Connecting and configuring IBM FileNet Content Manager repositories
To access IBM FileNet P8 repository content, you must first connect to at least one repository and configure it to use IBM Content Navigator. After you connect to and configure the repository, you must associate the repository with a desktop.
Before you begin
- You must install the WorkPlace Template Extensions add-on and the Workplace XT add-on.
- If you want to use cross-repository searches and save searches, you must first install the stored search add-on to the object store.
- If you want to use social collaboration features, you must install the social collaboration base extension add-on to the object store. You can install this add-on before or after you configure the repository.
For more information about how to install the add-on, see Installing an add-on feature to an object store in the IBM FileNet P8 documentation.
About this task
The first time that you configure the repository and when you connect to Content Platform Engine, you must connect by using the Content Platform Engine administrator user ID. You must also use Enterprise Manager to get the repository display name and symbolic name.
- Add-ons
- You can specify the add-on features that you want to enable on the repository. The add-ons create the required property templates, classes, custom objects, and folders.
- System properties
- You can specify the system properties that users see in the web client.
- Document and folder names
- To help users identify the folders and documents that they are accessing from the repository, you can specify the properties that are displayed for folders and documents. You must assign the property that identifies the document name and folder name. For example, you can select the document title as the property that is displayed for a document name.
- Searches
- You can configure what users see or do when they
run searches. For example, you can specify the properties that users
can search on and the operators that they can use. You can specify
the properties to display after users run their searches. You can
specify whether users can select more properties to display, or display
only the properties that you specified. If you want users to see only
the properties that they need to complete their tasks, you can hide
the properties that they do not need. Important: Excluding a property from the Magazine view does not ensure that users cannot see the property. If the user selects the property in the Results Display option, the excluded property is displayed.
Procedure
To connect and configure an IBM FileNet Content Manager repository:
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Click General and
enter the information that is specific to the repository that you
are configuring.
You must provide the display name, ID, server name, and object store information to configure a connection to a repository.Important: When you specify the URL for the Content Platform Engine server, you must enter a port number even if the IBM FileNet Content Manager repository is using port 80 or port 443.
For highly available configurations
of Content Platform Engine, use the
highly available EJB transport URL without the cemp:prefix. For more information, see Content Platform Engine in an application server cluster by using EJB transport.