Reflect document properties in Folder properties

Hi,

I have the following problem. I'd like to reflect the (common) properties of documents in the properties of the folder these documents are in. How is this possible without impacting the object model of my documentum system ?

Thanks.

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DCTM_Guru

Two ways that I can think of - 1) copy those values from document to folder (although I'm not sure how you would reconcile different values from different documents, unless you defined the attributes as repeating) or 2) customize the folder attributes component to query for these values of documents linked to the folder.

rohit.khattar

I believe making it a repeatable attribute would add more complexity rather than solving the original problem statement as there can be many documents inside a single folder and many documents can be link to a single folder.

Before designing a solution , you need to take care of all the document operations as your folder property will be affected by the change in common document properties so u need to take care of following cases

linking a document

moving

copying

deleting

unlink

Can you give a thought of using aspects , I do not know much of it , just a food for thought . Using aspects you dont have to update your current object model.