Importing from Open Text's Content Server

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tamjak

I apologize if I have posted to the wrong forum.  I haven't even installed Alfresco yet, but I want to plan out what is needed to happen. I have around 6GB of data in Content Server that I can can export using XML export.  The output is in XML format.  Does the Alfresco Bulk import tool allow you import XML files from another ECM platform?  Obviously not everything would be transferable, but would documents work?  What about users and groups?  It's no fun being a newbie when you've an expert for so long on a similar product.

afaust

Hello,

being a bit pedantic here: the bulk import tool allows to import any kind of a file, so XML from another ECM platform is not a problem.
BUT, you are definitely talking about not just importing but also evaluating the file to recreate the logical structures from the old ECM system within Alfresco. This is something that the bulk import tool almost most likely does not support. This would require some form of customization / development to properly process the XML and create the appropriate (maybe not identical) structure based on Alfresco concepts.

What is transferable fully depends on what can be reasonably extracted from the XML. If it is a full export, I'd assume everything is transferable as long as there is an Alfresco concept that is similar in nature to the correspondong concept of the source ECM.

Regards
Axel