Plugins

The application comes with a plugins feature system that offers an easy way to customize and extend OpenKM functionalities. By default application comes with general purpose plugins implementation, these can be disabled, changed by others or increased in number depending the type of the plugin. For example in antivirus plugin has sense disable or replace by other, on case text extractor has sense disable or increase the number of available text extractors.

Plugins are shown in a table structure:

Plugin family name
Name	Class name	Status

Plugin families:

Plugin family	Module	Description
Automation validations	Automation	Validations are used in automation feature. More information at: Automation Creating your own Automation Validation
Automation actions	Automation	Validations are used in automation feature. More information at: Automation Creating your own Automation Action
Template parsers	OCR Zone	Data extraction parser used in OCR Zone. More information at: OCR templates Creating your own OCR Data Capture plugin
Template control parsers	OCR Zone	Document identification check point used in OCR Zone. More information at: OCR templates Creating your own OCR Validation Control plugin
Option select values	Metadata	Retrieve select values from server side logic. For example helps on retrieving data from third-party system. More information at: Metadata Metadata Select field Creating your own Option Select Values plugin
Field validators	Metadata	Validation based on server side logic. Helps on implementing complex validation logics that are not covered from default UI validators. More information at: Metadata Metadata Validator element Creating your own Form Validator plugin
Principal adapters	Authentication	Authentication adapters are used to retrieve users and roles information. For example connect to some LDAP, or external database that stores users and roles. More information at: Creating your own Principal Adapter
Version number adapters	Document	Implements version number logic. More information at: Creating your own Version Number Adapter
Document converters	Conversion	Conversion service is used to convert document to other formats. More information at: Creating your own Document Converter
Metadata adapters	UI	Visualization logic for metadata UI. More information at: Creating your own Stack Metadata Adapter ( deprecated )
Text extractor	Search engine	Text extractor based on document MIME TYPE. More information at: Creating your own Text extractor
Antivirus	Document	Antivirus checker. Helps on integrating with any command line antivirus. More information at: Creating your own Antivirus Analyzer plugin

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OpenKM 7.1

Plugins