Introduction

This wiki explain how to install the Output Alfresco Plugin into Kettle Pentaho (PDI).

Details

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I assume you have the Kettle folder installed on your file system.

Step 1 - download and install

Now, download the AlfrescoPlugin.tar.gz archive from this web-site home page and extract it into this folder: ../<kettle root>/plugins/steps
E.g.: c:/Kettle/plugins/steps

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• alfrescoicon.png
• alfrescoplugin.jar
• plugin.properties
• plugin.xml

Step 2 - plugin.properties

I developed the plugin in order to be used with an Alfresco Custom Content-Model. As you know well, a custom content-model is a custom entity used build documents with specific metadata. For example, you may need to build documents into Alfresco that identifies a car. A car has some specific characteristics and it's very useful to define them as document metadata, specially to be able to perform useful research into Alfresco. Then, if I want to typify a document with some specific metadata, I've to define a Custom Content-Model, as an xml file, with custom properties as:

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This property value represent the Alfresco API endpoint url; usually http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api*

• alfresco.custom.property.title

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Now we have finished to install and configure the plugin.

jar dependencies

It is possible (I hope not..) to have some problems with the jar dependencies of the plugin. It uses some Alfresco API and some Kettle API and you have to includ all jars into this folder ../<kettle root>/libext The main thing is to have included all jars into the Operating System Environment Variable "CLASSPATH".
I hope this work. If not, contact me!