3.10 Registered Tables
Most applications maintain some application tables in order to store data specific to the application. These application tables may contain records that Documentum clients need access to. For example, a dropdown in a Documentum client application might need to display a list of all the countries in the world from an external database table, so that the content author can choose one while creating content.
The external database table is not known to the Content Server until you register it. In short, registered tables are the normal RDBMS tables that the Content Server is aware of, in spite of them not being part of the Docbase.
Documentum creates a dm_registered
object for the 'Registered' table, allowing developers to use DQL queries to fetch the information from the table.
The dm_registered
object contains information about the name of the table, table owner, table columns, and access rights defining who has access to query the table and perform operations like insert...