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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

19.2 Setting Up a Custom Workflow Template


We will now create the above custom workflow template using the Documentum Workflow Manager tool.

Follow the steps mentioned below to create, save, validate, and install your custom workflow template:

  1. 1. Launch Workflow Manager and log in to Docbase as an administrator. Once you have been authenticated, the blank workflow template editor screen is shown to you, as in figure 19.3.

    Figure 19.3: Blank editor for creation of a workflow template

    Note that the start (Initiate) and End activities are already available in any workflow template that you create using this tool. The system prevents you from removing these two activities from the workflow.

  2. 2. A workflow template is created by combining numerous Activities (which translate into workflow tasks at run time) and connecting them by flows. You then add packages to the flows to route the content via workflows. Do not be worried about these terminologies right now. We will cover them in detail as we continue...