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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2006

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781904811091

Length 484 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Documentum

Concepts

CMS

Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Web Content Management with Documentum

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

1. Preface

1. Content and Documentum FREE CHAPTER

2. Documentum Essentials

3. Documentum Advanced Concepts

4. Web Content Management System

5. Setting Up the Documentum Suite

6. Creating Our First Docbase

7. Setting Up Publishing

8. Setting Up Documentum Application Builder

9. Setting Up Documentum Administrator and Web Publisher

10. Designing Documentum Applications

11. Designing and Creating Custom Object Types

12. Creating Lifecycles, Alias Sets, and Permission Sets

13. Working with Web Publisher Template Files

14. Creating Rules Files

15. Creating Presentation Files

16. Folder Mapping

17. Using Instruction Files

18. Automatic Property Extraction (APE)

19. Working with Workflows

20. Testing Custom Workflows

21. Publishing from Docbase Using SCS

22. Web Viewing Content Files

23. Using DFC

24. Configurations and Customizations Using WDK

25. Documentum Deployment

26. Using DQL and API Commands

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

New Features and Enhancements in Release 5.3

26.2 API

API commands, also referred to as Server API, are instructions or commands sent by clients to Content Server through DMCL.

26.2.1 Command Tools

API commands can be executed via the following means:

The IAPI utility
Web clients such as Documentum Administrator API Tester or Web Publisher

IAPI is short for Interactive API Utility and is available once you install Content Server. On the Content Server host you can find the executable iapi32.exe on Windows machines at the following location:

%DM_HOME%\bin, e.g. C:\Documentum\product\5.2\bin (for example)

You can invoke the executable directly from the command prompt as shown in figure 26.10 or you can click on the IAPI button shown in Documentum Server Manager window (refer to figure 26.11). In both scenarios, you will need to provide details such as Docbase name and user/password before you start issuing API commands.

26.10: IAPI window

Figure 26.11: IAPI button shown in Documentum Server Manager

API commands can be executed from within...

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