Comments on: New Tutorial: Getting Started with CMIS

By: SAlvador

SAlvador — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:05:07 +0000

No, I don’t have that type. I’ll get your blog code and give it a try. Thanks

By: jpotts

jpotts — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:52:56 +0000

That type, D:sc:whitepaper, is a custom type that does not come with Alfresco out-of-the-box. You have to deploy it as part of a custom content model. You can use your own custom types instead or use the “SomeCo” examples from my blog and/or book. Does your custom content model include a custom content type called sc:whitepaper?

Jeff

By: SAlvador

SAlvador — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:40:39 +0000

I’m trying to follow our tutorial but, when trying to create a document, with testCreateSampleA.atom.xml I get an error
Invalid typeId D:sc:whitepaper.

However, if I use cmis:document

then it works.

Can you explain that?

By: jpotts

jpotts — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:46:16 +0000

In a nutshell, you need to do single sign-on between Drupal and Alfresco to make this happen. So, instead of configuring CMIS to use a “system” ID to connect (like “admin” for Alfresco) you can configure it to get a session using the creds already in the Drupal header. Unfortunately, this isn’t a simple checkbox config. We may show this working at DrupalCon (no promises). Maybe we can post more details on it for those that can’t attend.

By: chrisw

chrisw — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:29:50 +0000

This CMIS has been good stuff to have found. Is there a trick to passing the Drupal user name to Alfresco to limit access to spaces?

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:00:09 +0000

Totally agree on the copy and paste comment. Yes, screwing up those namespaces can really foul things up. The snippet on page 25 is missing a trailing slash. Instead of: "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200908" It should read: "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200908/" The actual downloadable source code does not have this problem. Jeff

By: Igor Blanco

Igor Blanco — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:58:34 +0000

Jeff, thanks very much for (another) great tutorial.

Please correct the namespace errata in page 25. CMIS namespace is missing and ending /. I lost 2 days until I did find the error.

Definitively copy&paste is the worst enemy of the programmer.

By: Nikesh

Nikesh — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:18:30 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I have created Axis2 client and able to access different CMIS services (Alfresco).

I want execute different features like createDocument, createFolder etc.

Can you guide me how to set properties using web service client?

I have generated stub classes using Axis2 ADB option.

By: jpotts

jpotts — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:32:26 +0000

From page 475 of the Alfresco Developer Guide…

Category searches use the PATH field, but you construct a path using the classification hierarchy. Suppose that sample-a.pdf is classified under “Languages/German”, and sample-b.pdf is classified under “Languages/German/Swiss-German”. Now consider the following two searches:
PATH:”/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable/cm:Languages/cm:German/*”
PATH:”/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable/cm:Languages/cm:German//*”
The first search will return sample-a.pdf because it is classified as “German” and the “Swiss-German” category. sample-b.pdf won’t be returned because sample-b.pdf is under a subcategory, “Swiss-German”. The second search uses double slashes (“//”) at the end to denote that matches should include “German” as well as anything classified under a subcategory. It returns both documents and the “Swiss-German” subcategory.
So the category searches, as shown above, will return both objects that have been categorized (“members”) and also the category nodes. If what you want are only documents and not categories, you can use “member” as follows:
PATH:”/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable/cm:Languages/cm:German/member”
PATH:”/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable/cm:Languages/cm:German//member”
The first search would return only sample-a.pdf, while the second search would return sample-a.pdf and sample-b.pdf.

A handy little hack to get the Lucene full-text search query syntax is to use the web client to build your search, then save the search, then use the Node Browser to go look at the search string Alfresco saved.

[UPDATE: I just realized you posted this comment regarding the CMIS tutorial so this answer isn't going to help you at all. CMIS queries don't support categories, so, unfortunately, if you're using CMIS, you're out-of-luck for now].

Hope that helps,

Jeff

By: Noel Sharpe

Noel Sharpe — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:40:59 +0000

Thanks for the Tutorial Jeff. One aspect i am struggling to get working is querying against categories. How do I do this?