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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

3.10 Registered Tables


Most applications maintain some application tables in order to store data specific to the application. These application tables may contain records that Documentum clients need access to. For example, a dropdown in a Documentum client application might need to display a list of all the countries in the world from an external database table, so that the content author can choose one while creating content.

The external database table is not known to the Content Server until you register it. In short, registered tables are the normal RDBMS tables that the Content Server is aware of, in spite of them not being part of the Docbase.

Documentum creates a dm_registered object for the 'Registered' table, allowing developers to use DQL queries to fetch the information from the table.

The dm_registered object contains information about the name of the table, table owner, table columns, and access rights defining who has access to query the table and perform operations like insert...