2.9 Cabinets and Folders

Objects in the Docbase are organized by placing them within cabinets and folders. Cabinets form the highest level of organization and contain folders, documents and other objects. Objects can reside within cabinets or within folders. Folders are present within cabinets or within other folders.

Organizing objects within cabinets and folders can help us categorize the content better and enables faster searching for critical information.

Cabinet object type in Documentum is dm_cabinet and folder object type is dm_folder. It should be noted that dm_folder is a supertype of dm_cabinet object type.

Figure 2.10 shows a sample cabinet-folder structure in a Docbase as seen in 'Web Publisher' client.