Integration considerations for Alfresco Community

When you define the ECM server properties for an Alfresco Community server, the default CMIS web service context path is "/alfresco/cmisws".
You can contact your Alfresco Community administrator for complete connection information.

Other integration considerations for Alfresco Community are described in the following sections:

  • CMIS capabilities
  • Deviations from the CMIS standard

Capabilities

Alfresco Community supports the optional CMIS capabilities that are described in the following table:

CMIS capability Alfresco Community Workflow considerations
ACL manage Not applicable
AllVersionsSearchable false  
Changes none Not applicable
ContentStreamUpdatability anytime  
GetDescendants true  
GetFolderTree true  
Join none Queries cannot include any JOIN clauses
Multifiling true  
PWCSearchable false Private working copies of a document are not searchable
PWCUpdatable true  
Query bothcombined  
Renditions read Not applicable
Unfiling false Documents are always filed in a folder
VersionSpecificFiling false  

Deviations from the CMIS standard

Alfresco deviates from the OASIS CMIS standard in the following ways:

  • The ECM operation Remove Document From Folder (CMIS removeObjectFromFolder) requires the specification of the Parent Folder Id (CMIS folderId) parameter even though the CMIS standard defines it as optional.
  • When a new version of a document is being created, Alfresco requires a new unique document name to be specified.