I'm currently trying to migrate one of my customer's ECM system from FileNet to Alfresco.
Since they are using Filenet Image Services 4.0 SP4, I cannot take advantage of CMIS (only available from 4.5.x).
According to this blog in more or less similar conditions :
http://blog.tsgrp.com/2010/08/24/filenet-migration-findings/
http://blog.tsgrp.com/2010/02/09/migrating-from-filenet-to-documentum-could-openmigrate-possibly-do-that/
The best practice seems to be reading the database to find all documents (data + link to image) :
Does anyone know how to achieve that (retrieving the document from system tools) ?
Does anyone know how to read directly MSAR surface (.dat) files that already contains all information ?
I think the best practice is to use standard FileNet Image Services Resource Adapter (ISRA) if you can.
Product Documentation for FileNet Image Services Resource Adapter
For content migrations to Alfresco you can use migration-center. You can download a free evaluation copy of migration-center on http://www.migration-center.com/free-evaluation-copy/
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I am novices to the field of Identity and Access management.
Till now I know, Sail point has provided the some direct connectors to integrate the known systems like LDAP, HR systems, OIM, Databases..
And sailpoint also provided the support for disconnected applications with the use of Custom connectors.
Here, My question is how to develop a custom connector..?
I do not have jar file provided by sailpoint which contain "AbstractConnector" class.
So that I can write my own class and develop..?
I also so not understand, what to do with that class?(if i have a jar)
How sailpoint will refer to that class..
Do we need to deploy that class to somewhere...
Here I am expecting the complete flow to develop and deploy the custom connector..
If anyone is working please help..
If you unzip your identityiq.war, you'll find a JAR file called WEB-INF/lib/connector-bundle.jar. This is the JAR where you'll find AbstractConnector. Once you've written your connector code, you will need to compile it and bundle it into a JAR file, which you will place into WEB-INF/lib.
Finally, you will need to update the ConnectorRegistry object (under Configuration on the debug screen) to reference the new class, which will make it available as an Application type. If it has custom connection parameters (as most do), you will also need an xhtml page that will be embedded into the Sailpoint UI to prompt the user configuring the Application.
If you have Compass access, they have a whitepaper called Custom Connectors that you will find helpful.
All that said, I encourage you to try to find a way to use an out-of-box connector if possible.
Most of the times it will be better if you use the DelimitedFile connector, you can import a CSV of identity data, and make it work within Sailpoint's workflow. You will be able to map fields, correlate accounts and create multi-valued group memberships rapidly. Of course, this means that Sailpoint will not be connected directly to the application, and you will have to develop a workflow to extract the identities and upload them. But at least, you can integrate without going the Custom Connector way.
Currently i am generating a report (we are getting files are uploaded within a time stamp).
I am getting all files and folders.Iterating the result and checking created date one by one.That is taking too much time approx 8 min to revert with resuls.Can anyone tell me is there any alfresco report api that i can use? or using solr how to fetch the result?
I like to follow an approach which is maybe not really orthodox. Usually, you don't want to report on all documents, only document using a specific type or aspect. So, what I do is to create a Java behaviour on onCreate, onUpdate and onDelete that updates a custom database with only the metadata that I'm interested in. Then, I can connect any OOTB reporting tools such as Pentaho, Jasper or Tableau. You have of couse some other traditional alternatives, such as:
Using this module developed by a community member: http://fcorti.com/alfresco-audit-analysis-reporting/
Or using the module provided by Alfresco: http://docs.alfresco.com/analytics/concepts/analytics-using.html
SOLR/Lucene is not an option, querying DB directly is not an option either (performance wise).
I would suggest using one of the options available (AAAR for instance) or developing something on your own following the same principles.
I did little bit investigation on this and found below link.
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/audit-recording-values.html
I think you can user auditService in alfresco and get your things done.There are few alfresco webservices(related to audit) already available which will allow you to filter response.In case if you need to customize it , than you can create webscript and use auditService in it.
You can use below url for browsing all your alfresco webservice.
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index
I have following use case:
Existing scanner scans documents and stores them via WebDAV or a shared network drive to Alfresco
Documents are separated with a barcode to identify the customer and document type (e.g. bill)
If a document arrives in the shared drive, Alfresco should analyse it and move it (according customer and document type) to the suitable internal folder structure.
Example of a folder structure:
/scans/
/customers/ExampleCustomer1/bills
/customers/ExampleCustomer1/emails
/customers/ExampleCustomer1/hr
/customers/ExampleCustomer2/bills
/customers/ExampleCustomer2/emails
/customers/ExampleCustomer2/hr
Question:
What do I need in Alfresco to process step 3) to automatically recognize documents and file them?
P.s. I know there exists applications like Ephesoft/Kofax but I would like to have a module inside Alfresco which does the job for me without external dependencies.
I would suggest the following sequence:
1)Your scanner or other (OCR) software needs to interprete the barcode and save the customer and type somewhere in the document, for example in docx metadata.( I am not aware of an alfresco module doing ocr or barcode reading)
2)After upload via webdav, you have to run alfresco metadata extract action, which will have to extract the customer and type from the documents metadata into alfresco metadata by using an alfresco rule script or behaviour.
Using a rule, you can choose the action "extract common metadata fields"
Using a java behaviour, you can call the same action like this:
Action action = actionService.createAction("extract-metadata");
actionService.executeAction(action, node);
This extract action is described here : https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction . You may have to add custom code for your barcode requirement. (https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Transformation_and_Metadata_Extraction_with_Apache_Tika )
3)an alfresco rule script or behaviour is now able to move your document by reading this alfresco metadata property.
This is a very good howto about custom types and let me deep dive into Alfresco:
http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/content/tutorial/tutorial.html
Alfresco Developer Tutorials: http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series
I am looking at a URL that ends in .sdo, as in
http://somesite/somefolder/doc.sdo
I know that if you have an asp.net site the files will end in
http://somesite/somefolder/doc.aspx
I also know that oracle has something called "sdo" -- but I don't totally understand what it does.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15523_01/integration.1111/e10224/sca_sdo_ejb.htm#CCGHEBJF
What kind of platform supports sdo?
Check out this link - http://filext.com/file-extension/SDO
The SDO file type is primarily associated with 'DB/TextWorks' by Inmagic, Inc.. Inmagic TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO together provide a do-it-yourself customizable solution for information management.
.sdo is for DB/TextWorks (Database Deferred Update Directory)
We are using SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 in one of our project.
My question is, in CollabNet SFEE (SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4), how will we get attachments associated with an Artifacts Using SFEE SOAP API?
We have made our own .net 2.0 client. We are not using .net SDK provided by Collabnet,
If you commit with a message you can add "[artf1000]" (where artf1000 is your artifact number) to the beginning or end of your commit message. Then it will associate to that artifact you can also do this with documents using doc1000, to get the id of the item you can use the URL it is what is after the http://sfeeserver/sf/go/.
Documents and artifacts are the only item I have used this for so I am not sure about other types of links, but I would imagine anything that has a /go/ID could be referenced by the ID.
ie:
http://sfeeserver/sf/go/artf1000
http://sfeeserver/sf/go/doc1000
Edited to add:
I have seemingly successfully tried this with releases, tasks, and discussions as well.
You can cheat a little bit and have a look at the scripts from SFEE. Log into your SFEE via SSH and take a look at the following script:
/usr/local/sourceforge/sourceforge_home/integration/post-commit.py
Maybe it helps...