Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Bulk Injection
TweetThe most used bulk injection tools are High Performance Image Import (HPII) Infosphere Content Collector (ICC) HPII is mostly used for injection in Image Service. This was most popular injection before 4.0 release. ICC is the latest 4.5 tools and injects the document directly in Content engine. It targets all important IBM repository i.e. IBM P8, IBM [...]
Roles
TweetRoles in p8 are configured differently in different engine Content Engine No concept of role. LDAP group are treated as roles. This is major feature missing. However adding LDAP group solves most of the roles requirement. This adds lots of LDAP group maintainance outside P8 adminstration. Process Engine Login and query use the same CE [...]
Designing Data Model
TweetContent Engine is object oriented database. It stores the information of the metadata in RDMS. RDMS mostly used in industry are SQL Server, Oracle and Db2. Data model in p8 classes and properties refers same as table and columns in RDMS. Make sure you create sub class of default high level class. e.g. create a [...]
4.5.1
Tweetp8 4.5.1 is more stable and latest patch available. This patch is not as big as moving from 3.5 to 4.5. There is nothing much related to common OOTB functionality changes. If you are using PA then this patch allows adding attributes in fact table. This is useful for BI reporting to have attibute in [...]
Component Integrator
TweetComponent Integrator is event based adaptor that can be used to write custom code or call external services within a workflow. Java Adaptor and JMS adaptor can be used to write custom code. Java Adaptor is most famous and used most of the custom worklow solution. Java Adaptor is run behind in PE server in [...]
Google FileNet Connector
TweetGoogle Software Appliance has connector for IBM P8 repository. This connector gets the feed from the FileNet repository. This can be useful integration for intranet search. Google provides the appliance and software as solution with 2-3 years of contract. However if you want to take action on search result like creating version then this might [...]
P8 WAT
TweetWAT – web application toolkit is MVC framework provided by FileNet to build UI. WAT is based on xml/xsl rendering and based on event based UI model. Workplace is developed based on WAT framework. Custom UI can be developed using this framework. 4.5 onward source code of workplace is not shipped with the product. Can [...]
Process Analyzer
TweetThis is BI tool available OOTB. 4.5 PA ETL process pulls the BPM events from the PE engine to Process Analyzer database. Dimensions and measures can be added based on the exposed fields in PE. Pre-configured excel BI reports available and be updated on need basis. Share on Facebook Send article as PDF
Records Manager
TweetRecords Manager is Add-On product on p8. It is US DoD certified and UK PRO complaint product. It provides a very rich file plan to declare document as record. Record object store is usually created separately from document object store. Record are pointers to document. Once a document is declared as record security of the [...]
