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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

13.1 Creating a Template File


The first step before creating a Template is to create a category (or taxonomy) in Web Publisher with which the template will be associated.

It is wise to first sort out all the kinds of web pages on the website and then come up with the numerous categories of content. Based on each of the categories, Templates can be created so that content authors know exactly which category to look into in order to find the relevant Templates to create web page content.

  1. 1. Log in to Web Publisher as an administrator or a web developer user. Note that Web Publisher Templates reside in the Site Manager | Templates folder within the Docbase. Go to Site Manager | Templates in Web Publisher and click on File | New | Category. The New Category screen is as shown in the figure 13.3.

    Figure 13.3: Creating a category for templates

    Provide an informative and self-explanatory name for the category and click on Finish. If required, set up security settings for the category by going...