Overview
Bizagi offers out-of-the-box support for integration with ECM systems.
Documents uploaded in a process activity are stored by default in a Bizagi cloud storage.
With ECM integration, you may define your corporate central document repository (ECM system) in Bizagi, so that the uploaded documents are directly stored there.
In execution, end users will only need to attach documents in Process instances in Bizagi, and these will be automatically sent to the ECM.
Possibilities in ECM integration are:
•Upload a document.
•Fill out or update its metadata.
•Check-out the document or undo its check-out.
•Check-in the document.
•Delete the document.
Prerequisites
For the ECM integration, it is required that the ECM system complies with the CMIS 1.0 standard (Content Management Interoperability Services).
This standard consists of a generic set of Web services that expose the capabilities of the ECM and handle metadata.
Web services supported in Bizagi's CMIS 1.0 support are those provided as SOAP standard.
Most major players in the ECM industry support the CMIS standard.
For more information about the CMIS standard and its services specification, refer to http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.0/cmis-spec-v1.0.html.
Bizagi can be easily integrated with those leading products in the market which support this standard, such as: SharePoint, Alfresco, Documentum, Filenet or DocuShare.
Once you make sure that your ECM system complies to the CMIS 1.0 standard (for a technical detail and further information on this standard, refer to CMIS compatibility and technical reference), what you will need in your ECM for Bizagi's use is:
•Having a folder in your ECM repository so that Bizagi can store documents in there (and having well-defined any relevant metadata).
•Having a service account to use for the connection in Bizagi which has proper rights in that folder (i.e read and write access).
What you need to do
Within the ECM integration, these steps are carried out:
1. Configuring the ECM
This step is done to make sure that your ECM system complies to and offers CMIS 1.0 Web services.
For more information about this, refer to Preconfiguring the ECM.
2. Setting the ECM in Bizagi
This step involves:
•Registering in Bizagi that ECM system.
This means specifying its URL location and specific repository (folder), and any additional information to connect to the ECM.
•Defining which File attributes in your Processes data model are to be stored directly in that ECM.
Within this definition, you will set the specific folder to which the uploaded documents will be stored.
•Considering in your user interface (activity forms), the appropriate control and configuration for the file attributes.
At this point, you may also define how will the metadata associated to that ECM repository.
For more information about this, refer to Setting the ECM in Bizagi.
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If you wish to view a CMIS compatibility sheet regarding Bizagi's capabilities, refer to the CMIS Compatibility and technical reference. |
Last Updated 2/7/2022 4:51:07 PM