Ephesoft - Alfresco Integration

                    Alfresco Ephesoft Integration

There are many pages on the internet which speak about Alfresco-Ephesoft Integration. Though I had good experience on Alfresco, without any hands-on on Ephesoft, I started looking at ways I can integrate Ephesoft and Alfresco.

If you are new to Ephesoft just like me and like to integrate them, you have landed on the right article.

Before we begin, let me make it clear for you that these two software’s need not be on the same machine to work. In my case, I had Alfresco installed locally where as I had Ephesoft on Amazon AWS.

Now that you want to integrate them, the main purpose would be that you want Ephesoft to pick the document that you have just uploaded into a folder in Alfresco and start processing. For this to happen, you must first configure the CMIS Import on a batch class in Ephesoft. And most importantly, even before you do that, you must first enable CMIS Plugin in Ephesoft. Below are the details.

CMIS Import

To import files from Alfresco into Ephesoft, we must

• Enable CMIS Plugin

For enabling/disabling CMIS import functionality please uncomment/comment the following line at {Application}\applicationContext.xml in Ephesoft installation folder. <import resource=”classpath:/META-INF/applicationContext-dcma-cmis-import.xml” /> Default: CMIS import is disabled.

•       Restart Ephesoft Server.
•       Configure the CMIS Import plugin in Batch Class as below

Server URL: http://xxx.xx.xxx.xx:8091/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.0/atom User Name: admin Password: admin Repository ID: -default- Folder: toephesoft (This folder must be PRE-created under Repository Folder in Alfresco) Property: cm:title (When a document with this title is identified, it is then changed to xxxx as                                        mentioned below and process will be started. ) New Value: Value to which property needs to be changed to. In my example, I had tobeprocessed                       as Property and Processing as New Value CMIS Version: In my case it was 1.0. Enable: THIS CHECK BOX MUST BE CHECKED

•       Now click on Apply, Test the connection and Deploy.

You should now notice that when ever a file is placed in toephesoft folder, it was picked up automatically. You can verify this by looking at the title of the file. 

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      Note: After uploading the file, I manually changed the title of the file to tobeprocessed. That's when the file was picked up.  

CMIS Export

Under Batch Class, Modules, Select CMIS_Export

Please look at the below screenshot and configure accordingly. 

***** Most important this here is that the CMIS Server Switch must be turned ON. By default it was off in my case.

*** CMIS Root Folder should also be pre created under Repository folder.

** CMIS VERSION Must be mentioned correctly.
* Client Key and Secret were the default values that were there which I have used.