How to deploy an IBM Filenet P8 Subscription?

Question

In my current project using Filenet P8 Content Platform Engine 5.2.1 with WebSphere 8.5.5.3, I\'m wondering how to deploy a content engine subscription to the system.

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Answer 1

There are Subscriptions that deal with workflows, and ones that do not. I am assuming that you are referring to non-workflow subscriptions (subscriptions that deal with Event Actions).

Subscriptions are used to subscribe a class (i.e. Document) to an Event Action. An Event Action is where you actually reference the fully qualified class name implementing the Action. When you create a subscription, one of the steps allows you to also create an Event Action.

Event Actions can either refer to a java class, or can also refer to javascript.

In the case of referring to a java class, a Code Module is needed.

Code Module is a sub-class of Document. Code Modules are simply either class files or jar files as the Content Element of a Code Module object.

So you need to:

1. create a class that implements "com.filenet.api.engine.EventActionHandler" (or you could also create a PreProcessor, but that doesn't have a subscription)
2. Upload the class into a Code Module object
3. Create an Event Action that references the Class that implements EventActionHandler inside your Code Module.
4. Create a subscription that references your Event Action.

Some useful documentation:

1. Change PreProcessors
2. Events and Subscriptions
3. A nice little plugin for eclipse that makes event actions easier to write and update