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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

Chapter 18. Automatic Property Extraction (APE)

Automatic property extraction (or APE in short) is one of the most powerful and useful features provided by Documentum DFC. One of the most frequent business needs is to automatically set a document's attributes (properties) based on the values set by the content creator in the content template (XML file). Let us understand this through a very simple example.

Imagine a fictitious template that requires users to fill in an Article Title field in the XML template. The requirement is that the value entered by the content creator in this field should be automatically saved in the title attribute (property) of the document as well.

Let's say that the content creator provides the following value for Article Title: Major breakthrough in financial investments. The value is saved in the <ARTICLETITLE> XML element (for example) in the content file created by the user.

Through its Automatic Property Extraction feature (and if configured correctly...

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