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Integrating with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems
You can interact with an Enterprise Content Management server to store or view documents.
ECM systems manage documents of different types such as records, images, and web pages throughout their lifecycle. ECM systems are used to increase efficiency and to monitor the security of information, and comply with industry and government regulations. You can access and update these documents from a business process by using Enterprise Content Management operations in services such as an integration service or human service.
For Enterprise Content Management integration, there are predefined types and services that you can use. These types and services are contained in the Content Management (SYSCM) toolkit.
- Adding an Enterprise Content Management server
You need at least one Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server for the service you develop. You specify the connection properties to access an ECM server on the Process App Settings Servers page for a process application or on the Toolkit Settings Servers page for a toolkit. Adding the server to the Toolkit Settings Servers page allows the connection properties to be reused.
- Outbound interactions with Enterprise Content Management systems
You can implement queries and services that interact with Enterprise Content Management servers.
- Inbound events from Enterprise Content Management systems
In IBM BPM, you can create event subscriptions and design business processes and services that detect and respond to inbound content events from Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. The content events are used to catch and throw interactions with an ECM system. Business processes can instantiate, continue, or end based on the type of content event, such as the creation, modification, or deletion of a document.- Troubleshooting interactions with Enterprise Content Management systems
From time to time, you may encounter some issues during interactions with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. In most situations, you can successfully work around these issues.