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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

18.1 How Automatic Property Extraction Works


Internally Documentum uses the following two object types for managing Automatic property extraction for XML elements:

  • dm_xml_application (supertype: dm_folder): Used for creating a folder under the \System\Applications folder in Docbase to store the XML configuration objects (dm_xml_config).

  • dm_xml_config (supertype: dm_document): Specifies the XML configuration file to be used for the specified XML application.

The property extraction rules need to be specified within the XML configuration file. Once you have created the XML application folder and saved the XML configuration file within it, you need to set the a_category attribute of the content file. DFC queries this attribute and detects the Automatic Property Extraction rules to be applied to the content file based on its XML configuration file. You, however, need to ensure that the dm_xml_application folder and the dm_xml_config application file have exactly the same names, since Documentum...