Jeff Potts' personal blog about Alfresco, content management, BPM, search, and other stuff
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7 comments
Albena Mincheva says:
Hello, Jeff! I’m, sorry to bother you, but I’m really having a hard time with this Alfresco issue and you are my hope to help me.I’m new to Bonita BPM and especially to Alfresco Community. What I’m trying to do is to create a process in Bonita BPM 7.4.1 that can upload a file in Alfresco repository and change the properties to that file with values I set in Bonita. I have created a process in Bonita, that is using a CMIS connector to upload the file and it is working perfectly. I also created my custom model and custom aspects in Alfresco and they are containing my specific metadata for my file. What my problem is how to send the values of these custom properties to Alfresco. I guess I have to use a Restful service, that can set them up, but I can not find any examples and I’m a little bit confused. I will greatly appreciate your help or any examples and tutorials.
Jeff Potts says:
I am confused. If you are using CMIS to upload the file, then you have already won the battle. Simply use CMIS to set the custom property values. Maybe have a look at the CMIS section of the content types tutorial.
Marco says:
Hi, sorry to bother you, there is a tutorial for the old version of alfresco 4.2.X? I found some pdf but i wonder if there is some link on this site to redirect to the hml version.
Ranjeet Kumar Singh says:
Hello Jeff,
Greetings!
Actually I would like to connect with you on some questions related to Alfresco and search system .
I am working on community version of alfresco and would like to leverage the elastic search ecosystem for search and analytics and not solr.
Can you please suggest me some urls – as i have gone through some blogs where you have mentioned about elastic search .
Also if you can provide me some github urls – for something to start on alfresco community and elastic search integration.
Thanks and Have a great day!
-Ranjeet Singh
Jeff Potts says:
You should probably take a look at the Apache Manifold CF project. It pumps data to and from repositories like Alfresco into search engines like SOLR and Elasticsearch: http://manifoldcf.apache.org/
Just to be clear, you cannot and should not replace SOLR with Elasticsearch. I am assuming you just want to stand up an additional search server based on Elasticsearch and use it to index Alfresco content and so on. If so, definitely take a look at Manifold. You can obviously also just write something like a Behavior to send data to the Elasticsearch cluster when nodes are created or updated if you decide to go your own route.
Miguel says:
Good morning
thank you very much for this site which gives a lot of information about Afresco. It’s only recently that I study alfresco. I’ve already read a lot from the documentation and I’m reading some of his tutorials. But I still do not understand what is meant by source and target in relationships. For example:
orrei understand in detail what he means when he writes
Someco Document
cm: content
Related Documents
false
true
sc: doc
false
true
what link is there between and target? (Edited)
I understood that relationships are typical of relationships in databases (0 …, 1 .. translated into false
true or true
true
thank you so much for every possible answer
Jeff Potts says:
Your XML was stripped when you posted your comment so it makes it difficult, but I will explain a bit about source and target and hopefully that will help.
An association links two objects. This relationship is directional. Suppose we have two objects object1 and object2. We could have an association called “Related Documents” that says that object1 has a related document called object2, or, graphically, object1 -> object2. In this relationship, object1 is the source and object2 is the target. We could also have an association going the other way. We could say that object2 has a related document, object1 (object2 -> object1). In this relationship, object2 is the source and object1 is the target.
When defining associations you can specify the required content type on either end of the association, whether or not an object is required to be on the end of the association, and how many objects can be on the end of an association.
Hello, Jeff! I’m, sorry to bother you, but I’m really having a hard time with this Alfresco issue and you are my hope to help me.I’m new to Bonita BPM and especially to Alfresco Community. What I’m trying to do is to create a process in Bonita BPM 7.4.1 that can upload a file in Alfresco repository and change the properties to that file with values I set in Bonita. I have created a process in Bonita, that is using a CMIS connector to upload the file and it is working perfectly. I also created my custom model and custom aspects in Alfresco and they are containing my specific metadata for my file. What my problem is how to send the values of these custom properties to Alfresco. I guess I have to use a Restful service, that can set them up, but I can not find any examples and I’m a little bit confused. I will greatly appreciate your help or any examples and tutorials.
I am confused. If you are using CMIS to upload the file, then you have already won the battle. Simply use CMIS to set the custom property values. Maybe have a look at the CMIS section of the content types tutorial.
Hi, sorry to bother you, there is a tutorial for the old version of alfresco 4.2.X? I found some pdf but i wonder if there is some link on this site to redirect to the hml version.
Hello Jeff,
Greetings!
Actually I would like to connect with you on some questions related to Alfresco and search system .
I am working on community version of alfresco and would like to leverage the elastic search ecosystem for search and analytics and not solr.
Can you please suggest me some urls – as i have gone through some blogs where you have mentioned about elastic search .
Also if you can provide me some github urls – for something to start on alfresco community and elastic search integration.
Thanks and Have a great day!
-Ranjeet Singh
You should probably take a look at the Apache Manifold CF project. It pumps data to and from repositories like Alfresco into search engines like SOLR and Elasticsearch: http://manifoldcf.apache.org/
Just to be clear, you cannot and should not replace SOLR with Elasticsearch. I am assuming you just want to stand up an additional search server based on Elasticsearch and use it to index Alfresco content and so on. If so, definitely take a look at Manifold. You can obviously also just write something like a Behavior to send data to the Elasticsearch cluster when nodes are created or updated if you decide to go your own route.
Good morning
thank you very much for this site which gives a lot of information about Afresco. It’s only recently that I study alfresco. I’ve already read a lot from the documentation and I’m reading some of his tutorials. But I still do not understand what is meant by source and target in relationships. For example:
orrei understand in detail what he means when he writes
Someco Document
cm: content
Related Documents
false
true
sc: doc
false
true
what link is there between and target? (Edited)
I understood that relationships are typical of relationships in databases (0 …, 1 .. translated into false
true or true
true
thank you so much for every possible answer
Your XML was stripped when you posted your comment so it makes it difficult, but I will explain a bit about source and target and hopefully that will help.
An association links two objects. This relationship is directional. Suppose we have two objects object1 and object2. We could have an association called “Related Documents” that says that object1 has a related document called object2, or, graphically, object1 -> object2. In this relationship, object1 is the source and object2 is the target. We could also have an association going the other way. We could say that object2 has a related document, object1 (object2 -> object1). In this relationship, object2 is the source and object1 is the target.
When defining associations you can specify the required content type on either end of the association, whether or not an object is required to be on the end of the association, and how many objects can be on the end of an association.