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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

11.3 Adding Attributes to an Object Type


Choose the object type in question within the DocApp and select Insert | Attribute. We will first take an example by creating the attribute cust_news_summary for the object type cust_newsarticle.

Fill in the relevant fields in the new attribute creation screen as shown in the figure 11.17.

Figure 11.17: Attribute General tab

11.3.1 Attribute Names

Similar to object type names, attribute names have certain restrictions that need to be carefully adhered to. Figure 11.18 lists down some limitations for attribute names.

11.3.2 Limitations of Object Type Attribute Names

Limitations

Should be in lowercase

Should not begin with: white space, single quote (') or a numeral

Should not begin with 'dm_', 'i_', 'r_', and 'a_' since Documentum internally uses these for its object attribute naming scheme

Should not have a name that matches with the following reserved words in Documentum: 'from', 'where' and 'select'

11.3.2.1 Label

The Label field will be the actual...