Perform Check In operation using DFC only if the document content has been modified

Hello Everybody ,

There is a requirement for allowing the Check-In of a document only if the content of the document being checked in has been modified.

Can you propose a solution as to how to go about this. Does Documentum provide any out of the box solutions which check ins a document only if the content has been modified

Thank You

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DCTM_Guru

There is no out of the box solution for this - you will need customize your app (eg Webtop). One way to do this is to calculate a hash key for the content. There are plenty of algorithms on the internet to do this. Then always allow "check-in" so that you can calculate the hash key as part of the checkin process. After the file is checked in, compare the hash key of the CURRENT version with previous version. If the key is the same, delete the CURRENT version.

AnujAlex

Thanks Johnny .

We will try this approach and let you if it worked out.

Francois Dauberlieu

To add to Johnny's reply

That will only work if you only allow checking in as a new version, if you allow checking in as the same version, then you will delete it when deleting the current version. Be careful

DCTM_Guru

Good point Francois - I should be more explicit on my assumptions. If you allow save as same version, you actually would NOT have a previous version to compare to.

Francois Dauberlieu

Yeap, you've got to be careful, we're not all at your level, actually, reading these forums, you're certainly one of the most knowledgeable, yoo've got to dumb it down for us