Where can I find the CTS SDK for Doumentum 6.0 SP1?

Where can I find the CTS SDK for Doumentum 6.0 SP1? I want to create a plug-in for Bentley MicroStation V8 XM edition so that it can create PDF renditions of drawings stored in Documentum. I would like to create these renditons using a menu option and the CTS framework.

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Hartmut_Clausen

There is a "Content Transformation Services Pro le Modi cation Guide" available in Powerlink under Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ D ~ Documentation > Documentum C > Content Transformation Services > 6.5 & Service Packs

That document also mentions a "Content Transformation Services Product Development Guide" which I could not find.

HTH, Hartmut

mokryd

Thank you for your reply. I did see that and have read it. It seems to be documentation on how to add the functionality in to CTS, but I need the guide on how to create the plug-in that DTS calls send messages to. The plug-in is what actually creates the PDF rendition and places it in the pre-determined location for DTS to pick and place back in the docbase as a rendition. In short I am looking for the SDK that was used to create the MS Office plugins used by DTS to provide PDF renditions of Office documents.

Francois Dauberlieu

Personally, I have bad experiences developing DTS plug-ins. It seems that the Documentum dev team isn't following much of the usually accepted good dev practices such as: A Service Pack only fix issues or a minor release only implements minor modifications.

In the past, between service packs, we had to redevelop our plugins (for MicroStation, AutoCAD and Smartsketch) a few times. That all between 5.3 SP1 and 5.3 SP5

Therefore, we gave up and developed our own CAD rendition application (on top of that, it also updates the title block in the CAD drawings from properties of the documents in Dctm and it is integrated with our DRAWbridge for the xRefs/Reference Files handling), named RENDERbridge.

It works with 5.3, 6.0 SP1 and 6.5

You might want to have a look at it (so you don't reinvent the wheel ;-) at http://www.btmsoftware.eu

Sorry for the shameless self-promotion

mszurap

Look at this topic on powerlink's forum, maybe it's helpful:

https://forums.emc.com/forums/thread.jspa?tstart=0&threadID=59397

There is a document CTS_Product_53_SPx_development.pdf which I don't know where can be found, but that should describe what you want.

mokryd

There is a document CTS_Product_53_SPx_development.pdf which I don't know where can be found, but that should describe what you want.

I have the document that you have mentioned and yesterday I got confirmation from Documentum that I can use it to develop plugins that will work with DTS 6.0 SP1. Thank you for all of your help.