21.1 Limitations of SCS

There are some limitations of SCS and Site Publishing Configurations that you need to bear in mind when designing and planning your website. A few of these have been mentioned below:

• Only objects that are subtypes of dm_sysobject can be published from Documentum Docbase.

  Note that objects such as users, groups, etc., which are subtypes of Persistent Object and not SysObject, cannot be published.

• Content needs to be first linked to the publishing folder in Docbase before it can be published.

• The total length of the Docbase path to the object, the object's name (object_name attribute), and the export directory on the SCS Source should not exceed 255 characters. This is a Windows limitation and does not hold good for UNIX servers.

• On Windows servers, documents with the following characters in their file names cannot be published:

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