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Outbound operations

Application components use operations to perform actions such as creating instances of Document types or Folders on the Content Management Repository. The adapter provides certain outbound operations. The name of the operation typically indicates the type of action that the adapter takes, such as Create or Delete.

During outbound processing, the calling component (part of SCA application) calls the adapter to connect and work with business data on the Content Management Repository. All interactions between the calling component and the server are request-response type.

• Create operation
  The Create operation creates a document or a folder corresponding to the selected Document type or Folders in the Content Management Repository specified content.
• Retrieve operation
  The Retrieve operation extracts the document content or folder properties based on the request from the SCA component. For Document types, the Retrieve operation retrieves the content and also the properties from the document. For Folders, the Retrieve operation retrieves the properties of the folder.
• RetrieveAll operation
  The RetrieveAll operation extracts the properties of all documents along with the Document URLs to the content of the documents or folders which match a search criteria specified in the request from the SCA component.
• Update operation
  The Update operation updates a document or folder properties in the CMIS server based on the request from the SCA component.
• Delete operation
  The Delete operation deletes a document or folder in the Content Management Repository based on the request from the SCA component.
• RetrieveProperties operation
  The RetrieveProperties operation extracts the properties of a document content based on the request from an SCA component.
• UpdateProperties operation
  The UpdateProperties operation updates the properties in a document in the CMIS server based on the request from the SCA component.

Outbound processing