If you have just started using Documentum, remember an important rule of thumb—start thinking of everything in the Documentum system as an object. Folders within which documents are stored are objects, documents created are themselves objects, workflows used to get the documents reviewed are objects, and in fact the users creating the documents are also objects!
Too many objects around? It might take a little while to get used to this philosophy, but very soon you will start realizing its importance.
Documentum is an object-oriented system and every object in Documentum belongs to an object type. Internally, the Content Server uses the object type as a template to create various instances of objects. An object type is composed of several attributes that describe the various objects created from it. We shall cover object types and attributes via detailed examples in Chapter 11.
Too much jargon for now? Let us take an example to simplify things:
A user creates an article that...