How to use IBM App Connect with CMIS

Supported product and API versions

To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.

Connecting to a CMIS server

To connect App Connect to an CMIS account that you want App Connect to use, you need the following connection details:

• Browser binding URL: The URL for browser binding obtained from the CMIS server. For example https://<host:port>/<path>/browser.
• User name: The user name used to log in to the CMIS server.
• Password: The password for the user name.

To connect to CMIS from the App Connect Designer Connect > Applications and APIs page (previously the Catalog page) for the first time, under CMIS click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.

What should I consider first?

Before you use App Connect Designer with CMIS, take note of the following considerations:

• (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.

  For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.

• (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
• App Connect supports CMIS 1.1 only.
• #500x Internal Server errors might occur with heavy loads. This issue is caused by the number of concurrent requests that are made to CMIS from App Connect and in the process fully using the link between CMIS and the App Connect.

Events and actions

CMIS events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.

Show more configurable events: Events that are shown by default are pre-configured by using optimized connectivity. More items are available after you configure events that can trigger a flow by polling this application for new or updated objects.

CMIS actions

Your flow completes these actions on this application.