You are viewing limited content. For full access, please sign in.

Question

Question

Public Facing API for Importing documents.

SDK
Updated July 16, 2019
asked on April 8, 2019

Hey guys,

So the need has arisen to allow external business's applications to push documents into our laserfiche repository through the use of a public facing API.  Has anyone built anything like this in the past or found any 3rd party apps that could assist.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

0 0

Replies

replied on April 8, 2019

I would recommend giving them an FTP site to upload the files to and then use Import Agent to monitor the folder where the FTP stores the files and importing them into Laserfiche.

1 0
replied on April 8, 2019

There are a lot of ways you could do this depending on your exact needs and what resources you have access to.

What kind of access do these applications have to your network? One thing we've done for some applications is just give them access to a network drive, then showed them how to build the XML import files.

Instead of letting them write directly to our repository, they drop in the network folder and we pull the files in ourselves; this gives us more control and allows us to easily scan things before it gets brought into the repository.

If you absolutely need an API, and you have developers, then you might want to use the Laserfiche SDK to build something yourself. Just keep in mind that the connection to the repository will need to be licensed in some way.

0 0
replied on April 8, 2019

Thanks for your reply.

I had considered giving them the ability to drop files to a network share, we also have the ability to email scrape as well but we were after something a little more direct and ideally we would like to avoid giving them any access to the network directly.

We are currently investigating the use of the CMIS Gateway. I have not used this before so i'm not sure if it will be able to achieve what we are looking for tho.

0 0
replied on April 8, 2019

I don’t know a lot about the CMIS gateway, but based on what I’ve seen at the Empower conference classes I’m not sure it would be the best option for public facing API.

In my experience, a .NET web application would give you the most security and flexibility and at the moment you need to get the SDK to get the CMIS gateway anyway.

However, as Bert suggested an FTP site would be a nice middle ground that doesn’t require as much development but still keeps them outside your network.

0 0
replied on July 16, 2019

Any luck uploading files to laserfiche using CMIS gateway

0 0
You are not allowed to follow up in this post.

Sign in to reply to this post.

Details
Related Posts
Loading ...