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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

3.12 Methods and Jobs

Methods are executable programs and scripts in Docbase that can be scheduled to run automatically by jobs, which are Documentum objects (dm_job) that are used to automatically execute method objects. The following sections discuss methods and jobs in detail.

3.12.1 Methods

Method scripts can be written either in Java, Docbasic (Documentum's proprietary language), or some other languages. In Documentum, a method is treated as a method object (dm_method) and its attributes define various method parameters such as execution agent, method type, timeout period, and method arguments. Methods can be executed by the following server execution agents:

Content Server: This is the default execution agent for methods unless a specific execution agent is specified. Content Server is used to execute method objects associated with Docbasic scripts or scripts in other programming languages.
Method Server: This is a daemon process always running while the Docbase is up and is managed...

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3.12.1 Methods

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