CMIS (Concept)

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) is open standard allowing different content management systems to "interoperate", sharing files, folders and their metadata as well as programmatic control of the platform over the internet.

CMIS defines an abstraction layer for controlling diverse document management systems and repositories using web protocols.  This allows different content management systems to connect to each other's repositories to import, access, and publish documents and their metadata.

Glossary

CMIS Connection: cloud CMIS Connections provide a standardized way of connecting to various content management systems (CMS). CMIS Connections allow Grooper to communicate with multiple external storage platforms, enabling access to documents and document metadata that reside outside of Grooper's immediate environment.

• For those that support the CMIS standard, the CMIS Connection connects to the CMS using the CMIS standard.
• For those that do not, the CMIS Connection normalizes connection and transfer protocol as if they were a CMIS platform.

CMIS Export: CMIS Export is an Export Definition available when configuring an Export Behavior. It exports content over a cloud CMIS Connection, allowing users to export documents and their metadata to various on-premise and cloud-based storage platforms.

CMIS Import: CMIS Import refers to two Import Providers used to import content from settings_system_daydream CMIS Repositories: Import Descendants and Import Query Results. CMIS Imports allow users to import from various on-premise and cloud based storage platforms (including Windows folders, Outlook inboxes, Box accounts, AppEnhancer applications and more).

CMIS Repository: settings_system_daydream CMIS Repository nodes provide document access in external storage platforms through a cloud CMIS Connection. With a CMIS Repository, users can manage and interact with those documents within Grooper. They are used primarily for import using Import Descendants and Import Query Results and for export using CMIS Export.

• CMIS Repositories are create as a child node of a CMIS Connection using the "Import Repository" command.

CMIS+: CMIS+ is a conceptual term that refers to Grooper's connectivity architecture to external storage platforms. CMIS+ standardizes connections to a variety of content management system based on the CMIS standard. This provides a standardized setup to allow Grooper to interoperate with both CMIS compliant systems and non-CMIS systems. It further provides normalized access to document content and metadata for import (CMIS Import) and export (CMIS Export) operations.

CMIS: CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) is open standard allowing different content management systems to "interoperate", sharing files, folders and their metadata as well as programmatic control of the platform over the internet.

Export: output Export is an Activity that transfers documents and extracted information to external file systems and content management systems, completing the data processing workflow.

Repository: A "repository" is a general term in computer science referring to where files and/or data is stored and managed. In Grooper, the term "repository" may refer to:

• PRIMARILY a Grooper Repository. This is most commonly what people are referring to when they simply say "repository".
• Less commonly a CMIS Repository

Service: Grooper Services are various executable programs that run as a Windows Service to facilitate Grooper processing. Service instances are installed, configured, started and stopped using Grooper Command Console (or in older Grooper versions, Grooper Config).

See Also

• CMIS - Wikipedia article.
• CMIS+ - Grooper's infrastructure for standardizing connections to external storage platforms modeled after the CMIS standard.
• CMIS Connection - The object created and used in Grooper to connect to storage platforms.
• CMIS Repository - File locations in a document platform Grooper has access to via a CMIS Connection.
• CMIS Binding - Connection types to individual document storage platforms.
• CMIS Import - Import documents using CMIS Connections
• CMIS Export - Export documents using CMIS Connections