Performing administrative tasks for inbound events

To receive information about inbound document and folder events that originate on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) servers, you need to perform the administrative tasks of developing and installing an event handler on your ECM system. The event handler notifies the IBM BPM system about ECM events by calling the appropriate APIs.

About this task

For most ECM systems, you need to both develop and install an event handler. However, if you are using IBM Filenet Content Manager, an event handler is already provided and you only need to install it.

Information about developing and installing event handlers is found in the following topics:

  • Creating an event handler for an Enterprise Content Management system
    To obtain information about content events that occur on an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server, you must install an event handler on the ECM system. The event handler notifies the IBM BPM system of the events by calling the appropriate IBM BPM APIs. These events can be received by processes on your IBM BPM system.
  • Using the event handler for FileNet Content Manager
    You can deploy the event handler on a IBM® FileNet® Content Manager system, and configure it to provide notification events to your IBM BPM processes.
Parent topic: Inbound events from Enterprise Content Management systems