DCTM FAQs continued...

Here are the answers to the FAQs (of previous post) on the top of head:

1. What is Documentum all about?
A: Documentum is a Content Management System and has a product suite which caters to different needs of storing and managing content of all types.

2. What do you know about Documentum?
A: I have been working on the Docuementum development for last 2.5 yrs and I have worked on Documentum Desktop Client and DFC (interacted with Documentum Server).

3. What are all the products you have worked?
A: Documentum Server, Documentum Desktop, Webtop, DA, DFC.

4. What are your roles & responsibilities?
A: Fixing bugs and delivering patches to DTC customers. Interacting with DCTM developers and offshore teams. DTC release.

5. How will you do customization using WDK?
A: ??

6. How will you customize a page that shows only my custom type?
A: ??

7. How will you differentiate repeating fields and single value fields
A: Repeating fields have multiple values and single fields have only one value

8. What is workflow?
A: A Workflow formalizes the business process. Any business process such as job approval, engineering development or insurance claims can be modeled into a workflow.

9. What is BOF framework?
A: BOF (Business Objects Framework) is a functionality which allows dctm developers to customize DFC programmatically.

10. What is the object type for workflow?
A: dm_workflow

11. What is the WDK architecture?
A:??
12. what about security in Documentum
A: Security in documentum is enforced by permission levels, ACLs and groups/roles
13. what is the diff between super user and administrator
A: A superuser is a user with higher permission levels than other users. An administrator also have high level of permissions but he will be able to do the administrative tasks such as configuring the docbase, scheduling the jobs, managing the sessions etc.
14. what are all the permissions related to document objects
A: The basic permissions
1. NONE
2. BROWSE
3. READ
4. RELATE
5. VERSION
6. WRITE
7. DELETE
Extended permissions:
1. Change Ownership, Change location, change permission, delete object, execute procedure.

15. what do u mean extended permissions
A:Extended permissions are the permissions stated above and they are not heirarchical.

16. What is dfc & dmcl, differenctiate both.
A: DFC is DCTM foundation class framework which is a set of Java classes to interact with DCTM server. DMCL is the inherent language understood by the server.

Questions from CTS
1. Explain WDK architecture.
A:??
2. Differences between iAPI and DQL
A: iAPI is a set of commands that are given to the server. DQL is the DCTM query language to query the docbase like a database.
3. Under what scenarios will you use iAPI
A: iAPI is used to create objects, check-in and checkout, DQL cannot be used for that purpose.
iAPI is basically used when no other client is available with server
iAPI is also used to cross check the operations performed by the user code.
4. What is a Permission Template?
A: A Permisssion template is an ACL which assigns a set of permissions to a set of users.
5. How do you configure publishing to various locale web sites?
A: ??
6. How will you customize check-in component so that it shows a specific custom attribute while checking in.
A: ??
7. How will you implement the following scenario?
• There is an English site to which we also need a German site. The translation is done by a third party. He sends the file to a person of the organization and they look at it and approve the page before it comes on the German site.
A:??
8. What is docapp and Documentum Application Installer?
A: A docapp is a documentum application which can be installed by documetum app installer. A DOcapp can contain a set of custom objects, attributes, lifecycles and customized forms that can manipulate the docbase.
9. Have you customized DFC?
A: No, but I know that it can be done by the BOF. SBOs or TBOs can be written which are actually a java code which override DFC method to customize their functionality.
10. How do you install a WDK for customizing?
A: ??
11. Do you interact with Documentum clients?
A: Yes
21. What are SBO and TBO?
A: SBO (Service based object) and TBO (Type Based Object) are part of BOF (Business Object Framework). TBOs are most commonsly used, they are a set of java classes to customise the actions on a custom type. For example, a TBO can validate a custom attribute to see if it is unique before a check in is done on the object.An SBO on the other hand is a global BO which is can do a custom general action not specific to any object type.
An example of SBO would be an object which checks for the uniqueness of any attribute of a type.