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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

15.3 Reapplying Presentation Files


One of the most frequent scenarios in websites is changes required in the layout of web pages. Technically, this would require modifications made at the presentation layer (presentation/XSL files in Documentum) and not within Template files or Rules files. Once the Presentation file has been modified and its altered version is checked into the Docbase, what happens to the content that already exists in the Docbase? Would its rendition be automatically updated as per the modified presentation file? Definitely for new content that is created going forward, correct renditions will be generated by the system. However, in running websites there could be a lot of existing content and it all needs to be updated as per the modified presentation layout.

Do not worry—Documentum provides a feature called as reapply presentation in such cases, allowing you to update renditions of existing content as per modified presentation files.

Following are some easy steps to achieve...