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Configuring Tomcat 6 for HTTPS

Praveena Killamsetty — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:59:58 PDT

To install and configure HTTPS(SSL) support on Tomcat 6, you need to follow these simple steps: 1.Create a certificate keystore by executing the following command: %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA 2.Now you will prompted for a keystore password give it as ‘changeit’. 3.Next, you will be prompted for general information about this Certificate, such [...]

LDAP-Documentum Configuration & Troubleshooting Tips

Zainab Mantri — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:28:24 PDT

Configure LDAP with Documentum. Here are the screen shots of step by step configuration of LDAP with Documentum. It might differ depending on how you want to sync your users and groups in Active Directory with Documentum. Go to Documentum Administrator (DA) -> Administration -> Basic Configuration -> LDAP Servers. Click on File-> New-> LDAP [...]

SQL Formatting Tips for Documentum

Zainab Mantri — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:45:13 PDT

Sometimes we want to play directly with the underlying database or generate outputs in tabular format. It can easily be done in dql (Documentum Query Language) and then imported into Microsoft Excel. SQL does not generate tabular output and needs to be tweaked a little to get the desired results. Here are some tips: Set [...]

Export Documents as ZIP in wdk applications

Praveena Killamsetty — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:51:21 PST

We had a requirement in webtop where the client needed to export the selected documents as a zipped folder into the local client machine. It was interesting and time consuming since we did not want to write any Business Objects for this customization. I looked up a lot about this but couldn’t find a working [...]

Register Custom Types for Documentum FAST Indexing

Zainab Mantri — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:19:53 PST

By default, Index Server indexes all dm_sysobject & it’s subtypes. All objects under that type and it’s subtypes will get full-text indexed, including dm_application, dm_job, job reports and all their attributes. If you want to limit your indexing to dm_document or only some of your custom types (only documents) you can follow the below mentioned [...]

Mandatory attributes in Alfresco 3.1

Zainab Mantri — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:24:10 PST

We ran into some issues with mandatory attributes in Alfresco 3.1 while working on a project for a client. When designing the content model in Alfresco, you can set a property to be mandatory by using this tag <mandatory enforced=”true”>true</mandatory>. The enforced attribute means enforced by the repository, while the value between the tags merely [...]

John Mancini Delivers 8 Reasons

Reva Customer Care — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:50:18 PDT

John Mancini delivers first eBook in "8 Reasons" series and delivers a great guide for information management experts to get focused and get started in improving their organizations information management strategy.

Changing the Starts With Filter in a Webtop 6.5 Object Locator into a Contains Filter

Zainab Mantri — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:18:00 PDT

I've been working on some interesting and useful Webtop customizations. One of them is customizing the locator component to use a contains filter instead of a starts with filter. The locator component is the component that lets you select one or more objects from a list. Now you'd expect this was easily configurable via xml, as did I, but you'll quickly find that it's actually not. However, it's quite easily achieved via Java as I'll soon show you.

Documentum Jobs & Methods

Praveena Killamsetty — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:56:55 PDT

I spent quite some time writing methods in D6.5. Here are some of the pointers I found very useful. Methods: A method is an object in the docbase that lets you launch a program on the server without being logged into the server. Methods enable custom code to run on behalf of the Content Server. [...]

Modifies vs Extends in Documentum 6.5

Praveena Killamsetty — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:18:27 PDT

This was my first project working with D6.5 after working a lot on WDK 5.3 and older versions. D6.5 has this cool new feature of modifying configuration elements instead of the older extending configuration elements.In most cases ‘modifies’ is a better option than ‘extends’ since it modifies the existing element instead of creating a new [...]