Documentum

Documentum provides the functionality of repeating properties – properties that have more than one value. Retrieving those values is a simple matter of getting the number of values for that property, and then request each one of the values. Here’s a small utility method:

Retrieving the version comments of a Documentum SysObject is an easy task:

When working with Documentum TypedObjects, you almost always need to retrieve their properties. Below is a method to print those properties to the Console. Notice, that this example uses the getAllRepeatingStrings() method – a useful method for displaying values to the user, but not very useful if you need to process and work with the … Read more

I’ve spoke in an earlier post about working with Documentum in .Net. In this post, I’ll show you how to connect to a DocBase, and get the list of cabinets. The following code will connect to a DocBase. It assumes that you have a Username, Password and DocBase variables declared that contain valid information: Now, … Read more

Following version 5 of the Documentum Content Server, security entities can have extended permissions on items. Those extended permissions include: Execute Procedure, Change Location, Change State, Change Permission and Change Ownership. In order to retrieve those permissions by code, it is required to manually check for those permissions. Assuming that you have the object ID … Read more

While adding support for EMC Documentum to the Tzunami Deployer, our SharePoint migration tool, I needed to allow the user to enter the name of a DocBase to connect to. I wanted an interface that is a bit more than just a TextBox where the user can enter the DocBase name. I ended up using … Read more