user data in Alfresco (including full name and email).

Another query I could think of is to query all files that are associated to a certain group. Yes this is doable by inventing a field in your datamodel holding the name of the group, but it would be more nice and clean using associations.