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Version: Latest (4.61.0)

Alfresco source connector

The Alfresco connector consists of three flows which are described below. The first and third flow uses CMIS 1.1 which is supported by Alfresco 4.2 and higher, and the second flow uses REST API that is supported by Alfresco 5.2 and higher.

Flows​

Alfresco-source (1. Content)​

Supported Features​

  • Exporting users and groups
  • Exporting content structure
  • Exporting links
  • Downloading binaries
  • Exporting versions
  • Exporting access control lists

Features Currently Not Supported​

  • Relationships (linked objects)
  • Audit logs
  • Workflows
note

This connector does not calculate source.ancestors. If this accelerator is used with the Transformation Accelerator, be sure to run the Calculate Ancestors flow before transformation.

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.

pageSize​

Specifies the page size number that is used when paginating.

Example: 100

retrieveUsers​

Enables retrieving all users from the Alfresco repository. Can either be true or false. Users are retrieved from global repository, these are not tied to specific sites.

retrieveGroups​

Enables retrieving all groups from the Alfresco repository. Can either be true or false. Groups are retrieved from the global repository, these are not tied to specific sites.

retrieveVersions​

Enables retrieving all versions of an Alfresco document. When set to false only the current version is retrieved.

retrieveBinaries​

Enables downloading the binaries into the Content Store. Can either be true or false.

retrieveParents​

Enables retrieving all the locations of the Alfresco document. When set to false, only the last found location is stored.

retrieveACLs​

Enables retrieving all ACLs of an Alfresco object. Can either be true or false.

baseUrl​

The base URL to the Alfresco environment.

Example: http://alfresco.company.com:8080

alfrescoUsername​

The Alfresco CMIS API username. This user needs to have read-only access to all the contents that need to be read.

alfrescoPassword​

The Alfresco CMIS API password.

rootPaths​

A list of root paths.

Example: ["/sites/xill4|/sites/xill4-demo1/documentLibrary","/sites/xill4|/sites/xill4-demo2/documentLibrary"]

discardMetadata​

Cleans the source.properties object for all stored objects by removing default extracted metadata and unused properties.

Only a minimal set of metadata fields required by schemas and processing logic is retained.

Retained metadata per object type
Containers​

The default properties from the succinctProperties object in source.properties is reduced to:

["cmis:objectTypeId", "cmis:baseTypeId", "cm:title"]
Records​

The succinctProperties object in source.properties is reduced to:

["cmis:checkinComment", "cmis:objectTypeId", "cmis:baseTypeId", "cm:title", "cm:taggable", "cm:author"]

Specific for links, lnk:description and lnk:title are retained additionally.

principals​

No metadata properties are retained.

ACLs​

No metadata properties are retained.

All non-default (custom) metadata is retained.

apiUrl​

The API URL to the Alfresco environment. Default /alfresco/cmisbrowser

note

In some cases, the Alfresco connector might not work as expected and can cause 403 Not Authorized errors. To resolve this change this value to /alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/browser

Alfresco-source (2. Tags)​

Features​

  • Making HTTP request to get the name of the Alfresco tags (the Alfresco-source (1. Content) flow only gets the tag ids).
  • Storing the tag names in source.properties.alfresco.tagsInfo

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

baseUrl​

The base URL to the Alfresco environment.

Example: http://alfresco.company.com:8080

alfrescoUsername​

The Alfresco username. This user needs to have read-only access to all the contents that need to be read.

alfrescoPassword​

The Alfresco password.

pageSize​

Specifies the max items number per page that is used when paginating.

origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.

Alfresco-source (3. Content Types)​

Features​

  • Exports all content types including fields from an Alfresco repository. These types can be used when creating content in Alfresco.

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

baseUrl​

The base URL to the Alfresco environment.

Example: http://alfresco.company.com:8080

alfrescoUsername​

The Alfresco username. This user needs to have read-only access to all the contents that need to be read.

alfrescoPassword​

The Alfresco password.

pageSize​

Specifies the max items number per page that is used when paginating.

discardMetadata​

Cleans the source.properties object for all stored objects by removing default extracted metadata and unused properties.

Only a minimal set of metadata fields required by schemas and processing logic is retained.

Retained metadata​

The default properties from the succinctProperties object in source.properties is reduced to:

["parentId", "creatable", "fileable", "queryable", "propertyDefinitions"]

All non-default (custom) metadata is retained.

origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.