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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

Chapter 13. Working with Web Publisher Template Files

Once you have created your custom object type and included it as an acceptable object type in your custom lifecycle, you are all set to go ahead and create a Template for the object type. Recall our earlier discussions about templates and object types: object types are the definitions for objects with information such as creator of object, last modified time, title, subject, description, and some custom attributes.

Whenever an object is created from a particular object type, it inherits all its attributes and allows users to assign specific values for each attribute. An object type simply serves as a template for all real-time objects created from it. However, this covers just the metadata or properties for objects. What about the actual content data of such objects (web pages), such as the associated images, the paragraphs/text abstracts, associated hyperlinks and other pieces of information that can be classified as actual content...