VolumeID and NodeID

Don_Winston_(don.winston@ferc_(Delete)_845608)

Can anyone give a brief explanation about what a volume id and a node id are. If I want to add a document to a particular library I use the accessLibrary() to get the library information that contains it's volume id and node id. I then use this in the addDocument() method. By the way I use Java.

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Application_Services_FUJITSU_(fuji_ware04_-_(delet

VolumeID and NodeID together uniquely identify a Livelink-object (document,... whatever). But as far as I know NodeID alone also uniquely identifies a Livelink-object, so you do not really need the VolumeID. We asked OpenText several times what the VolumeID was for but they never answered. I think it is a thing from the past, and that they never bothered to remove it. If you study the database then you'll also notice that some fields have a different meaning than the name that is used.

Mike_Oliver_(ollie_(Delete)_137504)

The VolumeID is used extensively within Livelink 8, it is not an artifact. In general it is used to group records for performance reasons. Documents and folders in the Enterprise are in one Volume or share a VolumeID. This allows searches and selects to work within one of these logical volumes and ignore records in another logical volume.