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Reproduce IBM P8 Change Preprocessor in Alfresco

ptellier — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:34:48 GMT

We're migrating to Alfresco Community Edition from IBM P8 where we have Change Preprocessors that automatically update document properties when the document is ingested. For instance, newly added documents are given a custom ID.

What is the recommended way to reproduce this functionality in Alfresco? Do I want an out-of-process extension point: https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/latest/develop/oop-ext-points/events/?

Re: Reproduce IBM P8 Change Preprocessor in Alfresco

angelborroy — Thu, 23 May 2024 06:14:56 GMT

There are many different ways of doing that:

Folder rules (JavaScript API): https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/community/using/content/rules/
Custom behaviours (Maven SDK): https://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/behaviors/tutorial/tutorial.html
Listener (Out of Process SDK): https://github.com/aborroy/alfresco-genai/blob/main/alfresco-ai/alfresco-ai-listener/pom.xml

It depends on your use case and skills.