ECM :- Organizations around the world use different types of ECM solutions such as IBM FileNet and rely on WebSphere Portal to aggregate content and applications from different sources. In this section we outline an overview of how third party ECM systems can be integrated with WCM.
It is common for third party ECM software to provide standard JSR168 or JSR286 portlets that can be used within the WebSphere Portal environment.This pattern should be considered an entry point to ECM integration because it lacks many features such as search, authorization or personalization integration that can be achieved using richer integration capabilities that we will describe later in this article.
IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager integration :-
WCM provides a functionality called "federated documents support" that empowers authors to reuse assets located in ECM systems by linking them from rich text or HTML items or by displaying them in a live feed rendered through a personalization component.
Federated documents are documents that are referenced in WCM but really "live" in another system such as FileNet, Content Manager or Quickr.
To simplify the creation of federated documents rules and links, WCM provides an user friendly dialog box called "Document Picker". The Document Picker makes it easy for content authors to browse an external repository and select the document that they want to link.
For authentication, Document Picker can reuse the SSO mechanisms configured between WCM and the ECM system or allow the authors to enter a different user and password to access the repository.
Access to ECM systems is achieved through the Portal AJAX proxy, so it's important to create the right policies to ensure connectivity between them Link to instructionsexternal link
Access to ECM systems may require the deployment of additional software capabilities in the source system such as the Quickr REST services for FileNet.
Integrating ECM via Web Content Integrator:-
Web Content Integrator (WCI) is a Portal module that allows rich integration with third party ECMs or other information sources, making use of the key WebSphere Portal capabilities such as search, security and personalized content delivery.
WCI allows content created in third party ECM systems to be published in WCM by using RSS/ATOM feeds that store the META data and data in WCM and adhere to the IBM WCI specification.
IBM WCI can be easily understood by describing the various entities involved:
Feed Producer: This is a custom application built at the third party ECM level that uses the IBM WCI specification to produce the RSS/ATOM feed.
RSS/ATOM Feed: This is the RSS/ATOM Feed that is generated by the third party ECM custom application which contains the META data and data required by WCM.
WCI: IBM WCI is a Portal component that consumes the RSS/ATOM feed and uses the META data information from the feed to create new, update existing or delete WCM content.
WCI feeds :-
Basically, to work with WCI, you must:
Create a feed on your source system using the WCI feed-format specification.
Configure WebSphere Portal to consume the feed.
As stated above, the input to the WCI is a content feed that complies with the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 format. RSS is an XML-based format that is widely used for syndicating content from sources. The core feed format is relatively simple, with only a limited number of elements to be specified for each item in the feed.
The RSS 2.0 specification allows the base format to be extended by use of XML namespaces to support additional functionality. To enable a deeper level of control over how items are created in Web Content Management, an RSS extension has been defined that contains elements that map to many of the attributes of the Web Content Management object model:
- Process control elements
- Location control elements
- Identity control elements
- Profile control elements
- Authoring template element
- Element control element
- Workflow control elements
- Security control elements
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