Insert dctm properties into word properties

pascal.ogil

Hello,

I need on checkin, to update the word document properties, with the value of the documentum properties.

I am working in Documentum 5.3, and Webtop.

Can you give some advice on how I can implement that?

Thanks

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shailshah

check out https://community.emc.com/message/7585

Francois Dauberlieu

Sorry for the shameless self promotion

Have a look at our OFCbridge at http://www.btmsoftware.eu. That's exactly what it does. It can be triggered manually or automatically upon checkin, import, or in the lifecycle/workflows

Also, note that it can do it both ways which is interesting when importing documents...

pascal.ogil

I'm seeking some free solutions, and I think I will try to implement a light solution by myself.

Don't you have others experience?

thanks

smarcon

Hi shimrod,

Have a look at the Jacob (Java Com Bridge) library. I personnaly think it's the best way for Java applications to make COM calls.

http://danadler.com/jacob/

http://www.land-of-kain.de/docs/jacob/

Documentum itself uses Jacob in their DTS/ADTS modules.

I've recently developed some webservice that write properties (and images) into Word documents and it works well (as well as COM calls can).

You may also have a look at COM4J which I did not try.

Regards,

Stephane

pascal.ogil

Hello,

It seems that the lib is not for commercial purpose. And I am working for a client, in a commercial relationship .

So I think it is a wrong way.

smarcon

Hi,

Where did you read a commercial use is not allowed?

[...]Licensing Change All limitations on commercial use of JACOB have been removed and it is now being developed under a BSD license at Sourceforge.net.[..] (extract from http://danadler.com/jacob/WhatsNew.html)

Regards

Stephane

pascal.ogil

Ok, it looks fine.

Did you already test it?

smarcon

Yep, actually I've just recently released a webservice running on top of JBoss which injects data into Word documents. It really works well and I was quite surprised with it. The only thing I would advise is having a deep, complete look at the documentation, especially on the memory release mechanism and multi-threaded environments' advices.

Stephane

pascal.ogil

OK I will pay attention on this points.

By now, I have to do some tiny tests to evaluate the costs to do this.

Thank you

pascal.ogil

Hello,

I am finally using Jacob, and learn from Tutorial from Internet.

But I don't see any mention of manipulating word properties.

Do you have a snippet of code to show me how to access to the word properties?

Thanks a lot