As I admire my own abilities to resurrect dead threads, I'd like to find out what, if any, solutions you each found. I am also representing a city which uses ESRI products, as well as, Laserfiche and the only option I've found is GeoDocs but I'm not convinced its as great as it looks. The software is a third party integration and consumes a Laserfiche user license, plus it only integrates with ArcGIS Online according to the website. Any one have experience with it?
I am with a county government, and being an ESRI and Laserfiche shop, we tried implementing geodocs a couple of years ago. That was when they utilized now defunct silverlight and flex apps, and it appears that they now have an html5 app. For what it was, it was pretty neat. The key feature in my mind was that it creates an index between your spatial features and the laserfiche documents, utilizing laserfiche metadata to do so.
Unfortunately, the project never really took off for us. The department that we set it up for doesn't do much in terms of laserfiche organization, so the search results that the app was returning weren't particularly useful. This was not a fault of the app though, just poor LF organization.
As I'm typing this of course, we are looking at giving geodocs or some kind of custom integration between GIS and LF another go. These things never die...
EDIT: And to your point on it only using AGOL, when we set it up, it did not use AGOL at all. We had a REST service setup on our ArcGIS Server that it utilized, and then weblink on the LF end. Looking through their sparse documentation on their website, that portion does not appear to have changed.
Andrew, I can't find your name to tag you so hopefully you are still a part of the community! Did you ever figure out a solution for the integration? If so, what was it? I am looking through the options currently.
I am interested in the same information. I work for a county highway district and we have both Laserfiche and ESRI technology which we deploy to end users via Geocortex and ArcGIS Online. I have found DocuNav's GeoDoc product and City Digital also provides some sort of Laserfiche/ESRI integration, but I don't think their product is branded. I also found via the Laserfiche Empower conference in Long Beach (February 7-10, 2017 Long Beach) that there is a way to complete the integration without a third party vendor using the SDK tools provided via Laserfiche. Documentation is sketchy so far and if you have any additional information I would be happy to hear.
Thank you,
Gail
We have linked Laserfiche to our proprietary business system and to our website via ColdFusion. It is possible to send SQL directly to the laserfiche database server. In our case we do one of three things;
Show a list of documents that match the search criteria
Run a command line command to open the document using the Laserfiche desktop client
Example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Laserfiche\Client\LF.exe" -L"Statelands" -W -E2143115
NOTE: The -W to use windows authentication, -E is for entry ID, -L is the repository name.
Provide a URL that opens a specific document via WebLink the Laserfiche web client
To see an example;
http://www.statelandsonline.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Comments.AppListLF&county=Multnomah
(click on a link to view an application in Weblink)
Eric Andersen PMP, ACP
Special Projects Manager/ Dept of State Lands
www.oregon.gov/dsl
ericanderson, This is very helpful, thank you for sharing! Weblink URL queries are a great and easy way to get started on an integration, as you can drill down to the repository, folder, or document level just by passing a URL. I do like your command line option with the client though...I'm sticking that one away for future use.