CMIS Repository (Node Type)

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Note that some content may still need to be updated.

2025

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.

FYI

CMIS Repositories and CMIS Connections are closely related. You can't understand one without the other.

For more information on CMIS Connections and CMIS Repositories visit the CMIS Connection article.

A CMIS Connection is the Grooper object that connects Grooper to external storage platforms.

Like the Windows file system, or Box cloud storage platform, or an Outlook email account.
Once connected with a CMIS Connection, Grooper can access content in the storage platform by creating and accessing a child CMIS Repository.

The CMIS Repository is the Grooper object that represents a particular repository in the storage platform.

Like a folder in the Windows file system, or a folder in a Box account, or an Outlook inbox.

Glossary

Box: Box is a connection option for cloud CMIS Connections. It Grooper to the Box content management system for import and export operations.

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 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 (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.

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