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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 19. Working with Workflows

We have already created a custom lifecycle and associated it with our custom News Article object type in Chapters 11 and 12. This means that content created from the News Article object type (and template) can be routed through the different states of the lifecycle, such as WIP, Staging, and Approved. Have you ever thought about how content automatically progresses through the different lifecycle states? You can certainly select content items and manually promote, demote or power-promote them to move them across various linear lifecycle states. However, in an actual scenario your business users would want an automated process to achieve this. What the business teams typically want is a controlled and automated mechanism whereby content created by a group of users can be sent across electronically to a reviewer group for an initial round of review. The number of sequential/parallel groups of reviewers or approvers could be specific to a particular business...