3.11 Data Dictionary

The Data Dictionary (DD) in the Docbase stores information about Documentum object types and their attributes. The Data Dictionary is very useful in the following scenarios:

• Value assistance shown to the users

  Example: A dropdown showing the possible set of values for the attribute

• Application of some business-specific rules

  Example: Constraints like 'not null' and 'unique key' on the values of an attribute

DD can support multiple locales and hence one can localize the stored information as per the default locale of various end users. Also, DD information is managed internally by Content Server and can be made available to end users once we publish the data it contains.

At the time of writing this book, the DD information for the following locales is provided by Documentum when the Content Server is installed:

• English

• French

• German

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Spanish