DFC: reading record's retention policy information

Hi,

I have been using DQL for retrieving retention policy information of a record in RPS ( reading from dmc_rps_retainer ).

I am wondering if we could do the same thing using DFC methods with some filters?

for example, I would like to get retention date, or qualification date for records that have a "status" = "something". I can do that fairly easily using some joins in DQL. not sure how i can do it using DFC calls

thanks.

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clonak

Hi there Ericl:

Thank you for posting your quesiton in the community.

Your DQL question is technical in nature and would be better suited for the Developer Community.

Can anyone in the Developer Community assist Eric with the retention date or qualification date using DFC calls??

Thank you,

Kelly

lastnitescurry

DQL is the way to go.

If you were to try a DFC solution, you would still need a query to get a set of documents to work with. And for each result get a DFC object and the get you RPS values. This will work but the performance will be worse compared to a well crafted DQL.

The only reason to goto DFC, is if you need something which is not easy to retrive with DQL, for example a permit on the object.

ericl

Thanks Brian,

so DFC is for working against single object. (once the object_id is obtained)

DQL is used to retrieve a collection of information.

are these correct assumptions?

ericl

another question..

how do i get retention_date , qualification_Date....or any information from RPS using DFC method?

thanks

lastnitescurry

Yes you could do this. And your code will work. However it will not scale very well.... As I mentioned already, if you can get all your attributes with a DQL query then that is a better option.... for more dig around for Documentum performance tuning presentations and whitepapers.

lastnitescurry

Having not had to worry about retention policy, the following is a guess, but it would be where I would start

file:///D:/DevRef/Docs_DCTM/DFC_6.5_JavaDocs/api/com/documentum/fc/client/IDfRetainer.html

That is the DFC API java doc, should have been install with DFC, if not download it. It should be in

c:\Program Files\Documentum\help

Suggest you head over to power link and download some Documentum manuals, you will need the following

Documentum_6.5_DQL_Reference.pdf

Documentum_6.5_Object_Reference.pdf
Content_Server_6.5_Administration_Guide.pdf
Content_Server_6.5_Fundamentals.pdf

For Web Development
WDK_6.5_Development_Guide.pdf
WDK_6.5_Deployment_Guide.pdf
WDK_6.5_Tutorial.pdf
Webtop_6.5_Deployment_Guide.pdf

Also google for Documentum coding samples