CMIS and WCM

[romschn]

Hello,

Does anyone have any working examples for fetching content from WCM AVM store using CMIS?

Thanks,

[bremmington]

The CMIS interface sits on top of the core Alfresco store (the "DM" store), so nodes in the AVM store are not accessible with it. Web Quick Start is a WCM solution built on top of the DM store, and makes use of the CMIS interface to fetch content from the repository.

[romschn]

Thank you for the answer.

Just for the curosity,I want to understand, why CMIS interface does not support fetching the contents from AVM store in WCM repository?

Thanks,

[mrogers]

It just comes down to priorities and what makes sense.    A lot of the AVM concepts such as layering and snapshous do not lend themselves to CMIS.   What we built instead is the ability to deploy to the "alfresco" target and then your WCM content is available via CMIS.

[dietric]

Would you mind elaborating a little bit about "ability to deploy to the "alfresco" target " and what the best practices would be for doing that?

[mrogers]

There's a WCM deployment target called "alfresco" that you can deploy to.   You can then use CMIS against that content which would be used as your "live store".

I'm not sure what you are looking for with "best practices".

[dietric]

That makes sense, thanks so much. If I want to synch both ways, is there a way to post changes back to Alfresco thru CMIS and have them trigger a workflow in WCM again?

Dietrich

[mrogers]

Not that I can think of.    Alfresco WCM is an "authoring" environment so does it make sense to pull back UGC into the authoring environment?   Probably not.

At some point we will get around to implementing "pull" for the transfer service (at the moment its just push)  especially for the UGC use-case.   Its on the backlog.

[dietric]

The reason I am asking is because we are using Drupal as the web presentation layer, and we would rather not have to train the web editors in using two different platforms, so being able to push content edited in Drupal back into the workflow would be ideal.

[mrogers]

If your content is in the "DM" store then all the "content management" services including workflow will work on it,  however not  "WCM workflows" which are specially adapted to work with AVM web projects.

Do you have separate "authoring" and "live" instances of Alfresco?