cmisRoot

Use this configuration setting to configure the folder that will be the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) root folder for users and applications to start browsing the CMIS repository. You configure the CMIS root to mount and link directly any folder path by using the flexible library-based mounting mechanism. You can configure to map directly to:

• Single existing folder
• Query by mapping to a search folder
• IBM Content Manager 8.4.3 root
• Multiple mount points controlled by access control and organized under a single CMIS root.

You must use the flexible library-based mounting mechanism to mount almost anything that you want. You mount folders by creating a library which maps to a new folder, existing folder, or a search folder. The libraries are organized into library groups. The library groups and the libraries are displayed as the first two levels of special folders under the root and are read only. Users can create, modify, and delete folders and documents within libraries or folders within libraries. The library groups and the libraries are displayed or hidden from the users based on the access control list assigned to each library or library group. You can hide the groups by creating all libraries in one library group and then map the CMIS root directly to the single library group. Bypassing the library groups results in a single level of special folders only that is read only. Use the LibraryCreate tool to create libraries and the LibraryGroupCreate tool to create library groups. Use the Browser tool to browse or modify existing libraries and library groups.

If you want the CMIS root to map directly to a single folder, identify the folder in context of the flexible library-based mounting mechanism. You can obtain a path to any folder without creating a library. You do not have to create a library, but the only thing that you need is a path to a folder. You can search and find any existing folder in the system and identify a valid path. You can also find folders under the existing libraries and All Item Types library. Use the Browser tool to browse or search for an existing folder and identify its path in context to the library-based mounting mechanism.

Then, the next step is to configure the cmisRoot setting to link directly to any path in context of the flexible library-based mounting mechanism. The CMIS root becomes the folder that you specify and is linked directly to the path you specify. The actual path is hidden up to the underlying folder including the folder itself. You do not see the name of the folder in the path. The CMIS root returns the children of the folder you mapped.

You can link the mounting mechanism root containing library groups, a specific library group containing libraries, a specific library containing folders and documents, or any folder within a library. By default, CMIS root is mapped to the root of the flexible library-based mounting mechanism,/cmRoot. It is recommended to configure CMIS root to map to a single library group and create multiple libraries to mount as many folders or searches as needed that are displayed to users based on access control.