Questions tagged [filenet-p8]

FileNet P8 is an Enterprise Content Management System produced by IBM. This is a "software to help enterprises manage their content and business processes."

What it is ?

IBM FileNet P8 is a proprietary Enterprise Content Management platform (), that offer you document management system capabilities, coupled to a .

Also add record management tools and a frontend (Workplace, Workplace-XT and now Content Navigator)

FileNet P8 consists of different components working together:

  • Content Engine (CE) Works with documents and content.
  • Process Engine (PE) Manage workflows and BPM solutions.
  • Application engine (AE) Where the frontend lives
  • Content Search Engine (CSE) now Content Search Services (CSS) To manage queries and indexes.
  • Record Management (RM) In charge of the deletion and/or conservation process of the content.

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The fastest way to fetch PropertyTemplate by symbolic name ising IBM FileNet CE API

The only way I know is to iterate through property templates of object store and find the one I need by comparing symbolic name with some String: String propertySymName = "someName"; ObjectStore os = Factory.ObjectStore.fetchInstance(...); //assume…
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Filenet P8 5.1 and 5.2 deleting/replacing document content with new content

One of the requirement is to update the document with new content also delete the old document. document Id and other properties of the previous document should be pointing to the new document with new content. There any sample snippet to do the…
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Using IBM FileNet Web services in C# Application

Our organization uses IBM FileNet as document management system. FileNet P8 comes with a web services API which can be used in .net Has anyone of you guys tried this? If yes could you please direct me to any resources to kick start? Thanks a ton in…
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Query DateTime field using Date only in FileNet Content Engine

Is it possible to query using only a Date field such as '2017-03-02' in IBM FileNet? I have tried the below statement and it doesn't seem to work SELECT * FROM Table_Name WHERE EstimatedDate = '2017-03-02' OR SELECT * FROM Table_Name WHERE…
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Filenet Change Document Class

I'm trying to change class for a given document and below is the code that I used Document p8Document = Factory.Document.getInstance(p8ObjectStore, oldDocumentClassName, new Id(documentId)); p8Document.changeClass(newDocClassName); …
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How should i proper page queries in IBM FileNet?

Are there any methods to page queries in FileNet? I have a grid control with paging so i need to get count of elements total in query and possibility to get in example page 3 of results(with any page size). I found only TOP operator, but are there…
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SearchScope fetchRows vs fetchObjects (IBM FileNet CE API)

I've been using SearchScope.fetchObjects() method till this time, and then it just occurred to me that fetchRows might be the better choice in some cases (when you don't need metadata like class names, object stores etc). Something tells me it might…
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Getting object store properties without additional round-trip

I'm using IBM FileNet CE API 5.1 and facing perfomance problem because of additional refreshing in loop with great iteration amount (25000+). Here is code sample: for (Document document : documents) { ObjectStore objectStore =…
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IBM FileNet P8 vs IBM Case Manager?

Edit: closed due to opinion-based vs fact based, but the answer is quite fact based: Case Manager is a superset of FileNet, not a competing product. In my project, we're considering using IBM Case Manager instead of FileNet P8+ILOG JRules to…
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FileNet P8 cannot checkout a document

I have an issue checking-out files in FileNet P8. It is possible for me to perform a checkout over documents with class "Document". Nevertheless, for any document from another class, the systems keeps telling me that the operation is not…
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Updating Creator property in FileNet P8

I am trying to update the Creator property in a FileNetP8 implementation. I tried to update it using the grant of "Modify Certain System Properties" however it seems that this grant does not apply to "Creator" and rather applies to other properties…
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Searching for a folder in FileNet ContentEngine and retrieving its class

I had gotten the code to work to search for folders and retrieve properties. Ref: Search folder hierarchy in FileNet for a particular folder I am trying to retrieve the class name of the folder object so as to differentiate between different types…
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how do we debug the bulk action javascript from ACCE?

Can someone throw in their idea on how we can debug the javascript that we write from the bulk action script from ACCE? I understand that the alert or debug statement may not work there. What are the other options we have?
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How to deploy an IBM Filenet P8 Subscription?

In my current project using Filenet P8 Content Platform Engine 5.2.1 with WebSphere 8.5.5.3, I'm wondering how to deploy a content engine subscription to the system. I searched the IBM documentation but it tells how to build up a subscription but…
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Filenet user cache refresh

When a 'new' user is added to an existing AD group or we create a new AD 'group' we have to wait too long for the cache in P8 to be updated. If I transfer any workflow into the region it will update the cache immediately. Our java program is…
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