Library concepts
Connections Content Manager uses the FileNet P8 Platform to store and retrieve documents in libraries.
- Library
- Libraries are sets of documents and folders grouped with common configuration settings, such as access and draft approval options. Libraries are added to communities to provide document management capabilities. Community owners can create libraries in Connections Content Manager by adding a Library widget to a community from the customization shelf.
When a library is created, an object of class Teamspace is automatically created in FileNet to represent the library. The Teamspace class is a subclass of Folder, and is part of a common object model shared with IBM Content Navigator and other IBM content applications.
Community owners mark a library for deletion by removing a Library widget from a community. Deleting a library does not remove the associated Teamspace object and its content from FileNet, but removes the library from the view of Connections Content Manager and marks the corresponding teamspace object for deletion in FileNet.
Instances of the Teamspace class can be manually in FileNet, or through other applications such as IBM Content Navigator. Content stored in Teamspace is created outside of Connections. This content is not added to the search index and does not inherit permissions from communities.
Libraries created by adding a widget to a community inherit permissions from the community membership list and are added into the search index. Community owners are administrators of the library created in that community, and have broad powers to add and delete content anywhere in the library. Community members have at least read access to non-draft documents in the library. Access can be customized through the edit mode on the library widget by the community owners, or by settings on individual folders and documents.
Libraries created by IBM Connections are created in the FileNet object store configured for Connections, by default...
ClbTeamspaces/ICObjectStore
- Object
- Objects are the managed elements in FileNet and in Connections Content Manager. Types of objects include:
- Document
- Folder
- Teamspace
- Recovery Bin
- Recovery Item
- Abstract Comment and subclasses
- Custom Role Base and subclasses
- Document Review
- Download Record
- Follower
- Recommendation (Like)
- Summary Data
- Tag
- Activity Stream Queue Entry
- Seedlist Entry
- Collaboration Configuration
The object types extend FileNet to provide special capabilities exposed in Connections Content Manager. Users of Connections Content Manager do not always directly interact with all types of objects. Instead, most objects are created as a side effect of liking, downloading, following, commenting on, or performing other actions with documents.
- Add-on
- A FileNet add-on is a group of object types, event listeners, and other objects that provide extra capabilities to FileNet.
When using the Connections Content Manager configuration tools to create a FileNet system, the definitions for the object types that Connections uses are imported into FileNet. The following set of add-ons are added to the new object store by the object store creation tool, createObjectStore:
- 5.2.0 Base Application Extensions
- 5.2.0 Base Content Engine Extensions
- 5.2.0 Custom Role Extensions
- 5.2.0 Social Collaboration Base Extensions
- 5.2.0 Social Collaboration Document Review Extensions
- 5.2.0 Social Collaboration Notification Extensions
- 5.2.0 Social Collaboration Role Extensions
- 5.2.0 Social Collaboration Search Indexing Extensions
- 5.2.0 TeamSpace Extensions
- 5.2.0 FP1 Social Collaboration User Identity Mapping Extensions
- IBM FileNet Services for Lotus Quickr 1.1 Extensions
- IBM FileNet Services for Lotus Quickr 1.1 Supplemental Metadata
- Document
- A document is a special type of object with a version history and a binary file. A document is a file in Connections Content Manager. Documents can have special behaviors through draft approval or other event listeners. Documents can have metadata and access control. In Connections Content Manager, documents have a feed of comments, list of tags, and a list of likes. All of these feeds are added to Documents using the standard extension mechanisms in FileNet with custom object classes. Documents have other standard metadata, such as last modified date, which are provided by the core FileNet platform.
- Storage area
- A storage area is a device or logical place used to store document binary files. With Connections Content Manager, content stores can be database or file system based. Storage areas are not directly available to community users.
By using the configuration tools provided with Connections Content Manager to create a FileNet system, a single file system-based storage area is created using the ccm subdirectory of the Connections shared content directory for its storage. Use file system-based storage areas for new object stores because they scale independently of database size limitations and make better use of the file system.
- Object store
- An object store is a repository for a collection of objects. Each object store has its own logical database, which can be shared in actual database, but isolated by schema. Each object store also has its own set of tables for storing information about objects. Object stores have configuration for default security permissions that are applied to all objects in that store. Object stores also have a default storage area, and have configuration for the types of objects available in that store.
The Library widget always creates new libraries in a single particular object store. Libraries (FileNet Teamspace) in existing and other object stores can be used with the Linked Library widget.
By using the configuration tools provided with Connections Content Manager to create a FileNet system, a single object store is created (named ICObjectStore by default). Also, and add-ons are installed, a single storage area is created, and default permissions are set with the createObjectStore command.
- Domain
- A domain is a logical grouping of object stores, storage areas, and other resources that are served by a common set of servers. All objects in a domain share directory configuration and some global security configuration. Each FileNet domain has its own global configuration database (GCD) which contains this configuration.
By using the configuration tools provided with Connections Content Manager to create a FileNet system, a single domain is created with the createGCD command.
Parent topic:
Administer Libraries