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Can the KM be accessed by another non-sap portal?

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Company has portals based on Vignette.

Also has SAP CRM, where a catalog is based in KM.

Can the Vignette portal or Vignette Content Management System connect to KM?

Can any other CMS's connect to KM?

I would ask on a Vignette forum, but I haven't found one yet.

Thanks!

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former_member110461
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If it supports webdav, then it can access the files sotred in KM no problem as these are accessable via webdav. To get the webdav URL, go to a document -> details. Then choose properties and in there there should be a tab called access links. In here it will have the webdav URL.

Hope that helps

Paul

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Paul -

I am not sure I understand.

What I am wondering is if Vignette CMS can search the KM repository.

I know this isn't the ideal place to ask a Vignette question!

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Hi Eric,

>> I know this isn't the ideal place to ask a Vignette question...

You may feel free to do so.

But the answer is:

The SAP Portal can access Vignette through iViews, KM in the Portal offers an API (the Repository Framework API) to which Vignette could connect or via which you could connect Vignette and this would e.g. make Vignette searchable trough the SAP Portal.

You see the tendency, right?

If Vignette wants to search (and before this they will have to index and crawl) KM repositories, the connectivity question lies on Vignette's side.

Regards,

Karsten

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Karsten -

Thanks. I guess the general answer is that it can be done.

I wasn't really sure how open the KM would be, but it sounds like it is possible.

I would think that it is. Surely, SAP expects some companies to not be exclusively SAP (not that they wouldn't mind it.)

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Hi Eric,

yep. I also assume it's possible.

I was only trying to say that we concentrate on integrating, not on being integrated...

Cheers,

Karsten

former_member110461
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Karsten,

The thing I was saying about webdav - it is a protocol the runs over http(s) and stands for web based distributed authoring and versioning. Basically it is an internet standard that may vendors including SAP / Microsoft (web folders) / Documentum support and can be used to access documents from a webdav server over http. The portal is a webdav server (and client) which means that other programs can access the KM repositories via webdav. So if Vignette has a built in webdav client, then it can access the KM repositories.

Paul