2.6 Attributes

Attributes are the properties that describe objects in Documentum. For example, for a news article, the name of its author and its creation date can be considered its attributes.

It should be noted that all persistent objects stored in the Docbase are eventually subtypes of the internal persistent object type.

The persistent object type has three attributes that all subtypes inherit. r_object_id is specifically what everyone working with Documentum should understand:

• r_object_id is a unique identifier generated by the Content Server and assigned to all objects at the time of their creation. It should be noted that within the Docbase, no two objects can share the same r_object_id.

• i_is_replica and i_vstamp are internal server-generated attributes normally not required in typical applications.

2.6.1 Object ID (Object Identifier: r_object_id Attribute)

Object IDs are generated by the Content Server whenever a new object is created in a Docbase. These are represented as 16-character...