DM5 "Publish" -like functionality

Hi,

In the past I've written code against Hummingbird's DM5. In DM5, there is a feature where you can mark a document version as "Published". This means that for normal use people should use this version. It is useful in situations where a content author might be working on a newer version and wants to store his work-in-progress in the DM, but not have regular users use it as part of business. Later, when the author has completed the work on the new version, they will set the "Published" flag on the new version and the users can start to use the new version.

Does anyone have any experience with a similar situation in WorkSite? How do customers accomplish this with WorkSite. I haven't seen anything similar in WorkSite, although I have seen in a sample implementation a "Completed" field in a profile. Is it up to the customer to add this feature with a custom field?

Thanks,
Nate S.

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jny

Worksite has an Add-on functionaility called Publish Document. It allows you to decide which documents are to become part of the corporate knowledge base. It works with the WorkKnowledge Indexing Engine to designate documents for indexing. The documents are indexed and the index is stored in the Autonomy repository. They are then searchable using the WorkSite Web Client 4.1 or later.

You may check whether a document is published/indexable or not by querying GetAttributeByID(imProfileIndexable). If it returns true, it's published; false, it's not.

Is this what you are looking for?

Migrateduser

As far as the Database is concerned, the publish flag is a boolean field for the document, which can be shown as a column in the worklist. If you don't use the WorkKnowlage engine, and don't imagine you ever would, you could use the Publish function to set this flag for your purposes. Alternatively, there are other custom boolean fields you could use as a "Published" field, which you could add to the document profile dialog and document view for this.

Richard

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