Enabling the creation, update, and download of ECM documents

Creating, updating, or downloading external Enterprise Content Management (ECM) documents is disabled by default. However, you can enable them, if it is required by your process applications, by adding the enable-document-authorization-security-service configuration setting to the 100Custom.xml files, clearing the Always use this connection information option in external ECM Server definitions, or creating a service that checks the permissions of a user.

This feature requires the latest service level and fixes for your version of IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM).

Creating, updating, or downloading external ECM documents is disabled if the following conditions are met:
  • You use the Document List or Document Viewer coach views to create, update, or download the documents.
  • You are using an external ECM server instead of the internal IBM BPM document store.
  • The properties of the ECM server definition have Always use this connection information selected.

Procedure

To enable the creation, update, and download of a document, perform one of the following procedures: