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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

11.6 Summary


This chapter talked about Documentum object types and their attributes (properties). We went through detailed steps to create an object type in Docbase using the Documentum Application Builder tool. We saw some constraints in naming conventions for object types.

We then saw how to create a sample News Article object type and associate it with a Documentum lifecycle.

In the later half of the chapter we designed a few attributes of the sample News Article object type and discussed the detailed steps for creating attributes using Documentum Application Builder tool.

We touched upon usage of Value Assistance for displaying a pre-defined data set for object types' attributes and how to conditionally display different values based on certain conditions.

Value assistance can be used by providing a fixed set of hard-coded data or by querying objects and registered tables at run time.

We discussed how to create registered tables in Documentum and how to query them using value assistance.

We...