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Outbound interactions with Enterprise Content Management systems

You can implement queries and services that interact with Enterprise Content Management servers.

• Authentication scenarios
  IBM BPM provides three ways that you can grant access to an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server. You can set a user ID and password for the process application that is recognized by the Enterprise Content Management system. You can design a business process to use personal credentials to control access to specific documents and folders on the ECM server. Or, you can design a business process that uses each method of authentication for different steps in the process.
• How documents are stored and viewed
  

  You can store or view documents from an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server by using functions that work with your search results.

• Building a service that integrates with an Enterprise Content Management system
  Use a service to allow a business process developed in IBM Process Designer to work with an Enterprise Content Management system.
• Building a query for an Enterprise Content Management search operation
  A graphical interface helps you build a query to an Enterprise Content Management server.
• Work with a search result programmatically
  Search results can be substantial. Instead of working with a large search result in a user interface, you may want to parse the search results programmatically.
• Work with document content
  To work with the content of documents, you can use the ECMContentStream data type to wrap a content stream and return information about the stream. A content stream is a stream of data that contains the content of a document, such as a word processing document or an image.
• Data mapping in Enterprise Content Management operations
  Each operation requires that variables be mapped to the input and output fields. Using the auto-map function automatically creates and assigns variables of the right type to each field.

Integrating with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems