Hi guys,
Just to let you know what’s going on - for informational purposes more than
anything.
I initially tried taking the AMP file provided in the MCF plugins directory
(0.7.0) and tried to install it into Alfresco but got a message saying a file
was missing.
Instead, I cloned the repository on GitHub for the alfresco-indexer project and
then built it on my local machine. This generated the AMP file (0.7.2).
I was able to successfully install the AMP file onto my Alfresco instance.
As it happens I now cannot log into Alfresco Share ('bad credentials or server
not available' message) but that is something I can work on. Apparently the
installation of some AMP files have been known to cause this issue.
So, progress to a point!
Paul Farrell
Senior Search Consultant
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> On 20 Oct 2015, at 12:36, Rafa Haro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At the Alfresco side, hope this helps:
>
> http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/tasks/amp-install.html
> <http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/tasks/amp-install.html>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> The AMP file is actually shipped as part of the binary MCF distribution. You
> can find it under "plugins".
>
> Karl
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully this will be my only request for information today.
> I’m afraid this is a bit of a newbie question but I have managed to get the
> Manifold UI to now show ‘Alfresco Webscripts’ as a connector. The only bit I
> am missing now is to install the AMP file in Afresco.
>
> I realise that this is slightly outside of the Manifold remit but I wondered
> if anyone can advise how I build the AMP file from the URL
> (https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-indexer
> <https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-indexer>)? I have cloned the repository to
> my local drive but, having never worked with Maven, am at a loss at how to
> generate the AMP file that I then need to install into Alfresco.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 17:36, Karl Wright <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> The only way you can have such a reduced list of connectors is if somebody
>> commented out many connectors in your connectors.xml, or removed them from
>> the database table where they are registered by hand.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> After a good deal of time clicking around I came to the same conclusion -
>> that there is no way of telling from the UI!!
>>
>> Having dug a bit deeper I believe I may actually have the Alfresco WebScript
>> connectors installed. At least the 0.7.0 version. I notice in the ‘lib’
>> directory that I have ‘alfresco-indexer-webscripts-0.7.0.amp.
>>
>> Looking in the ‘connectors.xml’ file I can also see the line :
>>
>> <repositoryconnector name="Alfresco Webscript"
>> class="org.apache.manifoldcf.crawler.connectors.alfrescowebscript.AlfrescoConnector”/>
>>
>> You can imagine my excitement!
>>
>> The only thing I am missing is the option in the UI. When I click to create
>> a new repo connection I get: CMIS, Dropbox, Generic, GoogleDrive, HDFS,
>> Jira, Meridio, RSS, Sharepoint.
>>
>> Perhaps I am hoping for too much to hope that I can make a simple change to
>> enable this repo connection?
>>
>> Thanks for all the help everyone
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 17:26, Karl Wright <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hah; there's not a way to inquire in the UI, if that's what you mean. But
>>> if you see "Alfresco webscript" in the list of repository connection types,
>>> you've got a version that supports that connector.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Thanks Rafa.
>>>
>>> As an aside, is there an easy way to identify which version of ManifoldCF
>>> you are on?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Paul Farrell
>>> Senior Search Consultant
>>>
>>> 109-123 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4LD
>>> T +44 (0) 207 183 6865 <tel:%2B44%20%280%29%20207%20183%206865> |
>>> funnelback.com <http://www.funnelback.com/>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 16:54, Rafa Haro <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> All you need to do is to install this webscript
>>>> <https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-indexer> within your Alfresco instance.
>>>> The connector itself is already part of the most recent versions of
>>>> ManifoldCF
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rafa
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> Ok, thanks again guys.
>>>>
>>>> The Webscript connector it is.
>>>>
>>>> I realise I am asking a lot here but are there any easy-to-follow
>>>> guidelines on how to get this Webscript connector installed? I see there
>>>> is a GitHub page here
>>>> (https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-webscript-manifold-connector
>>>> <https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-webscript-manifold-connector>) which
>>>> discusses it (although it directs you to a repository of files).
>>>>
>>>> I am just keen to make sure that any steps I follow to try and get this
>>>> Webscript connector installed and working are updated, reliable steps. I
>>>> would hate to waste time with out of date information.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks all
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 16:23, Muhammed Olgun <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest that you should use Alfresco Webscript as Karl mentioned. Web
>>>>> services is so slow compared to other services and I've also checked that
>>>>> Alfresco CMIS web services does not return change token(may be there is
>>>>> something that I don't know).
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way current version of CMIS connector is not aware of change
>>>>> token. I would write a patch for you if alfresco supports change token
>>>>> property.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Muhammed
>>>>> 19 Eki 2015 Pzt, saat 18:11 tarihinde Karl Wright <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> şunu yazdı:
>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> The Alfresco Webscript connector is a wholly different connector that has
>>>>> no relation to the CMIS connector. It requires an Alfresco webscript
>>>>> plugin be installed on your Alfresco server to work, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Muhammed/Karl,
>>>>>
>>>>> Firstly, thank-you so much for taking the time to reply. It is very much
>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I am using the AtomPub for my CMIS repository connection. I
>>>>> have just read something which may shed a little light on this. The post
>>>>> read that change tokens are not passed via AtomPub connections
>>>>> (https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-api/cmis-change-log-token-problem-using-opencmis-03282011-1758
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-api/cmis-change-log-token-problem-using-opencmis-03282011-1758>).
>>>>> If true, this would explain why ManifoldCF may be unable to determine a
>>>>> change in Alfresco.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like I have two possible options left open to me (correct me if
>>>>> I’m wrong):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. I look to use ‘Web Services’ instead of ‘AtomPub’ for the connection
>>>>> mechanism
>>>>> 2. I upgrade ManifoldCF so that I can use the ‘Web Scripts’ connector?
>>>>> (or is this the same as the ‘Web Services’ connection mentioned above?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Farrell
>>>>> Senior Search Consultant
>>>>>
>>>>> 109-123 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4LD
>>>>> T +44 (0) 207 183 6865 <tel:%2B44%20%280%29%20207%20183%206865> |
>>>>> funnelback.com <http://www.funnelback.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>> UNITED KINGDOM | AUSTRALIA | NEW ZEALAND | POLAND | UNITED STATES
>>>>>
>>>>> Connect with us: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/funnelback> -
>>>>> Twitter <https://twitter.com/funnelback>
>>>>>
>>>>> Funnelback UK Ltd is a limited liability company registered in England &
>>>>> Wales. Registered address: Zetland House 109-123, Clifton Street, London.
>>>>> EC2A 4LD. Company registration number: 07004264.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 15:12, Muhammed Olgun <[email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Repositories should give information to ManifoldCF when they updated.
>>>>>> Current CMIS connector reindex document if the lastest version of the
>>>>>> document has changed, not updated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a change token property in CMIS specification and it should
>>>>>> change when document is updated so ManifoldCF can understand that
>>>>>> document is updated but implementing change token property is optional.
>>>>>> I've checked Alfresco's CMIS web site and seen that they didn't set the
>>>>>> change token.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think, there is nothing we can do at this point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 19 Eki 2015 Pzt, 15:59 tarihinde, Karl Wright <[email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> şunu yazdı:
>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This looks like a bug in the CMIS connector to me; usually the document
>>>>>> version string the connector constructs should be adequate to detect all
>>>>>> changes. Can you create a ticket? https://issues.apache.org/jira
>>>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira> , project ManifoldCF. Please include
>>>>>> what version of MCF you are using here. FWIW, this may be in fact a bug
>>>>>> in the Alfresco CMIS implementation, but we'll have to have some back
>>>>>> and forth before I can determine that for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the meantime, have you considered using the Alfresco Webscript
>>>>>> connector? It's the preferred way to do Alfresco indexing, although
>>>>>> there have been issues reported having to do with running it on some
>>>>>> configurations of Alfresco. I'm not entirely sure what the problem is
>>>>>> there; maybe a version dependency of some kind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Paul Farrell <[email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hoping someone may be able to advise.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am currently using Manifold, together with a CMIS connector, to
>>>>>> retrieve and index content from an Alfresco repository.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All is going well apart from, what I would call, the ‘incremental crawl’.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main issue I am having is that the modification of a document’s
>>>>>> security settings, in Alfresco, is not being picked up in next Manifold
>>>>>> crawl. As an example I have a document ‘TestDoc1’ which has user A and B
>>>>>> as Consumers. I run a crawl in Manifold and it picks up the documents
>>>>>> fine. The security is set as expected. I then remove ‘User A’ from the
>>>>>> security of that document and re-run the Manifold crawl. User A can
>>>>>> still see the document in the local search engine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is as if Manifold is not treating the security update as a
>>>>>> ‘modification’ and is therefore not refreshing it. Note that if I go
>>>>>> into the Output Connections, edit and save the relevant output
>>>>>> connection and then click ‘Remove all associated documents’, the next
>>>>>> time I crawl, the changes are picked up. It is clear that Manifold is
>>>>>> just not updating whatever internal record it has for this item.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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