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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

Modeling and Definition


Modeling and definition of processes share several aspects and are discussed together in this section to avoid repetition. Modeling maps the requirements for the business process to Documentum terminology to facilitate definition. The model

is defined in a Documentum repository as a workflow template using the Workflow Manager.

A workflow template is saved as an object of type dm_process in the repository. Creating a workflow template is a privileged operation and requires coordinator capability and Sysadmin/Superuser privileges. Saving, installation, and uninstallation of a template require write permission on the template or Sysadmin/Superuser privileges.

While most of the process definition involves details about activities, performers, and flows, some aspects are specified at the workflow template level:

  1. 1. Owner: Initially, the creator of the workflow template is the owner but the owner can be reassigned later.

  2. 2. Default alias set: The set of aliases that...