<![CDATA[<img class="emoticon" src="/images/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" alt="" />]]> Do you have any comments or questions about Composer?
Documentum Composer is an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the popular eclipse open source IDE. It has been specifically designed for building applications for the Documentum Repository.
Documentum is the first content management vendor to bring a standard development lifecycle to enterprise content management by allowing the developer to manage their Documentum Artifacts with source control, share them across a team, develop them with standard editors and reliably install or upgrade them with the Repository Installer.
Composer also provides standard web tools for discovering, developing and publishing Documentum Foundation Services and clients.
Any chance of a screencast (preferably with voice) that explains integrated development and asset management capabilities. I want to work on some TBOs/SBOs/DFS-services and also assets like, Workflows, Groups, Types, etc... all through a single interface -- TIA
Hi binduwavel,
I can't provide a screencast I'm afraid.
Instead I have attached a copy of the Composer User's Guide which
should give you a good overview of the Repository artifacts that we
support. Note users and groups are the domain of DA not Composer as
they are usual the subjectof some larger, enterprise-wide provisioning
system. FYI Composer 6.5 added support for smart container and
lightweight sysobject artifacts.
HTH
_Paul
I've also attached an internal
slidedeck outlining a very early version of the dfs integration.
Things have moved on since I produced this but the basic features
remain the same.
Lastly, you can read my blog post here on developing bof modules within the context of Repository project. This is a fairly general overview but can be re-purposed for use with TBOs, SBOs, aspects, etc as they are all based on the BOF framework.
I had reviewed the docs and not found what I was looking for. I'll look over your blog post, thanks a bunch!
Hello.
Does anyone know how to install and use the smart container in D6.5?? I can create/and install the smart container from within the composer but it is not shown in webtop??
In the next few weeks, I'll be putting together an article or Flash demo on how to instantiate a Smart Container and expose it in Webtop.
hi ,
I am using Composer 6.5 and facing problem conditional value assistance.
I have three drop downs A , B and C
A has values x ,y ,z
B has values t, u, v
now i need a docbasic expression which satisfy the below condition:
when i select "x" or "z" of A and any of B's value , my C dropdown get not displayed
whereas if i select "y" of A and any of B's value , my C dropdown get displayed.
I am very much new to Composer 6.5, so if you would help me out , i will be very thankful to you .
Hi,
My questions are following:
Why is composer not just an eclipse plugin, so we can continue to use our eclipse version and use it along with our collection of installed plugins ?
Why is composer not running on Linux or other eclipse platforms, do you have plans to make it run on Linux (which seems running much smoothly java applications) ?
Thanks,
Best Regards,
Björn.
It may be worthy to mention here that We had successfully integrated composer into IBM RAD 7.0 and so far its working fine , So basically you can call it as a Eclipse Plugin only
Hi Bjorn,
We released Composer as a complete package for supportability and ease of installation purposes.
Since we ship the entire environment in one package, we can guarantee that when a user installs this package, it will run as is, since we imbed Eclipse 3.2.
As for why we don't support Linux, it was a compatibility testing exercise we chose not to take on for 6.5.
Hi saurabhatrey,
For the customization that you are trying to do, I would use WDK customizations. I don't believe Composer supports the type of UI field hide/display that you're trying to accomplish.
Hi David.
Thank you...I'm looking forward to read your article.
The decision to ship a product as opposed to a set of features & plugins is kept under constant review.
In the meantime you could try adapting ganymede instructions on my blog:-
http://paulcwarren.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/documentum-composer-and-ganymede/
_PAul
Is there a way to deploy only Business objects to the docbase without installing all artifacts?
Is this possible with the installation parameter files?
This can be usefull when developing BOF modules.
The scenario I have in mind:
- write the BOF code
-click on a button eclipse/composer so the jar files are automatically created (with ant script)
-automated installation for de bof modules only
Hi wsommer,
Have you checked out Paul's latest blog entry about using Composer to test BOF modules? It probably would meet your requirements:
http://paulcwarren.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/using-documentum-composer-to-streamline-the-bof2-development-process/
My approach to this is to break artifacts out into multiple Composer projects, that way I can have a separate, discrete Composer project for core object types, another one for BOF, another one for workflow and lifecycle, etc. This allows me to redeploy the BOF docapp without having to redeploy the other docapps.
Composer looks for JAR artifacts in a well-defined location underneath the /content subdirectory. It is possible to write your Ant script to deploy the BOF JARs in this same location. Then you can use Ant to build the JARs, then use Composer to deploy them. You can even script the Composer deployment using headless Eclipse mode.
You may also want to have a look at my new article, Introduction to Documentum Composer.
Jason Duke,
Blue Fish Development Group
Did you manage to write the article?
Cheers
Ayyanar.M
hi,
this is rakesh here,
i am stuck in creating new docbasic method in composer, i am getting follwoing errror
" Unable to create editor ID com.emc.ide.artifact.method.editor.DctmMethodEditor: Could not load artifact from file /Deve env project/Artifacts/createobjectstito.method "
also getting error for command " no command has been define "
can you help in this.
Hi Rakesh,
Since this issue is pretty specific to your Composer Project, I suggest you log a support case for this. They will be able to take your Composer Project, take a look at exactly what you're trying to do, and make recommendations on how to correct it.
Our company is new to Documentum development. We are looking for some tuturials and/or sample Composer projects that we can download. Any suggestions?
Hi dannis,
If you are new to Composer, I recommend you take a look at the following resources, in this order:
1. Documentum Composer Overview, including a Flash demo (https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-1267)
2. Browse through the Composer D6.5 SP1 User Guide, available on SubscribeNet, in the same directory as Documentum Composer.
3. View this recorded webinar (https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-1878)
4. Walk through our new Composer D6.5 SP1 Tutorial titled "Building a Documentum Application tutorial". It is also available on SubscribeNet in the same directory as Documentum Composer.
We have other documentation available, such as a Quick Start Guide, and various articles here on EDN, that you can take a look at as well. I suggest you start with the above 4 resources, and work from there.
Thanks!
Hello All,
We are using D6 Repository & CS setup, We are planing to user Documentum Composer.but I am un able to find specific version of D6 Composer.
From download Center login , I can only get Composer from D6 SP1 onwards,
Can some one provide me the Link for Documentum 6 Composer ? or D6 SP1 Composer will work with Documentum 6 ?
Mitesh Kothari
Hi Mitesh,
D6 SP1, SP2... will all work against D6 docbases.
As a rule of thumb a service pack contains bug fixes only and is backward compatible with its initial release. We would recommend that you always to use the latest service pack release for your codeline.
Thanks for resolving my doubt.
Hi!
You don't need to have any doubts. I have been using Composer 6.5 on a 6.0 Repository for a while without problems. I did that, because the 6.5 Composer did the Installation to the Repository a lot faster.
Hello,
i try the tutorial from the document "Building a Documentum Application tutorial" but it works not completly correct. If i test the application and want to assign the lifecycle to the object i get the error message:
Attaching lifecycle failed[DM_POLICY_E_ERROR_1600]error: "The User Actions Proc failed. Details:Error saving the sysobject: [DM_ACL_E_CANT_CREATE_INSTANCE]error: "Cannot create an instance dm_450007d980000d06_80000501 of template ACL claim_processors based on alias set claim_aliasset."
I do every step like described in the document, twice. But it doesn't works.
Has also someone this problem with the tutorial? Has someone the tutorial tested successfully?
Thank you.
Best regards,Oliver
I found a solution for my problem.
I set default values to the install parameters "processing_parameter" and "adjudication_parameter".
Then it's not necessary to set "Override Values" in the installer wizard (Install Document Project ...).
That works. Now i can apply the lifecycle to the object without error.
Maybe there is an error/problem with the installer wizard in the composer.
Greets,
Oliver
Hi Okuessner,
Could you please attach or link to the tutorial and I will have a look at it to see what the problem is.
Many thanks
