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  UCF stand for ‘ Unified Content Facilities’  which is a lightweight applet that is responsible for transferring content between the content server, application server and the client machine during operations such as check-in, checkout, import etc. UCF is a Java-based client application that is installed at run-time. Since WDK application uses UCF content transfer it downloads a lightweight applet to the browser when the client uses the Documentum operations for the first time. UCF has many advantages that extend beyond simple FTP (file transfer protocol), such as: – Recoverability in case of brief network interruption. – It supports transfer of large files over network and optimizes the transfers by content compression capabilities. – Awareness of locally downloaded files, and the ability to avoid downloading the same content twice – Support for complex documents, such as XML files – Registry support, to allow checkout from one application and check in from another.  Th...

  Introduction: The  Business Object Framework  (BOF) is a set of functionality that provides ability to hook into any of the methods in the standard DFC object interfaces. BOF’s are of two kinds: Type Based Object(TBO) Service Based Object(SBO) TBO’s are used when only one object type needs its functionality overridden whereas, we use a SBO when the functionality is overridden for different object types or in case we want to use the functionality in many other TBO’s. The main use of TBO is the ability it gives a developer to override selected functionality of the DfSysObject or any of its child types. Module 1: Creating the TBO Steps to be followed for creating a TBO jar Create a java class using the same name as the object type. The java class will have to extend DfDocument and will have to override its 4 functions getVersion, getVendorString (), isCompatible (String s) and supportsFeature (String s) Then it will have to override the function that th...

  WDK (web development kit) customizations have been part and parcel of all custom Documentum WebTop applications. The customizations includes copying the WDK components (XMLs, JSPs, custom class etc) into the custom layer. Until version 5.3 SP6 there were no Documentum out of the box features that allowed developers to perform basic customization without having to customize the WDK components manually. Documentum 6 and above version presented the idea of “ Presets ”. This versatile out of the box feature in Documentum enable Documentum developers to perform basic WDK customization/configuration with a few clicks of the mouse. This Post  deals with the basics of Documentum presets and demonstrates a sample preset configuration. Presets Presets are out of the box feature in Documentum which enable Documentum developers to perform basic WDK customization/configuration with a few clicks of the mouse.Presets are easy to apply rules or configurations that can be created to bring in...

  For faster and better search functionalities EMC has developed a Full Text Index Server which is installed separately with the Content management software to provide an index based search capability. In version 5.2.5 SPx the full text search engine was using Verity which has been now changed to FAST (Fast Search & Transfer) in 5.3 SPx onwards and xPlore replaced further. In Verity we have to explicitly define the attributes to be indexed, in the content server configuration, whereas one of the salient features of FAST is that by default, all the attributes are indexed along with the content of the document.   Since, FAST is no longer tightly coupled with the installation of the content server; one has the option of not installing Index  Server. If the Full Text Index server is not installed, simple search will perform a case sensitive database search against  object_name ,  title  and  subject  attributes of dm_sysobject and its subtypes. Th...