topic Accessing document title, description and author name in Alfresco Archive

Accessing document title, description and author name

naresh — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:11:03 GMT

What is the best way to access a document's title, description and author name using the CMIS interface? (I am using OpenCMIS).For title, I would like a short phrase, e.g. "Introduction to CMIS". I was thinking of using cmis:name, but there seems to a minor glitch. When I upload a document to Alfres

Re: Accessing document title, description and author name

fmui — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:37:11 GMT

Hi Naresh,

Alfresco doesn't distinguish between cmis:name and cmis:contentStreamFileName. Internally it is the same property.
The description is a property at the cm:titled aspect. You need the Alfresco OpenCMIS Extension (http://apache-extras.org/p/alfresco-opencmis-extension) to access that.
The CMIS spec defines that the author name must the cmis:createdBy property value. cmis:createdBy, in turn, must unambiguously identify a user and therefore is the username and not the full name. There is currently no way to get the full name via CMIS.

Florian

Re: Accessing document title, description and author name

naresh — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:58:18 GMT

Thank you Florian - this is very useful. I will try out the Alfresco extension.

To clarify my understanding about the document metadata that can be entered from the "Full Metadata Edit Page":

Name: Is this always intended to be a filename? (and reflected in cmis:name and cmis:contentStreamFileName)

Title: available via cm:title property in aspect

Description: available via cm:description property in aspect

Mimetype: available via cmis:contentStreamMimeType

Author: available via cm:author property in aspect (this seems to contain the Full author name that I needed)