Reproduce IBM P8 Change Preprocessor in Alfresco

[ptellier]

We're migrating to Alfresco Community Edition from IBM P8 where we have Change Preprocessors that automatically update document properties when the document is ingested.  For instance, newly added documents are given a custom ID.

What is the recommended way to reproduce this functionality in Alfresco?  Do I want an out-of-process extension point:  https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/latest/develop/oop-ext-points/events/?

[angelborroy · Accepted solution]

There are many different ways of doing that:

• Folder rules (JavaScript API): https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/community/using/content/rules/
• Custom behaviours (Maven SDK): https://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/behaviors/tutorial/tutorial.html
• Listener (Out of Process SDK): https://github.com/aborroy/alfresco-genai/blob/main/alfresco-ai/alfresco-ai-listener/pom.xml

It depends on your use case and skills.