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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

Locating Objects


The previous chapters showed how to create and modify objects in the repository. We saw that various mechanisms could be used for this purpose including programming and interactive scripts using IAPI or IDQL. However, the most common mechanism of interacting with the repository remains applications, particularly Webtop.

The same can be said about locating documents or, more generally, objects within the repository. Webtop provides one of the easiest available interfaces for accessing content within the repository. Typically, consumers of information are quite business savvy and the alternatives to Webtop for searching documents are less desirable to them.

There are two key ways of locating objects within the repository:

  1. 1. Navigating through the browser tree to a known path

  2. 2. Searching using the words that may be found within the metadata or content

The navigation mechanism is used when the user knows (or can guess) where an object is located within the folder hierarchy...