• Requirements
• Digdash user / Alfresco user
• Creating a new Alfresco file server
• Server configuration
  • Identifiers (Name / Password)
  • URL
  • File path
  • Exploring sub-folders
  • Access rights (limited)
• Possible actions

DigDash Enterprise allows you to retrieve files stored on an Alfresco account.

Requirements

• An Alfresco server (developments and tests were carried out with the (free) Community version of Alfresco)
• Alfresco administrator credentials (for server configuration)
• Knowledge (not extensive) of the Alfresco tree structure (for server configuration)
• The creation of one or more Alfresco users with the same user names defined in Digdash

Digdash user / Alfresco user

We assume in this document that the Digdash logged-in user also exists in Alfresco with the same username (login).

Creating a new Alfresco file server

You can create a new Alfresco File Server from the Studio:

1. In the Studio, click the Managers button in the left sidebar, then select Servers.
   ➡ The Server URL Manager dialog box appears.
2. Click on the + button to the right of the search bar and then, in the menu that appears, select the type of server: Alfresco.
   ➡ The Add a file server box appears
3. Fill in the fields as described in the Server configuration section below.

Server configuration

Identifiers (Name / Password)

The user connected to Digdash (whoever it may be) will always be connected to the Alfresco server using the admin credentials.

URL

Specify the address of the Alfresco server and the port number if required.

File path

The path for the actions (defined below) should be specified as follows:

Site/Container/Uploaddirectory

Site and Container are mandatory

Uploaddirectory is optional

Table: Alfresco path model for performing actions

Example :

Example of an Alfresco tree structure for an example site (site named "swsdp")

Or the following path: swsdp/documentLibrary/test/retest

Path to an Alfresco site, for example

Exploring sub-folders

You can limit the level of exploration from your document path.

By default, the document search is recursive and will explore all sub-folders.

Table for exploring documents for the Alfresco connector

Access rights (limited)

Although you are always logged in as Admin on the Alfresco server, we have decided to restrict user rights (other than Admin) to a certain extent in line with Alfresco requirements.

Roles and permissions for documents on the Alfresco side

Thus, a visitor (uninvited user on the site, Consumer in Alfresco) will only be granted read and download rights.

We have arbitrarily chosen not to restrict the rights (on the Alfresco side) with regard to actions that would only be possible if the Digdash connected user were the creator of the document (orange boxes).

Possible actions

Via the File Manager , you can act on the files on the Alfresco server.
Consult the page File Manager for more details.