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Enterprise Contracts for IBM-FileNet P8

Installation Guide
Product Version: 1.5 July 17, 2007 Document Version: 1.1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 2 Overview.......................................................................................................................................... 3 Installation Pre-requisites ................................................................................................................ 4 Installation Process ......................................................................................................................... 5 Database Setup ........................................................................................................................... 5 Filenet Objectstore Setup ............................................................................................................ 5 Filenet Process Engine Setup...................................................................................................... 5 Filenet EC Application Setup ....................................................................................................... 6

OVERVIEW
The purpose of this document is to provide detailed instructions on installing Enterprise Contracts for Filenet P8.

INSTALLATION PRE-REQUISITES
The following pre-requisites are required to install Enterprise Contracts for Filenet P8. Filenet P8 Environment Administrator access to the Filenet P8 Environment Admin access to the Database Server

INSTALLATION PROCESS
Please follow the process mentioned below to install and configure Enterprise Contracts for Filenet P8. The zip file provided for Enterprise Contracts installation contains the required files to install Enterprise Contracts. Unzip the file into a location accessible to you. The unzipped files will be contained in 5 major folders namely, database, installation, objectstore, PE Config, and application. The installation process has been divided into the following sections. Database Setup Filenet Objectstore Setup Filenet Process Engine Setup Filenet EC Application Setup

Database Setup
SQL Server Specific: Go to SQL Enterprise Manager. Open up the SQL Server on which you wish to create the database. Create the database with the name EnterpriseContracts. Open up SQL Query Analyzer and connect to the above mentioned database server. Set EnterpriseContracts as the current database. Click on File Open and select the file SQL scripts.sql file located in the database folder of the installation. Execute the query. This should create numerous tables in the EnterpriseContracts database and also populate many tables with sample data. Take note of the database server, database name, userid, and password to connect to the database. These will be required to configure the application.

Filenet Objectstore Setup


Go to Filenet Enterprise Manager. Select (or create) the objectstore on which you wish to setup EnterpriseContracts. Right-click on the objectstore and select All Tasks Import All. Browse to the Objectstore folder of the installation and select the file CE Objects.xml. Make sure that the import process is complete without any errors. This process will import all relevant contract objects in the objectstore. Take note of the content engine and the objectstore details. These will be required to configure the application.

Filenet Process Engine Setup


Logon to Workplace and then go to Process Configuration Console. Connect to the router and right-click on it. Select import xml definition. Select the PEConfig.xml file in the PE folder of the installation. This process should create the relevant queues that will be used in EnterpriseContracts. The folder PE also contains two sample workflows one for new contracts and the other for existing contracts. Take note of the process engine router details. This will be required to configure the application.

Filenet EC Application Setup


Tomcat Specific: Go to the application folder of the installation and unzip the contents of the zip (or jar) file into the webapps folder of Tomcat. Go to the WEB-INF/ECConfiguration.xml and the WEB_INF/LDAPConfiguration.xml files and edit the files. Modify the Content Engine, Process Engine and Database settings.

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