Configuring External Share after deployment

You can configure your Content Platform Engine and Business Automation Navigator container deployments to enable the sharing of content with users that are external to your organization. After you deploy your containers, you must configure additional settings for External Share.

About this task

Deploying the external share container and configuring your container environment for external share are part of a series of steps that make the external share capability available to users. The following roadmap provides a high-level view of these setup steps, and designates which steps are part of the container environment configuration:
  1. (Container environments) (Post deployment) Establish connection details.
  2.  For 20.0.1 (Container environments) (Post deployment) Designate an identity provider for external users, configure an Identity Provider to provide additional management of internal users, and configure additional parameters and files.
  3.  For 20.0.1 (Container environments) (Post deployment) Configure cross origin resource sharing (CORS) to enable the REST service for external content sharing.
  4. (All environments) (Post deployment) Configure external share settings on FileNet® P8 Platform by using the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine. Settings in the administration console include configuring the additional LDAP directory realm for external users and properties that are specific to external content sharing. See Configuring Content Platform Engine for external sharing for additional information.
  5. (All environments) Configure Business Automation Navigator to enable external shares. See Configuring external Share for additional information.
    • Enable external shares by enabling the P8 repository, and setting appropriate permissions.
    • Set up the external sharing capability for users by adding the share menu actions, creating a custom desktop for external users, and optionally customizing the email template for sharing.
    • You will also need to make IBM Content Navigator available to the external users, outside of the firewall. This task is typically done by a network administrator.
  6. (All environments) (Post deployment) Configuring additional Content Platform Engine settings: