How to update job using composer without creating a new one.

Hello Experts,

I am trying to update some jobs in the docbase using composer. But when I am installing the composer project it is creating new job objects instead of updating the existing ones. I have selected the overwrite option while installing.

I suppose this happens because previously the jobs were installed as a different composer project and now I am installing it as different project. So the job objects get installed in different locations and hence duplicates are created.

Can anyone suggest if there is any approach where we can overwrite the existing jobs and not create duplicate ones using composer.

Thanks in Advance !!!

Arijit

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avksd

Hi , what exactly you are trying to update in the job .. Is it dm_job object or dm_method object ?

could you pls elaborate what do you want to update ?

arijit

They are all job objects. I am changing some attributes like method_arguments.

Alvaro_de_Andres

1. Import job object in composer

2. update stuff

3. right click your job artifact, properties, set to overwrite matching objects

4. install dar in repository

arijit

Alvaro,

Does not work. It creates new job objects in the location where composer project is installed.

Antal Bos

Hi,

For our project we update object properties with an preinstall.ebs and postinstall.ebs script.

See some example scripts in %Documentum\Server\product\X.X\install\admin

What you see is documentum docbasic script and you are free to do what ever you want during DAR installation

For a Postinstall use: Sub PostInstall(docbaseName As String, userName As String, loginTicket As String)

For a Preinstall use: Sub PreInstall(docbaseName As String, userName As String, loginTicket As String)

Composer searches for those Sub's.

Steps for a postinstall (preinstall is the same):

1. Create Composer project

2. Create a Procedure Artifact with name postinstall.procedure

3. Load the .ebs script with the PostInstall Sub in the procedure

4. Get the properties of the project

5. Go to Documentum Project -> Install Procedures

6. Select the postinstall procedure in the Post-installation procedure field

You can also make the ebs script to run a custom dm_method where you do all the changes in Java/DFC.

Hopefully this will help you.

Best regards,

Antal