This week we’ve been working on integrating a custom application to work with our ECM system. We’ve been looking for some solutions on how to upload custom metadata to the system, and were not able to find any so we are resorting to creating a custom solution using the system’s API. The API allows us to create custom applications that integrate with the system and allow us to make changes to the settings, create users, create groups, and even upload and download files. Creating a custom application will also allow us to explore integrating it with our frontend demo that we have been working on.

Also this week we were able to integrate the ECM with Microsoft Active Directory. This will allow us to have a single source of truth for all users and groups and will allow our work to integrate with Raytheon’s systems more easily. Active directory also allows us to add single-sign-on functionality to the system which means that if you are logged in with the same Windows account on your computer, you don’t even need to sign into the ECM system and it is all handled automatically.