New to Documentum

My company starting using Documentum about 5 or 6 years ago. The Contractors who installed it -left with the documentation. Their is a small department who uses it for very basic tasks -they scan docs, and upload the PDF. I was asked to write a .NET app to track The files that go into Documentum, when and where the original docs are sent subsequent, and what Users interact with them in the process. Before developing another .NET baby in the wild, I suggested that Documentum might have such tracking capabilities already... well come to find out that there is a API library. my Question is two fold:
a. does Documentum provide for developing a custom user-interface so who/where/when can be entered by end-users
b. does Documentum provide for custom (user) attributes to where my custom user-interface can write who/where/when

If I am in the wrong forum or need to be making this inquiry in another location -please excuse me and please advise me accordingly.

thanks

davlyo

21-Sep-09 13:30 -4.00 GMT

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brownce

Definitely yes to both questions. What you need to do is get access to powerlink.emc.com. As a customer, your company should be able to do this. You'll find all the documentation on the various API's there.

ukdavo

A) does Documentum provide for developing a custom user-interface so who/where/when can be entered by end-users

Yes. Documentum functionality is exposed through web services (DFS) and a Java client library (DFC). EMC will also provide support for the CMIS standard (CMIS API is currently in beta).You can develop a custom UI against the aforementioned APIs using almost of today's popular UI frameworks - ASP.Net, JSF, WinForms, GWT, Silverlight, Flex/AIR, etc. EMC also offer a proprietary web framework imaginatively called Web Development Kit (WDK) that is used as the basis for several of EMC's web clients (Webtop, Web Publisher, etc).

does Documentum provide for custom (user) attributes to where my custom user-interface can write who/where/when

Yes. This is a very popular way of customising Documentum. You would typically define custom object types, each object type would be comprised of custom attributes. So for example, you could define a top level object type called "my_document" or "research_paper" or whatever you want that is based on the standard Documentum object type, dm_document. The my_document object type would inherit all of the attributes from dm_document such as "object_name", "title", "subject", "authors", etc. You could then add custom attributes that are relevant to your business (e.g. "document_number", "region", "department", etc).

I would suggest reading some of the documentation and/or taking some Documentum training to find out more about how you can develop/use the Documentum platform.

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