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Issue #57 January, 2006
Welcome to the January, 2006 edition of D2D, a monthly newsletter geared toward the Documentum Developer Community. D2D will provide you with technical know-how, guide you toward new content on developer.documentum.com and keep you abreast of Documentum news and events.

Need a text version? E-mail the Developer Program with D2D:TXT as the subject line and we will send you the text version in the future.

And The Winner Is...

In December we ran a contest in conjunction with the folks at the Bluefish dm_developer website where you could win a Bluefish Limited Edition iPod Nano, just by going to our audio page and downloading any one of our mp3 clips. We had an overwhelming response from you, our developer community. The winner of the drawing was Sherwin Harris from Brigham Young University. Congratulations Sherwin.

Look for more contests and food for your iPod over the next few months!

A Little Less Conversation?

A little more action! Now you can ask questions and make comments to articles, tips and code snippets on the Documentum Developer website. Using our comments system you can leave feedback, submit a bug, troubleshoot an issue, suggest alternatives or chat with your fellow developers and the Developer Program team.
Starting this month, at the end of all new articles you will find a Comment link. Simply click it and start typing. We will be listening to what you have to say, passing on any important product feedback and responding to your questions and remarks. Want an example? Check out the end of this article.

Of course if you would like to contact us directly, or have content to submit, you can always email us. We'd love to hear from you!

New Content

Enabling Display Custom Attributes in Webtop Object Listing Components
This article discusses the process of displaying custom attribute columns in the webtop object listing components such as objectlist and homecabinet_classic. A sample implementation of the WDK interface com.documentum.web.form.control.databound.ICustomAttributeDataHandler, used to display custom attributes, is provided.

Launching the PDF Annotation Services from Webtop
This article shows how to add an action to Webtop to launch the PDF Annotation Services from the streamline view within the folder/browsing view and from within the inbox view.

Adding Menu Items to the Menubar in Webtop 5.3
This article discusses the process of adding custom menu items to the menubar in Webtop 5.3. The menubar JSP structure has changed slightly in Webtop 5.3 and this article would benefit developers trying to migrate from WDK 5.2.x to 5.3.

Using Accelerated Content Services(ACS) from DFC
This article discusses the procedure for using Accelerated Content Services (ACS) from DFC. Also included is the code sample for exporting a document using DFC and ACS.

New Code Snippets

Hide Seconds,Minutes and/or Hours in the WDK Date-Time control
Contributed by Michael S. McCollough from Forefront Technologies
Javascript that allows you to hide the hour, minute, or seconds of the docbaseattribute time control without having to delve into customizing the control class. This script also gets rid of the corresponding colons.

Convert a Virtual Document Structure into a XML structure using XDQL

Accessing Virtual Documents

Updates

WDK 5 Reporting Component
This WDK 5 component allows you to run reports from within Webtop. The reports are specified using an XML file which contains a DQL query and formatting instructions. The Developer Program team will make use of this component to create administrative reports which will be released in the Component Exchange.
UPDATED Jan 17, 2006 with various bug fixes based on patches provided by Jonathan Wolter (jwolter) on the WDK Support Forums.

WDK Eclipse Plugin
WDK-based applications (e.g Webtop, WebPublisher, DA) consist of components and actions organized into various layers. Developing a WDK-based application involves customizing these components. This generally involves wading through deep folder hierarchies and XML files. This Eclipse plugin provides an abstraction over this folder structure and the XML config files.

UPDATES

Added a WDK controls listing and the ability to drag-drop a control onto a JSP editor.
Added ability to support various Java project structures.
Fixed a bug that did not refresh project contents correctly.

Thanks to Ingo Zitzmann(srzzii), Dave Claessens(claesda) and Harjit Singh(harjits) for submitting plugin feature requests and bugs in the WDK support forums.

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