Hello everybody,
I haven't found the functionality to import a smart container from repository by Composer. Is there the ability to do it?
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Hi Sergey,
No, unfortunately the ability to import a smart container model into a Composer project has not been implemented as of the most current release of Composer ( 6.5 SP2).
Kristy
It currently does not.
We believed nobody would create Smart Containers programmatically and Composer has an editor for creating them so it did not seem critical to allow importing them from the Repository.
Ramin,
I beg to differ, especially in a developer forum. Let me explain
As developers, we have multiple products running on top of Documentum, some of those products might (or not) share some components therefore, when creating a new Documentum Project for a new product in Composer, it would be more than nice to be able to reuse directly some components that are already in the Docbase instead of having to fiddle around to put them in.
To may point of view, any artifact in a project should be 'importable' from the Docbase
My 2 cents.
Hi Ramin,
I 100% agree with Francois. If it can be done, people will have done it.
In fact they do not need to have created one programatically. I have been in sites where they do not have access any more to a repository configuration sources. What is my client going to say when I have to tell them... "oops sorry I have to spend an extra day on site taking a copy of your config..."
they are not going to be happy and I sure as heck would not be as I generally have to fly and stay over in hotels!!!
maybe that is execssive... maybe I should not post after a 18 hour day on the road!!!
I do appreciate that ye have budget and time constraints, so features less likely to be used get pushed out but please do add this to the feature list
regards
Brian
I actually did not mean that you should RECREATE a Smart Container everytime you want to use it in a new project. Our initial thinking was that you would repurpose the Composer Project that defined the Smart Container instead of reimporting the object from a Repository.
We looked at a Composer Project similar to Java source code that is preserved and reused; DAR and Docbase objects are created from that "source". In that model you USUALLY would not carry .class files around and decompile them to reuse the Java code; you would hang on to the Java source code iteself.
However, good feedback and I will pass this along to our Product Manager.
