I'm using the CMIS connector in Appian 7.8 to work with an Alfresco reposito

robbier over 10 years ago

I'm using the CMIS connector in Appian 7.8 to work with an Alfresco repository (Community Edition 5.0, which I have installed myself, vanilla install).

In Appian I have set up 3rd-party credentials correctly (I'm using the Alfresco admin account), obtained the repository ID and I am able to start using the Appian connector functions. I am creating a rudimentary CMIS browser in SAIL using the a!cmiGetFolderChildren function. This is where I am starting to run into issues.

So I can connect to the Alfresco repository root folder and the above function returns all of the Alfresco root folders--if you know Alfresco this is a series of standard system folders (Guest Home, User Home, ...Sites etc). All of these system folders get returned to me with the Appian function. However, drilling down to any subfolders of these starts to produce issues---subfolders don't get returned.

For example, when I select one of the these folders, for example, Sites where I ...

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0 robbier over 10 years ago

So I was just about to write this up. I got it to work. I took the cmiGetFolderChildren and isolated that into its own expression rule. I have no idea why but when I had this rule directly in the SAIL form it behaved in a way I didn't understand (and not as advertised) but putting the exact same function behind an expression rule did the trick.
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0 robbier over 10 years ago

So I was just about to write this up. I got it to work. I took the cmiGetFolderChildren and isolated that into its own expression rule. I have no idea why but when I had this rule directly in the SAIL form it behaved in a way I didn't understand (and not as advertised) but putting the exact same function behind an expression rule did the trick.
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