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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By : Pawan Kumar
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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By: Pawan Kumar

Overview of this book

This is a complete study guide including study material and practice questions to prepare for the EMC Proven Professional certification Exam E20-120. It can also serve Documentum beginners and practitioners as a handy guide and quick reference to the technical fundamentals that is fully up to date for Documentum 5.3. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.EMC Documentum is a leading enterprise content management technology platform that helps enterprises to streamline the capture, processing, and distribution of business information including documents, records, e-mails, web content, images, reports, and digital assets. It can also automate entire business processes in accordance with business rules. EMC Proven Professional is an exam-based certification program, which introduced a new EMC Proven Content Management Application Developer (EMCAD) track in early 2007. The first exam in this track is Content Management Foundations (CMF) Associate-level Exam, with exam code E20-120, which tests knowledge about technical fundamentals of Documentum. This book is a study guide to help you prepare for this exam with hundreds of practice questions and an efficient exam-preparation strategy.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Documentum Content Management Foundations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Managing DocApps


In a typical development cycle, a DocApp is created in a development repository. When the customizations are ready to be tested, the DocApp is archived (also said to be serialized) onto the file-system. Then the DocApp archive is used to install the DocApp in a test environment.

This process is repeated until the customization is considered ready for prime time. At this point, this DocApp archive can be installed in a production repository. If the customization is a part of a product, the DocApp archive is included in the product distribution.

Creating and Modifying DocApps

DocApps are created and managed via Documentum Application Builder (DAB). A Superuser privilege is required for creating a DocApp. The following screenshot shows the main screen of DAB with an open DocApp. The left pane organizes the contents of the DocApp. The status bar at the bottom shows information about the state of the connection to the repository.

The primary purpose of a DocApp is to package objects...