10.2 Beginning Documentum Design
To templatize the contents on the website, let us just take up the center pane news article design and see how we can manage to create and publish it from Documentum.
If you were to analyze the center pane article meticulously, you would notice that it can be sub-divided into the following sections:
Banner 'Headlines' image
Date of the news article
Body text (main news content)
Full article link (related details)
The idea is to design and create a form in Documentum, using which business users simply need to fill in the relevant details (actual content) and the system then takes care of the look and feel (layout of web page) and publishing to the website host.
In Documentum Web Publisher lingo, such forms are called Templates. A template is nothing but an XML file, having XML elements for each of the Template fields that the user needs to fill in. The behavior and validation of each of the template fields is controlled via a Rules file, which is another XML file...