Synchroniasation livelink Alfresco

[vinzz]

Hello,

I'm in internship and I'm working with livelink but i don't know really this software. The purpose of my project is to send documents from livelink to ALfresco. This synchronization should be done every day. Do you have any ideas about how do that ?

Thanks

 

[ggriffit]

Given your situation I would suggest that you look at LAPI which is the Livelink APIs and create a simple program that can be run daily to poll the system and gather new content and then republish that to Alfresco for you.

Are you planning to copy only new documents or documents and versions ?
What about other LL objects ?
Is there a reason you are duplicating content ?
Have you looked at other options such as VirtualPath or Doorways ?

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[vinzz]

Thx for your answer,

The reason to duplicate content is to give access at some document some users by Alfresco in order to avoid to pay an livelink licenses for them.

if there is different version for a same document, only the last version should be keep in Alfresco.

Where can I find the Livelink API ?

For your other question (LL objects, virtual, doorway) I don't know really.

 

[appnair]

if the company has bought the livelink sdk it can be downloaded form the kb.The SDK consists amongst many things builder,lapi.Lapi is vailable to be programmed in C,C++,C#,VB.NET,VB or Java,As Greg says we find it kind of defeating the purpose duplicating content.If your livelink and alfresco is SSO env it might suffice if you publish URL's of documents in livelink which could be made as simply as thru a sql query.A person clicking the URL (assuming it is a web interface) will be taken to the object in livelink

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

Certified OT Developer and probably certfiable,Livelink ECM Champion 2008

 

[vinzz]

thx for your help,

i'm not a native speaker and I don't understand what you mean by "kb".

 

[appnair]

Knowledge base is where Open Text delivers its software.If anybody in your company has an account they can ask for your account to be created and you can download,software.sdk,optional modules etc that your company has purchased.

The web address is

http://knowledge.opentext.com

Hope that helps what "KB" is.Good Luck

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

Certified OT Developer and probably certfiable,Livelink ECM Champion 2008

 

[vinzz]

ok thx

 

[KHuie]

Vinzz,

That seems a costly way to go about it. What if you structure the permissions to use the PUBLIC User Group to allow access to this other group? Pehaps you could add a URL to the login page for GUEST and predefine an Anonymous user account with PUBLIC access...

AppNair, Ggriffit what do you guys think?

Ken

 

[appnair]

that could surely work unless of course the organization has some policies preventing the exposure of the userid/password in the URL.Typical intranet scenarios could work as well unless one is pre-occupied to find who really visited the link
Just my USD 0.02

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

Certified OT Developer and probably certfiable,Livelink ECM Champion 2008

 

[KHuie]

Right... Plus you would want to remove access to the 'public' user account's homepage and settings. I.E. lock it down as much as possible.