Alfresco-Drupal Integration via CMIS (Screencast)
In this screencast, Jeff Potts shows the current state of Drupal-Alfresco integration via CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services standard.
Using the CMIS and CMIS Alfresco modules Optaros recently contributed (based on joint development effort between Optaros, Acquia, and Alfresco), he demonstrates:
- HTML content created in Alfresco being “pushed” to Drupal and converted to a standard Drupal node, where it can be affected by any of the existing Drupal modules like 5-star rating or comments.
- Content created in Drupal being “pushed” back to Alfresco, where it could trigger a workflow, archiving, or any other Alfresco action
- The ability to browse and query, from within the Drupal interface, CMIS repositories, including standard keyword search as well as CMIS queries.
Although this demo is specific to Alfresco and Drupal, the CMIS module itself is designed to facilitate integration of other repositories as they become CMIS compliant.
(You should also check out Jeff’s post on CMIS, ECM Interoperability, and Services-Oriented Content Management for a sense of how we see this particular set of modules fitting into a larger strategic approach).
Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, CMIS, CMS, Content Management Interoperability Services, Demo, Document Management, Drupal, Files, Integration, Jeff Potts, optaros, Screencast, Standards, Web CMS
April 7th, 2009 at 10:42 am
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April 7th, 2009 at 11:08 am
[...] created a new screencast that shows the Alfresco-Drupal CMIS integration in action over at Optaros Labs. The screencast shows content moving back-and-forth between Alfresco and [...]
April 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am
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great demo I saw at #AIIIM09: RT @optaros:Alfresco-Drupal Integration via CMIS (Screencast) – [link to post]
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April 9th, 2009 at 7:22 am
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April 20th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Hi,
A stable and functional alternative:
http://drupal.org/project/alfresco
Regards,
April 20th, 2009 at 8:47 am
@Manuel,
Yes, there is another Alfresco-related module for Drupal. The one you are linking to uses Alfresco’s API directly. I believe it also uses Alfresco-specific node types on the Drupal side. Neither of those may be a limitation to you depending on what you are doing–I’m just pointing out a couple of the differences.
We thought it was important to use the CMIS interface because it opens up the option of connecting to more than one back-end with the same CMIS API.
Jeff
April 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
[...] I’ll be speaking during the Barcamp on Alfresco and Drupal integration with CMIS (module, screencast). I’ll also have the Alfresco-Django integration running on my laptop. I may not have time to [...]
May 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
[...] did the Alfresco-Drupal CMIS integration demo (screencast) which seemed to go over well. Most people in the room acknowledged that they have more than one [...]
May 8th, 2009 at 10:01 am
[...] El pasado 29 de Abril tuvo lugar en Chicago el evento “Alfresco Chicago Meetup” donde estuvieron hablando por parte de Alfresco Matt Asay y Michael Uzquizano también se vieron algunos casos de estudio por parte de Ed Wentworth (Orbitz) y trataron temas como la integración entre Alfresco y Drupal con soporte CMIS. [...]
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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RT @jeromemay: Drupal + Alfresco = Intranet Flexibility – http://bit.ly/NDQVG See CMIS integration[link to post] by Jeff Potts
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November 16th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Muy ineteresante, ya conoicía uno de los módulos alternativos pero creo que la integración mediante CMIS es bastante interesante apra su independencia del Gestor documental empleado.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Hi Jeff,
I recently attended a webinar about this project and got very excited as I am working on a new intranet platform to replace our current ‘way too bulky, complicated and expensive’ ECM platform. I have installed Drupal and Alfresco successfully and added the CMIS and CMIS Alfresco modules. My problem is where to go from here…I have found plenty of demos showing what can be done but no tutorials out there for the intermediate developers out there (like me). The available documentation is way over my head at this point, and I cannot find any simple ‘getting started’ documentation. Is there somewhere you could point me that could get me up and running? My colleagues are thrilled at the idea that more people in our (quite large) organization could maintain content without knowing HTML or touching the Drupal site, and far be it from me to let them down. This integration would take a dramatic load of document and web site maintenance off our small web team’s plates but I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment just getting set up. Any advice or links would be vastly appreciated!
Thanks!
March 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am
@Vincent: I have the same problem too!
To achieve the same result as shown by Jeff this module need to be packed as a feature. Has anyone made this?
Thanks
Alex