This convenience class allows developers to access Documentum Service-based Business Objects (SBOs) from .NET languages. The class allows .NET developers to make use of the existing Java-based business objects that ship with Documentum products or are downloaded from the Component Exchange.

Article

These custom ASP.NET controls provide some Documentum functionality such as Login, Querying and Tree Navigation. These controls leverage new features available in ASP.NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005).

Component

This example illustrates how to invoke a Service Business Object from ASP.NET. The sample user control applies an XSL stylesheet to an XML file in a Documentum Repository and displays the results. The XSL file may contain XDQL statements. This example references the SBO Bridge that was discussed in a separate article on the Developer web site.

Component

This application template uses WDK, XML and business objects to illustrate how to build a pharmaceutical labeling solution. When drugs are released to market, certain information must be printed to support the drug, including the label on the bottle, the insert in the box, and more. This application template allows a user to manage the label data and produce the variety of output data using Documentum.

Article

Common Technical Document (CTD) is an emerging standard used by the pharmaceutical industry for  submissions to regulatory agencies. This month we are proud to present SAM, a prototype  electronic CTD submission application built using the Webtop platform. Included in the  prototype are all of the following:

• An overview of the eCTD standard,
• An AVI recording of the prototype demonstration and storyboard,
• A high-level architectural overview,
• Low level technical descriptions of the SAM components,
• Links to generic 'utility methods' written specifically for SAM,
• Comprehensive installation instructions,
• The components and source code to install SAM on your own development system.

Article

This article demonstrates how to utilize a general-purpose component for an industry-specific application. Using the 'Document Bin' component, which can be downloaded form the Documentum Developer Program Component Exchange, we will create a solution for creating an engineering transmittal package and notice that can then be electronically sent to a supplier.

Article

This document provides a guide to developers using Documentum Collaboration Edition. It includes sample code and javadocs for the collaboration code packaged under com.documentum.services.collaboration. The code samples provide examples of how to use and leverage the collaboration API.

Component

This sample ASP.NET application implements the basic Documentum library functions login, import, view, checkin and checkout. It also implements a hierarchical tree view of the Documentum repository using Microsoft's free ASP.NET tree control. The code manages the user's authentication and sessions throughout the application providing a 'user context' containing all of the current session's information.

Tutorial

This NT service monitors a XS License Server. This service utilizes a script to deliver configuration and process license server information. The script provides the License Server connection information and polling interval.

This TBO automatically populates some of a documents attributes based on the folder it is linked to.

DFC 5.3 introduced the concept of modules. A generic definition of a module is that it is a discrete, self-contained unit that can be combined with other modules to create a larger application. Service-based Business Objects(SBOs) and Type-based Business Objects(TBOs) are types of modules. This article discusses the process for creating a custom module.

Article

This sample code describes the utility methods used in our samples to create WDK virtual links and URLs, and to get an object's linked folder information.

Article

Learn how to execute XDQL using DFC. This article contains a snippet of code and instructions to show you the way.

Article

This sample code describes the utility methods used to generate a checksum for a repository object's content using the Java Crypto API.

Article

This sample code describes two utility methods designed to help you to find the relationship between two object types. The first determines whether one type is a supertype of a second. The second method gets all the subtypes of a specified type.

Article

This sample code describes a utility method to do a 'deep folder create'. The method takes a string representing a cabinet/folder hierarchy and creates all levels of the path that do not already exist.

Article

We often choose to store an application's configuration information in an XML file and business objects are no exception. To this end, we previously developed a standard XML configuration file framework to read XML configuration files. This updated version leverages a more standard and powerful XML storage model to support access using standard Xpath expressions

Article

These sample service-based and type-based business objects provide a starting point for your business object development. The code samples illustrate how to implement a type-based business object that invokes methods that are provided by a service-based business object.

Article

Download the most comprehensive guide to developing applications using Documentum business objects; the Documentum Developer Guide will walk you through details of the architecture, the different types of business objects and some basic examples. The examples in this guide have been implemented as code samples on the Component Exchange.

Please note: This is the BOF 5.1 Developer's Guide; the BOF guide has been merged in to the DFC Developer's Guide for version 5.2 and higher.

Article

Log4j is an open source project that provides a reliable, fast and extensible logging library for Java. The Documentum DFC class, DfLogger is available with DFC 5.1 or higher and can only be used with Java. It uses the log4j logging library to enable logging from DFC applications. This paper gives an overview of how to use DfLogger in existing and new applications.

Article

This paper is essential reading for anyone interested in the Documentum Business Objects Framework. The paper gives a clear and concise technical overview of business objects; it covers the reasons for using them, the different types of business objects and how they are implemented.  

Article

We often choose to store an application's configuration information in an XML file and business objects are no exception. To this end, we have developed a configuration file framework which includes a general purpose XML configuration file and a Java class that provides methods to access its content. This package also includes a simple Java application that illustrates how to use the XML Configuration Framework.

Article

This article discusses means of trapping the import functionality using a Type business object (TBO). For example,a common scenario when you might want to do this is if you wanted to apply a lifecycle to objects when they are imported, or apply a certain value to a property.

Article

Documentum engineers have gained considerable experience over the years developing reusable business objects for our client applications. In an effort to capture lessons learned from this experience, several key engineers collaborated to produce a collection of best practices and guidelines for business object development. These are now used internally by all Documentum engineers when developing and unit testing business objects.

We are pleased to make this development guide available to our developer community. Please remember that the goal is to facilitate component reuse, extendibility, and quality; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of requirements.

Best Practice

This document contains best practices, tips and lessons learned by the Developer Program team through our experience writing the business objects found on the Component Exchange. This document will be updated frequently  - please check back  for new information.

Best Practice

In 5.3 SP2, full-text indexing includes a new feature that allows the Index Agent to skip certain documents from being indexed. A common example is job reports because there are so many of them. This article discusses the process of writing a custom index filter and provides a sample index filter that skips documents in system cabinets such as 'System', 'Resources', 'Temp' and 'Templates'.

Component

The service is used to perform a deep import of a local file system folder. The internal hierarchy (structure) of the local folder including the contained documents is recreated in the Docbase.

Component

This service-based business object extends the original 'Web Content Downloader' code to include asynchronous downloads and multiple, simultaneous downloads. The code imports content from specified URLs into a repository, it will attempt to 'guess' the objects' formats, object_names, and titles if they are not supplied.

Component

This Webtop customization allows you to send repository documents, or folders, as attachments in an email. The standard Webtop product only allows you to send URL links to repository objects as email attachments, however this customization exposes the functionality through a WDK mail component and uses an SBO to send the messages using the Java Mail API and a SMTP server.

Updated January 2005

Component

The service provides utility functions related to zip archives and Docbase objects. The following types of utilities are included - creating a zip of a Docbase folder contents and storing it in the Docbase, extracting a zip into a Docbase folder, exporting a Docbase folder contents as a zip, and creating a zip of a file system folder and importing it.

Updated January 2005

Component

This service-based business object executes asynchronous, multi-repository queries and can be used through any Documentum client that uses DFC 5.2.5 or above. The enclosed WDK component illustrates how to display the combined results of a multi-repository search.

Component

Running a process asynchronously can significantly improve the user experience. This set of classes provides the means to execute business object code in an asynchronous manner by using a thread pool. The code is used in some of our other examples but has been packaged separately here to help you to decode and re-use it.

Component

It is possible to 'wrap' a service-based business object, (SBO), in a Web service and then invoke it remotely. This Web service provides a wrapper for the Autonaming SBO, in this example we used BEA's Weblogic Workshop 7.0 product to simplify the development of the wrapper.

Component

This service-based business object returns a string based on your company's own naming rules. Each rule is defined in your own custom class file and called by this business object. A typical use would be to call it from a type-based business object that overrides an object's setObjectName() method inorder to get a new object name.

Component

Provides a service to generate unique numbers that can be used to number or name Docbase objects. The example shows a type-based business object that stores, increments and validates the number against a set of simple business rules. It also contains a service-based business object that shows how to call the type-based business object

Component

This type-based business object (TBO) extends the checkin method of our 'dp_checkinwithlifecycle' object type and applies a lifecycle upon checkin. An XML configuration file is used to specify the lifecycle to be applied.

Component

This service-based business object (SBO) is used to create a Docbase folder structure based on a template specified in a XML configuration file. The internal structure of the folder can consist of multiple folders and documents. The template to be used can be either defined in the XML configuration file of the SBO or supplied to the service by a method call that passes the Java Config class to the SBO.

Component

This code implements functionality similar to the Microsoft Windows' Recycle Bin. A type based business object traps all calls to an object type's destroy() method and soft deletes objects; this behavior is independent of the client. Using a WDK component in Webtop, users can then view the recycle bin contents then restore, or permanently delete, the objects.

Updated March 2004 to include the version 1 BOConfig classes.

Component

This service-based business object (SBO) provides an interface to send a rendition request for a document. The request is sent to Content Rendition Services (formerly AutoRender Pro).

Component

This Webtop customization implements a document bin (aka shopping cart) to which users can add documents from the Docbase. The customization also includes functionality to create an archive package of the documents along with a manifest document.

To see the end results of using the document bin component see the 'Transmittal System Scenario' article which can be downloaded from the Component Exchange.

Component

This service provides an interface to apply an XSL stylesheet to an XML document. It uses the DFC Transformation APIs to achieve its purpose and provides the result of the transformation as raw data that can be used by presentation layer for display. In the example provided, the output is saved to an HTML file.

UPDATED 31 March, 2005

Component

This type-based business object (TBO) extends the checkin method of our 'dp_documentwithworkflow' object type so that a workflow is automatically started whenever a document of that type is checked in. The format of the document being checked in is used to determine which workflow is started. An XML configuration file is used to map content format types to workflow objects.

Component

This type-based business object (TBO) checks in a document and performs a request for a rendition.  This component is dependent on the service-based 'Rendition Service' business object.

Component

Developers often have a need to export a Docbase folder including its subfolders and content to the file system. Since this functionality is a common requirement for several client applications, we wrapped it in a service-based business object, (SBO) so that it can be called easily cross-platform and cross-application. This SBO performs an export of a Docbase folder with its internal structure and content to the file system. The folder structure can contain virtual documents as well as simple documents and sub-folders.

Note: This functionality can be extended by using the 'Zip Service' business object available from the component exchange. The zip service will take the exported content and create a single zip file which can then be automatically imported back into the Docbase.

Component

With this service-based business object, developers can search the Internet and manipulate the results. The service uses the APIs provided by Google to access the Google search engine using a Web service.

Component

This service-based business object provides methods to create templates, create documents from templates, search for templates and provide a listing of templates of a specific object type. It is used by the "Project Folder Creation" business object to populate the newly created folders.

Component

This serviced-based business object (SBO) imports content from a specified URL into the Docbase. The service will attempt to 'guess' the object's format, object_name and title if they are not supplied.

Component

The service-based business object (SBO) creates a zip archive file of a Docbase folder. It contains three utility methods.  One will zip a file system folder structure and import the zip file into a Docbase. Another will export a Docbase folder structure including its content and  zip it leaving the zip file on the file system. The third exports a Docbase folder structure with its content then zips it and imports the resultant zip file into a Docbase.

Component

This Service business object(SBO) provides helper methods to attach/detach a lifecyle and promote/demote all documents contained in a folder. One usage of this SBO would be to invoke it from a workflow containing a folder as a package to perform lifecycle-related operations on all documents in that folder. The SBO is based on code submitted by David Hollister from CUNO.

Component

This Service-based Business Object (SBO) allows the managing of MergeFields inside Micorosoft Word Documents. The component allows update of MergeFields with plain text or images from the repository. The SBO acts as a bridge between Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) and the WordWriter libraries from OfficeWriter.

Component

The ReplicationWrapper SBO allows the replication of Documentum object attributes to remote data providers in an easy and transparent way. The component permits extending its functionalities and the data providers supported with the "DataSource" definition concept.

Component

This code sample implements a 'Duplicate Object Name Checking Service'. It is used to check whether a particular object name already exists in a folder, if a duplicate object name is found then the code uses the Auto Naming Service business object to change the new object name.

Component

'DBORManage' is a utility for managing the Documentum Business Objects Registry. It allows you to register, remove and list the entries in the business object registry. This zip file contains the DBORManage jar file, the related JavaDocs, a set of batch files and an overview of both the Documentum Business Objects Registry and the DBORManage utility.

Tool

In many of our examples we store our XML configuration file in the main Jar file. This application lets you edit these configuration files without having to first unpack the Jar file. The application will also edit standalone XML files and allow you to transform the XML content. It was written using the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit.

Tool

The purpose of this article is to illustrate a convenient way to perform an XSL/T transformation as a part of an automated workflow activity. In addition to performing the transformation, this code provides a simple mechanism for configuring common business rules around how to perform that transformation, and where put the transformation results. For example, will the XSL come from a workflow package, or should we use the XSL associated with the XML via a dm_relation (the Web Publisher method)? Should we create a new rendition of the original XML object with the transformation results? Or should we create a new object? Should that new object be attached to the workflow? These are common requirements that in the past might have required the creation of a separate workflow method to solve each scenario.

With the introduction of  'Activity Templates' in Business Process Manager 5.2.5, we are able to create one single workflow method to implement all of this behavior, and a single Activity Template that can be used to describe which behaviors should be used in a particular situation.

Article

This Modeler provides you a set of BPMN graphical objects with which you can draw business process diagrams. Once completed, process flow diagrams can be exported to XPDL, BPEL, or PAPX. Processes exported to PAPX, BPEL, and XPDL can be imported into the Documentum Business Process Analyzer. Processes exported to XPDL can be imported into Documentum Business Process Manager.

Tool

A Business Process Manager (BPM) activity template represents a particular task that you can add to a business process, for example rendering a Word document to PDF. The template identifies any underlying workflow methods required to complete the task and determines what configuration attributes must be set in order to accomplish the task. The template may also set default values for some common attributes.

Business Process Manager comes with several predefined activity templates that enable users to easily create automated activities. If BPM does not include an activity template that meets your business needs then you can create your own custom template. You can create a new template from scratch or you can copy an existing template then modify it. In this tutorial we walk you through the process of creating a new activity template from scratch.

Tutorial

The Login Manager (dcloginmgr.dll) is used to establish a connection to a Docbase. This document explains the purpose of the DTC Login Manager and provides tips and Component for optimal use.

Article

Desktop Client Developers often need to add menu items that call Window's applications. The "Menu System Designer" application supplied with DDS enables developers to do this. Developers often find that the Pathname and Parameter textboxes used to supply the executable's path are disabled. This paper walks you through the steps necessary to enable and use these parameters.

Article

The DTC Component Dispatcher is used to launch any Desktop Client component or your own custom component. Learn more about the Component Dispatcher.

Article

With complex business logic, high network latency or low network bandwidth, performance of customized "Checkin", "Checkout" or "Search" operations can be less than optimal. One solution is to create asynchronous components, this paper provides examples of how to code asynchronous components in Visual Basic. Download the zip file, it contains the paper and also two example zip files.

Article

The Documentum Desktop Client, (DTC), consists of a set of components that are integrated into both the Microsoft Office and Windows Explorer products. This document is an overview of how you can invoke some of the dialog boxes that are used in the Office integration. The sample code is written in Visual Basic.

Component

Have you ever needed to take a specific action each time a user logs in to the Docbase? This paper, and the accompanying code samples, illustrate one way of doing this using DTC event handling. The code samples include a tool for 'watching' all events as they occur and an application that launches a pop-up dialog each time the user logs into a Docbase. Download both code samples and the overview document in a single zip file or view just the overview document.

Component

Given a custom Documentum Desktop component's ProgID, this application will package up the component as a cabinet file (.cab) file and give you all of the relevant information for including it in a DocApp. The application makes use of DcComponentInstaller.exe and dccabmgr.dll  from the Documentum Desktop  to assist the development of the .cab files.

Component

This series of articles, code samples and papers will help you to understand how to use Documentum Desktop Client components in your own custom applications. The tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of Visual Basic and a good understanding of the Documentum object model and core capabilities

Component

This Documentum Desktop 5.2 component allows you to select an XML document in the Docbase and transform it using an XSL stylesheet. The output of the transformation can be saved to the local file system, as a new Docbase object, or as an HTML rendition of the original XML document. Sample XML and XSL documents are provided, as well as the Visual Basic 6 source code for the component.

Component

Persisting objects using Java 5 annotations helps developers reduce the complexity of code as compared to using traditional methods. This approach promotes re-usability and better design. With this class, you can extend your classes which map to Documentum types and get the functionality of persisting the class to a Documentum object type with a single call.

Article

This article demonstrates how to use Jython to connect to a Documentum docbase using DFC and get Docbase session information. Also demonstrated is how to query for a document and display attribute values.

Article

The JDBC Adapter is used to connect ECI Services to relational databases. This is the standard ECI JDBC Adapter packaged as a standalone Adapter, including the source code. It can be extended or be used as an example of a complex Adapter

The HttpSample Adapter helps the adapter developer to get started and create his own java adapter on an HTTP source. It is a complementary material to the ECIS adapter development guide. The provided files should be customized and not used 'as is'

The BaseSample Adapter helps the adapter developer to get started and create his own java adapter. It is a complementary material to the ECIS adapter development guide. The provided files should be customized and not used 'as is'.

The Koders Code Search Adapter is used to connect ECI Services to the Koders search engine (http://www.koders.com). The adapter contains a backend on the EMC developer network code search, which uses the Koders search engine (http://codesearch.developer.emc.com/). This adapter is packaged as a standalone Adapter, including the source code. It can used as an example of a complex Adapter or customized for specific needs.

Documentum Enterprise Content Integration enables the integration of all content sources inside and outside the enterprise, allowing end users to access all relevant content with a single query - no matter where content is located and how it's accessed.  Visit the ECI Services Adapter Exchange to download a variety of unsupported adaptors.

Article

This ECIS adapter provides access to the Excite Web site. Excite's patented ICE search technology gives you access to more than 50 million Web pages, 140,000 pre-selected Web site listings, and thousands of Usenet postings. 60 million pages updated every 3 weeks

Component

An adapter to the Eclipse home site. The content should be of good interest for developers. ECI ADK version 4 and 5.3.

Component

This is an adapter to Google through its SOAP webservice API. It requires a "personal" key, see http://www.google.com/apis/. A very good example of an adapter to a SOAP webservice.

Component

This has been updated to include ECI ADK version 4 and Documentum 5.3. This ECIS adapter provides access to the ZDNet Web site. ZDNet is a worldwide network of Web sites for people who want to buy, use, and learn about technology.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the EDGAR Web site. EDGAR contains submissions and fillings by public companies with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) such as 10-K (annual) and 10-Q (quarterly) reports.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the Internet Archive Web site. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the InvisibleWeb Web site.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the Java Developer Connection (SUN) Web site.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the Library of Congress Web site.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the SourceForge.net Web site. SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, providing free hosting to tens of thousands of projects. The mission of SourceForge.net is to enrich the Open Source community by providing a centralized place for Open Source developers to control and manage Open Source software development. To fulfill this mission goal, we offer a variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the Usenix Web site.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the U.S. Newswire Web site. U.S. Newswire distributes news and information to media nationwide for the White House Press Office, the Federal Government, the Congress, Political Organizations, Foreign Embassies, Associations, Unions, Civic Groups, Universities, Think Tanks, and Research Organizations.

Component

This ECIS adapter provides access to the ZDNet Web site. ZDNet is a worldwide network of Web sites for people who want to buy, use, and learn about technology.

Component

WDK for Portlets, version 5.2.5 includes a set of unsupported sample portlets. This article and accompanying sample code show how to use these sample portlets. The article shows how to convert the WDK DQL editor component in to a portlet. It also explains how to develop a portlet to launch the WDK simple search component, a portlet to display Docbase data and launch other WDK components, and a logout portlet to log the user out of all Documentum portlets but not out of the portal.

Article

This sample portlet gives developers an example of how to develop a 'content consumer portlet' that is linked to a specific Documentum object type and attribute set. The end user will be able to search for and access documents based on attributes exposed by the component.

Component

Information about the different ways of setting your classpath from Sun's developer library.

Article

In this article, David describes the JobAgentManager Method Component developed using Java and DFC (Documentum Foundation Classes). This Method Agent has been designed to allow distribution of job workload between different Content Server instances and in case of failure, the automatic reassignment of the target server responsible of the execution of the jobs.

Component

This piece of code aids in creating ACLs outside of a docapp. All the creation in specified in an XML File, which the utility will process and create ACLs. This can also be invoked using the popular build and deploy tool Ant.

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.

Component

An Eclipse plug-in that allows you to execute DQL queries and API calls. Both the DQL editor and the API editor come with 'code assist' and syntax highlighting. The plug-in was developed by Christopher Harper from EMC Consulting.

UPDATED MAY 2005 - The plugin has been updated to include type & relation navigation, table navigation, repository structure navigation, group hierarchy navigation, users,inbox, previous DQL statements, predefined DQL & API statements for each navigation tree node, check-in/check-out and many more.

Tool

The Content Transformation Services Product SDK has been updated for 5.3 SPx versions of Content Transformation Services products and is now available for download. The Content Transformation Services Product SDK contains all the tools that developers need to follow the Content Transformations Services Transformation Plug-in framework and create their own Transformation Plug-ins. Transformation Plug-ins allow you to extend the features and capabilities already provided by a standard installation of Content Transformation Services products.

Content Transformation Services products includes Media Transformation Services, Document Transformation Services, Advanced Document Transformation Service, and Regulatory Publishing Transformation Services, as well as additional add-on components that are available for some products.

Tool

This Eclipse wizard creates a new Java project configured for DFC development. The wizard automatically references all the DFC jars and configuration files and sets up the source and output folders. It basically automates the steps described in our previous article Configuring DFC Development Environment in Eclipse.

Tool

This Eclipse wizard creates a new Service-based Business Object (SBO) and opens it up for editing within Eclipse. It accepts the SBO interface name and generates the implementation class containing the necessary overriden methods. The wizard can be used with any Java project that references DFC libraries.

Tool

Documentum Command Shell (DOCS), is a light-weight, read-only, command-line Documentum client. The shell can process simple commands that allow you to navigate the Documentum repository, examine objects in the repository, and retrieve objects from the repository. The shell was contributed by M. Scott Roth (scott.roth AT flatironssolutions.com) from Flatirons Solutions.

UPDATED December 2006 - The source code for the project has been released on Sourceforge.net

Tool

The Repository Interrogation Utility allows a user to navigate repositories, perform a properties dump, view the type tree of a repository and run DQL or xDQL queries. The utility now includes some additional features such as integration with the 'Object Reference Manual', a listing of SBOs and detection of registered TBOs. The utlity is available as both a standalone application and an Eclipse plugin. The standalone application can be used without the need to know or install the whole Eclipse IDE.

UPDATE: A development build of the next version of Repoint has been released. The next version has improved query view performance and a changed repository browser. The latest development build works with D6.

Tool

Murali Krishnan Mani contributed this tool that provides a detailed summary of a DocApp archive content in a format presentable to the application users. The tool can be used against DocApp Archives that have been created using any version of Documentum Application Builder up to version 5.3., and does not require connectivity to Docbase.

Tool

DAB is a very good tool for creating docapps but has some limitations. The only way is to build your jars on a box and update your modules by updating the jars, creating a DocApp and deploying them through the Appinstaller. In this article Harjit Singh proposes an alternative solution.

Tool

This plugin integrates WDK developer documentation guides with the Eclipse IDE Help system.

Tutorial

The Documentum 5 platform provides numerous features for the creation, management, and delivery of content in many different languages and to many different locales. The process of localizing a Documentum-based application may involve many different activities. Documentum provides tools to facilitate the localization at the repository and WDK level, and although the processes for adding various levels of localization support are documented on an individual level, it is not always easy to know where one should start. The purpose of this whitepaper is to give a 'cook-book' style approach to adding support for new locales to applications based on the 5.2.x WDK framework.

Article

This component expands on our previous Simple Drag and Drop article and some type and service based components available on the Component Exchange. With the support of drag and drop in Webtop, we decided to extend the Document Bin so that a user could drag and drop a document into the current active bin. This article is not specific to the document bin customization. The document bin functionality has been merely used to illustrate one example of drag and drop.

Article

WDK/WebTop 5.3 introduced support for Drag and Drop operations. This enables users to drag and drop files within their browser between cabinets, folders and virtual documents. It also enables them to drag files from their local file system into the repository. This article describes the process of enabling Drag and Drop for a simple custom component.

Article

When developing custom WDK components it is essential to be able to trace the component's behavour. In this tutorial, you will create a tracing class for your custom code and add a tracing flag to your code, then turn on tracing and inspect the log.

Article

WDK 5.2 introduces a new extendable authentication service that supports custom authentication schemes. Bundled with WDK 5.2 is the 'single sign on' sample scheme that supports authentication against policy servers using the 'Trusted Content Services for the Content Server'. This article gives an overview of how to configure this scheme.

Article

This article builds on the 'Understanding the WDK Tree Control' article to explain the architecture of the browser tree component used in Webtop's classic mode to navigate the cabinet/folder structure. As an example, the article shows how to add the 'Recycle Bin' to the browser tree as a new static node.

Article

This document and the accompanying sample code show how to modify the Webtop browser tree to display the contents on a virtual document. The virtual document can be expanded and collapsed to display its children within the browser tree.

Article

This article discusses the architecture of the authentication service introduced in WDK 5.2. It details how to implement your own custom schemes so you can authenticate users using your own policy servers or your specific business processes. Example schemes are available from the Component Exchange. These include an auto-login authentication scheme and a paper on configuring the single sign on scheme for policy servers that is bundled with WDK 5.2.

Article

This article, and the associated code, explain the architecture of the WDK tree control and illustrate how to programmatically create your own tree. The sample code allows you to view an XML file as a hierarchical tree.

This is part one of a three part series on customizing the Webtop browser tree.

Article

Writing your first WDK component? Like most developers you probably just want to jump in and start coding without reading associated developer documentation. Obviously, we would never do this ourselves - right! This paper will walk you through the process of adding a new component to WebTop; the component will be invoked from a menu item. The paper covers the steps involved in adding the menu item, the associated action and the actual component. The component will simply display 'Hello World' in the WebTop main frame.

Article

This paper extends the previous "Your first WDK Component" article. This article shows you how to add dynamic text to that component by using WDK label controls.

Article

This paper extends the previous "Writing your first WDK Component" article. The previous article walked you through adding dynamic controls to a WDK component in Webtop. This article shows you how to add a datagrid control to that component; a datagrid component will allow you to display the results of a Docbase query in a component.

Article

In this article UI designer Evan Snow, discusses the process for modifying the UI theme in WDK/Webtop 5.3.

Article

The WDK simple search query submits the string entered by the user in the text box. The string is queried against all indexed attributes as well as the full-text index. The advanced search query submits one or more query clauses based on user selection of attributes on the search UI plus any string entered in the full-text box. This article from Lani looks discusses the process of modifying the search queries after the user submits them.

Article

Documentum engineers have gained considerable experience over the years developing reusable components for our client applications. In an effort to capture lessons learned from this experience, several key engineers collaborated to produce a collection of best practices and guidelines for WDK component development. These are now used internally by all Documentum engineers when developing and unit testing components.

We are pleased to make this component development guide available to our developer community. Please remember that the goal is to facilitate component reuse, extendibility, and quality; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of requirements.

Best Practice

This example is a customization of the Webtop Advanced Search Component. It adds conditional value assistance support to the 'Advanced Search with Value Assistance' component available on the Component Exchange.

Component

The Component Exchange has a component that performs auto login to WDK-based applications. That component is built as an authentication scheme within the WDK authentication service. Sometimes its necessary to perform auto login only for a certain behavior such as DRLs. This article will discuss how to restrict auto login to only certain components.

Component

WDK 5.2 introduces a new extendable authentication service that supports custom authentication schemes. This sample authentication scheme automatically logs users in to Webtop without them having to enter credentials. The scheme reads the default username and password from a property file and uses these credentials for all users. The code includes a backdoor to allow administrators to bypass the automatic login.

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We have had numerous requests for system administration reports that can be called from Webtop. In the spirit of component-based programming, we are making use of a component that is already available for download from the Component Exchange, a generic WDK 5 Reporting component to execute and display reports. This article contains the XML source file and installation instructions to create a report showing the Documentum repository disk space usage per user.

Component

We have had numerous requests for system administration reports that can be called from Webtop. In the spirit of component-based programming, we are making use of a component that is already available for download from the Component Exchange, a generic WDK 5 Reporting component to execute and display reports. This article contains the XML source file and installation instructions to create a report showing objects with a status of 'Expired' ordered by modifier.

Component

This example adds value assistance support to the 'Webtop Advanced Search Component'. When value assistance is specified for an attribute, the customization presents a dropdown list of all possible search values rather than having the user enter free text.  Note: The component works for BOTH WDK 5.1 and WDK 5.2. It has been tested on both 5.1 and 5.2

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Modified Checkin action that also creates a PDF rendition upon checkin. The component also demonstrates the process of hooking into WDK 5 Actions and starting a new action.

Component

This article forms part of the pharmaceutical labeling sample application built to illustrate the power of WebTop and WDK as a development platform.

One of the great features of the sample Equidocs application is the ability to edit and view XML inline. The first step in this process is to recognize the fact that the selected object is XML. Content qualifiers are the mechanism used to recognize the current content and override the default behavior.

Component

This article and the accompanying Component demonstrates the procedure used to create a new custom component within the WDK 5 framework. In order to demonstrate the procedure, we will walk you through the creation of a simple one-box search component. The article covers creating your own component, configuring it, handling server-side events and performing navigation between pages of a component.

Component

This article demonstrates how to create your own WDK Action, associate it with a component and invoke it using action controls. We create a component that allows the user to select an object and then create an email containing a URL back to that item. Clicking on the URL contained within the email enables the recipient of the email to view that document using Webtop.

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Corporations often standardize on a common date format for use in all written communication across the company. Webtop, however, provides only limited control over how dates are displayed and how date input is accepted. This customization allows you to enforce a single date format for all Webtop pages. Alternatively, you can select a specific date format to be used in a single control. For example, specifying a global format of "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z" would give you dates that look like "2003.09.26 AD at 11:49:26 EDT" - if that's what you really want!

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Many companies define a standard format for displaying dates, however, Webtop provides only limited control over setting date formats. With this control, you can enforce a single date format across all Webtop pages or select a specific date format for a single control. As an example, specifying a global format of "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z" would display dates in the form "2003.09.26 AD at 11:49:26 EDT" - if that's what you really want!

UPDATED November 29,2005 to correct bugs related to WDK 5.3

Component

As you know, it is possible to override the default behavior of WDK components. One common requirement is to enable different behavior depending on the Docbase that the user has logged into. The class file included with this article enables the use of "Docbase name qualifiers" to achieve this goal.

Component

This article forms part of the pharmaceutical labeling sample application built to illustrate the power of WebTop and WDK as a development platform. The transformation from XML to HTML is actually done by the underlying XML application. This custom WDK component invokes the XML application. This download also includes an overview of the process and the code.

Component

This Webtop customization implements functionality similar to that found in many Windows' applications where a list of the 'most recently used' (MRU) items is available. Objects are added to the MRU menu when they are selected for editing; when the user selects an item from the MRU the streamlined view's file list component is launched.

Component

This WDK 5.1 component saves the user from having to log in to the Docbase each time a new WDK browser window is opened, the enhancement is implemented through a customization of the default WDK 5.1 login component.

Component

This article forms part of the pharmaceutical labeling sample application built to illustrate the power of WebTop and WDK as a development platform.

Having recognized that a file is XML this component will display the XML in a form 'TEXTAREA' control for viewing or editing. Our XML editing partners will not worry about this component as competition in their space however it is a great example of a simple but effective customization.

Component

This custom WDK 5.1 action modifies the default behavior of the standard WDK view action such that when a user views a document the system checks to see if a PDF rendition exists. If the PDF does exist then that rendition will be launched; if it does not exist then the default behavior is invoked, (i.e. the primary rendition will be launched).

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: Various bug fixes.

Component

This component provides an interactive listing of the new WDK 5.1 components, and allows you to dynamically invoke them, modify their configuration settings and test them prior to using them in your custom application. This is a great way to become familiar with the contents of the WDK component library and to experience them running first hand. Please note that this is actually a WDK component itself and as such needs to be installed into a previously existing WDK installation. The download archive includes a document titled "WDK_componentTestbed_Install_Instructions.doc" which will direct you on the steps necessary to perform the deployment of this component. This component is unsupported at this time, however we plan to add it to future versions of the WDK. If you have questions or comments on its functionality please direct them to the WDK 5 Developer Community

Component

This article and the accompanying sample code demonstrates the procedure used to create a new control within the WDK 5 framework. WDK 5 comes with a 'text only' date control, this sample code implements a simple graphical calendar control. The article also gives a brief overview of controls in WDK 5.

Component

Dates are rendered in WDK-based applications using either attribute controls such as docbaseattributelabel or by controls within the docbaseattributelist control. A customization for formatting dates rendered by attribute controls is available on the Component Exchange. In this article, Lani shows how to format dates in a docbaseattributelist control.

Component

Multivalued fields such as repeating attribute values are shown as a comma-separated string within a WDK datagrid. The customization presented here extends the datadropdownlist control in WDK so that its possible to show comma-separated values in a dropdown list within a datagrid.

Component

This program assists in the creation of localized NLS files not included in the Documentum Language Packs. In other words, NLS files for all of your custom applications and objects, so long as you used NLS files for their strings. Read more...

Tool

Kunal Gaba submitted this utility for WDK developers. Launched with a keyboard shortcut, the tool displays complete WDK component tracing information in real time after the form is rendered.

Tool

The WDK 'docbaseattributevalue' control is used to render the values of repository attributes. This customization looks at how you can change the control (e.g. Text, TextArea) that renders the attribute value.

Tutorial

When browsing cabinets using Webtop classic view, the component that shows the file list in the right-hand pane is the 'objectlist' component, which extends the 'objectgrid' component. To view all objects of a certain type, you can create a custom object grid component that displays custom attributes. This custom component can be launched from the Webtop classic tree or from a menu item in the streamline view

Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will create a content transfer listener component that calls the import action and gets the new object IDs after import. If your custom component will perform some operation outside of content transfer, it is better to create a listener component rather than extend the content transfer component itself. Specifically, this component gets the map of object IDs for new objects that are imported by UCF content transfer introduced in WDK 5.3

Tutorial

The WDK Import component can be configured to limit the list of types to a type and all its subtypes. This customization fulfills the requirement of providing a limited set of types that do not derive from the same type.  It can also be used to make only selected subtypes visible. Thus, this customization limits the types that can be imported.

Tutorial

In this tutorial you will create a simple WDK actionlist component that reads information from all of the action definition files in your application. Summary information about the actions will be displayed with drilldown pages that display detailed information about a specific action.

Tutorial

When logging in to a WDK-based application you may want to restrict the repository names displayed. In this tutorial you will limit the number of repositories listed on the login page of  Webtop by making changes to the login component.

Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will create a class that extends the UCF export container in Webtop and overrides the methods that supply the export location. You will create a method that reads the default location from the component definition file and another that sets the location based on the user home directory.

Tutorial

If you want to restrict users from adding repositories, the 'Add Repositories' option should be disabled in Webtop. You can create simple extensions of the Webtop browsertree class and tag class and the browsertree component class to do this. In this article, Lani discusses the details for implementing this customization which also includes the complete source code.

Tutorial

The prompt component can be used by containers to display popup dialogs. Such dialogs are useful for showing a warning, error or an informational message. The prompt component can be used by any container. In this article, Lani discusses the process for using the prompt component. The package also includes the complete source code for the customization.

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