CMIS Integration

Introduction

CMIS is the e-Democracy Committee Management System for Local Government. It has a comprehensive member’s database which stores contact and other information such as election history, images, biography and a register of interests. Astun have written a Python script to download this information in order that Councils who have CMIS can configure the My House page to include councillor information e.g.

Pre-Requisites

• iShare v5.4.0 - This version includes the required version of Python together with the Scripts and XML etc. for this integration.
• Python 2.7 (including SUDS Library) - included in the Astun 3rd Party Installer. The SUDS Library is required to communicate with SOAP Web Services.

The following steps describe how to configure iShare to link to CMIS.

• Create a Job to Refresh the CMIS data
• Update .MAP file for Councillor Ward Layer
• Configure My House Councillor Ward Layer
• Style My House Councillor Content