Configuring for viewing IBM Content Manager and FileNet P8 objects with IBM Content Navigator

If you use IBM Content Manager as repository, you can view archived documents and folders. If you use FileNet P8 as repository, you can view archived documents, folders, stored searches, and search templates.

To view IBM Content Manager or FileNet P8 objects with IBM Content Navigator, you must change the instance configuration. If the default viewer map of IBM Content Navigator, which associates each MIME type with a specific viewer, does not fit your needs, you must also define a custom viewer map.

Before you begin

Planning for secure viewing

About this task

The following shows which parts of the Content Collector for SAP environment must be configured so that you can view IBM Content Manager or FileNet P8 objects with IBM Content Navigator.

Figure 1. Configuration of your Content Collector for SAP environment for viewing objects with IBM Content Navigator
The architecture of the Content Collector for SAP environment showing only the parts that must be configured so that you can view IBM Content Manager or FileNet P8 objects with IBM Content Navigator. These parts include SAP ArchiveLink, a Collector Server instance, the repositories, andIBM Content Navigator.

In your basic instance configuration, you configured the logical IBM Content Manager archives or the logical FileNet P8 archives that contain the objects that are to be viewed.

To complete the configuration of your environment for viewing IBM Content Manager or FileNet P8 objects with IBM Content Navigator, you must change the instance configuration.

For an overview of the document viewers that are supported by IBM Content Navigator and for information about how to configure the document viewers, see the IBM Content Navigator product documentation (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEUEX/welcome).

Procedure

  1. In Configuration Feature, complete the following steps:
    1. Open the instance configuration that you want to change.
    2. Go to Logical Archives > Logical IBM Content Manager Archive id or go to Logical Archives > Logical FileNet P8 Archive id.
    3. Complete the Viewing with IBM Content Navigator section.
    4. Repeat steps 1.b and 1.c for each logical archive that contains objects that are to be viewed with IBM Content Navigator.
      Important: If you want to use a common user for viewing, ensure that the URL of IBM Content Navigator contains the fully qualified host name. In addition, the cookie domain must be equal to, or a subset of, this URL.
    5. If you specified HTTPS as protocol in the URL of IBM Content Navigator, enable SSL support for the server. Use your web application server administration tools for this task.
    6. If you specified HTTPS and a common user, complete this task: Configuring the client authentication.
      The certificate that you create on the web application server that hosts must be issued for the host name that you specified in the URL of .
    Note: The IBM Content Collector for SAP does not support Single Sign On (SSO). So, do the following:
    • Open Content Navigator Task View.
    • Click Configure the IBM Content Navigator Web Application. Configure the IBM Content Navigator Web Application window opens.
    • In IBM Content Navigator authentication field, select IBM Content Navigator desktop authentication option from the drop-down list.
    • Enter information in the remaining fields.
    • Click Save.
  2. If the default viewer map does not fit your needs, define a custom viewer map in IBM Content Navigator.
    For details, see Configuring viewers used to display documents in the web client (www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEUEX_2.0.3/com.ibm.installingeuc.doc/eucco011.htm).
    Note: Launch of an IBM Content Navigator browser works when the configuration of SAP transaction "oag1" is changed.
    If the IBM Content Navigator browser is not launched and documents are empty, complete the following step:
    • In Viewer settings, configure call Internet browser instead of use HTML control.
    When Call Internet Browser is configured, IBM Content Navigator is launched.
    When use HTML control is configured, the SAPGUI viewer is launched, but IBM Content Navigator is not launched.

Results

In a server configuration profile, you find the following specifications that relate to the viewing of objects with IBM Content Navigator:
Section in server configuration profile Keyword UI field that supplies the value
ARCHIVE ICN_URL URL
ICN_DESKTOP Desktop ID
ICN_REPOSITORY_ID Repository ID
ICN_INCLUDED_MIMETYPES Displayed MIME types
ICN_EXCLUDED_MIMETYPES Excluded MIME types
ICN_USERID User
ICN_SESSION_DOMAIN Cookie domain