Migration tools aren’t just for migrations any more! Using Blue Fish’s new migration tool, Migration Workbench™, it is possible to implement several new and innovative solutions to a variety of content management-related problems. These go beyond what we normally think of when we hear 'content migrations' and address issues such as archiving, publishing, the receipt of data from outside parties, as well as population of test systems.

This article provides an overview of a typical Documentum web publishing environment configuration - what each of the components do and when to use the optional components and products.

Many of the good design decisions and development habits that we follow to create usable websites can help make your website accessible to the visually impaired - even if the law does not mandate your website to be Section 508 compliant. This article shares some tips on how to ensure compliance while building a usable and accessible website.

The WDK Combo Container provides a flexible, extensible framework for driving multiple instances of a specific component in response to a multiselect action. Although customization can be dangerous, with the right context and careful planning the framework can be adapted to a wide array of situations. This article provides an introduction to the WDK Combo Container mechanisms, including Multiselect Argument Decoding, Value Propagation, and Auto-Commit.

Make your Documentum workflow integration resilient to outages with automated recovery. This article discusses the details of an implementation strategy.

Currently, EMC provides no officially supported mechanisms for creating, updating, and/or deploying BOF modules in a fully automated manner from source code to a target docbase. Thankfully, Documentum Application Builder ships with an Ant task, "BOFPackaging", that we can use to deploy new modules to a Documentum repository. But while the automated "BOFPackaging" task represents a significant improvement over manual deployments, it too can be inefficient at times. To address this problem, I created a generic, commandline application, FileLoader, which can add new files or update existing files in a docbase.

Are you interested in keeping your Web Publisher environments fresh with the latest content and templates? In this article, we'll explore some of the challenges with migrating web content and templates between environments and outline the key elements for successful web content synchronization.

Implementing common technology solutions is a standard way to drive down IT development and support costs. However, initiatives to implement these common solutions often fail to deliver the expected value or simply flat out fail. One reason for these failures is that all too often companies try to implement the wrong type of common solution. This article explores this conclusion and presents a model your organization can use to avoid this common mistake.

As part of the new Documentum 6 platform, EMC has introduced Documentum Composer, a new application for packaging and deploying Documentum artifacts. This article aims to provide an initial introduction to the Composer application, including some core concepts, a discussion of major changes from the world of Documentum Application Builder (DAB) and Documentum Application Installer (DAI), and some tips and tricks to make using Composer easier and less problematic.

Tired of cataloging your company's digital images on file shares, standalone web solutions, or on CDs in a filing cabinet? Blue Fish built a photo library solution that allows employees to one stop shop on a client's corporate intranet for images. Using Web Publisher Categories, content administrators can maintain the photo library in the same familiar web application already used to author web pages. This article explains how to bring this unique experience to your WCM solution!

Internationalizing Endeca-powered applications presents a number of unique challenges. This article discusses some of these challenges and discusses solutions for them. It assumes a solid understanding of the Endeca platform and Endeca Developer Studio.

Application monitoring should not only confirm that system components are running, but should make sure they are functioning properly. This paper discusses a strategy we employed for a complex Documentum based system.

As an enterprise attempts to empower knowledge workers, they face challenges with how to ensure that information that is disseminated is also protected. Information Rights Management solves this problem by providing security policies and encryption on critical content. Recently, a number of key players in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space have integrated IRM technologies into their platforms. In 2006, EMC acquired Authentica, allowing Documentum to provide IRM capabilities to its users. This article will explore Documentum IRM Services features as well as how IRM Services integrates into a typical Documentum architecture.

This article provides tips for improving Web Publisher usability in both the 5.3 and D6 releases.

This article provides Documentum developers and testers with an introduction to the WDK 6.0 test framework distributed by EMC. The article walks you through the steps of creating and verifying a basic Webtop test, presents some tips and tricks to help you avoid problems, and provides an overview of the test framework’s advanced testing features.

Currently, EMC provides no officially supported mechanisms for creating, updating, and/or deploying BOF modules in a fully automated manner from source code to a target repository. Thankfully, Documentum Application Builder ships with an Ant task, "BOFPackaging", that we can use to deploy new modules to a Documentum repository.

The web design landscape has changed a great deal in the last few years as web standards have gradually gained acceptance and modern browser support for CSS support has greatly improved. The benefits of semantic markup are generally accepted without much argument. Tables are no longer used for layout. Markup is clean and lean. These are all admirable achievements, however, the benefits of flexible, reusable markup are rarely discussed. These benefits are especially important when designing page templates for content management systems. In this article, I’ll show you how to employ some simple markup hooks and CSS strategies that can go a long way when reusing code or redesigning a site.

Lifecycle state extensions are a powerful tool for Documentum developers in that they allow the addition of custom attributes to lifecycle states. This article shows you how to create and access custom lifecycle state extensions for Documentum.

This article discusses the new features and enhancements in the upcoming 6.0 version of Endeca's flagship product.

This article describes how to write and use custom utility methods in Migration Workbench.

When migrating content from one system to another, don't forget about the data that accompanies the content.

This paper will describe an approach to content migrations which mitigates or eliminates many of the challenges typically faced. By introducing the concepts of incremental migrations, live-to-live migrations, dynamic cutover, and rules-based attribute mappings, this new approach improves the efficiency of the migration process and reduces the negative impacts to users.

Whether you're a web developer or an administrator, understanding the publishing jobs in Documentum can help you create, automate, and refine the best features of your web content management solution. This article provides an introduction to the jobs used in the Documentum web publishing environment: what they are, recommended settings, and troubleshooting tips for some of the more common errors.

Are you one of the many business leaders today looking to launch and lead a major initiative to mature the information management practices across your organization? Are you candidly searching for answers on where to begin (your first bite)? If so, this article may provide you with a way forward.

This article discusses the Google Search Appliance, and some aspects to consider when deciding whether it might be the appropriate search solution.

This article will explain how to deploy a basic Endeca pipeline quickly and easily using the Endeca deployment template.

Custom lifecycle modules are a very powerful tool for Documentum developers in that they allow the addition of custom business logic to lifecycle states. This article shows you how to create custom Java lifecycle modules for Documentum.

This article explores Documentum search features with a heavy focus on the Java DFC APIs related to search.

This article discusses considerations and strategies for Endeca deployments involving large amounts of data. It assumes familiarity with Endeca concepts and Endeca Developer Studio.

The intent of this article is to describe a migration approach we often see our clients attempt and to point out a number of key problems and concerns associated with this approach. Hopefully this article will help you avoid some common pitfalls when you are planning a migration, building a custom migration tool, or evaluating an off-the-shelf tool.

Integrating Web Publisher and WordPress is a straight forward technical problem that can add huge business value to WCM solutions by leveraging both systems' strengths. This article discusses the steps Blue Fish took to integrate WordPress with Web Publisher, allowing our authors to write blog entries that are managed safely within Documentum.

This article provides a practical example-based introduction to client programming with the out-of-the-box DFS services.

This article provides an overview of Web Publisher Contributor, a scaled-down user interface available with Documentum Web Publisher 5.3sp4 and later releases.

This article discusses Endeca's growing interest in "behind-the-firewall" opportunities.

Multiple document management systems tend to evolve into a single Enterprise Content Management system. This article explores the benefits - expected and unexpected - that are driving this trend.

This article gives an overview of Documentum’s Content Server OEM Edition, a version of the Content Server that can be embedded as a back-end component in other software products.

This article describes how to use mock objects to perform offline testing of code written using Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC). Offline testing greatly simplifies the process of unit testing DFC code, because it eliminates the need for a live Documentum server.

With over $275 billion in assets under management, Evergreen Investments, the asset management division of Wachovia Bank, has thousands of employees accessing its financial information. But finding the right report out of over 8000 isn't easy. Explore how Evergreen worked with Blue Fish to employ Web Publisher for the Investnet intranet site, offering a dynamic, secure, and easy to use repository for the roughly 900,000 employee downloads the site sees every year.

The Content Server OEM Edition repackages the Content Server in a format that can be embedded in third-party products on an OEM basis. In this session, we introduce Content Server OEM Edition, compare and contrast it to the standard Content Server, and share experiences embedding it into a standalone product.

Writing effective JUnit tests for DFC code can be difficult, especially when issues like security, setting up docbase state, and tearing down docbase state are taken into consideration. In this session, we discuss the obstacles and demonstrate a basic framework for testing DFC code.

This demo shows how Blue Fish's WCM Solutions using Navigation Manager and EMC's Documentum Web Publisher empower and enable non-technical content administrators to quickly create and maintain static and dynamic web pages.

Have you ever noticed how many different Web Content Management solutions are for sale out there? I think I know why. This article describes the types of web content management solutions that are out in the marketplace and the main business drivers that companies have for purchasing them.

Remember, it's not all about the technology and the wonderful new features and advantages of the new system. Hopefully this article will help you recognize the need to include migration planning as an integral part of your new and upgrading systems initiatives, thereby ensuring willing adoption by your user community.

This article explores six hypothetical migration scenarios from a high-level.

This article describes the 2007 changes to Daylight Saving Time, how those changes will effect your Documentum installations, and how to mitigate the risks associated with the changes.

This presentation focuses on technical issues with integrating Documentum to another enterprise application. Specific technical topics include folder synchronization, content synchronization, and translation of disparate security models. An overview of Documentum synergies with 3rd party apps and discussion of common integration points are also covered by this presentation.

Writing effective JUnit tests for DFC code can be difficult, especially when issues like security, setting up docbase state, and tearing down docbase state are taken into consideration. This presentation discusses the obstacles and provides a basic framework for testing DFC code.

At Momentum 2004, Allergan shared its plans for migrating half a million documents from four disparate, outdated systems while upgrading to EMC Documentum Compliance Manager 5. Eighteen months later, the migration is complete. Join Allergan for the good, the bad, and the ugly of managing such a large project in a controlled environment. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with David McDonagh from Allergan.

Thanks to a new e-Governance initiative, private citizens and elected representatives now have access to a clearinghouse of federal rule-making information. Learn about how this public website was created and how it enables all citizens to make their voices heard by reviewing and commenting on federal rule-making documents. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Vic Forney from Lockheed Martin.

Empowering business users to update their own Web content is tricky. The more autonomy you give the business users, the more likely it is that your Web site lacks focus and strays from corporate standards. This presentation, given at EMC’s Momentum 2006 conference, reviews how Blue Fish helped Bausch & Lomb master this challenge and improve consistency of their master brand along the way.

With the continuing business trend of outsourcing to trusted partners, how do you assimilate the mountains of documentation they produce? This presentation offers a solution for getting large amounts of off-site information into your repository in a controlled manner. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Dave Szweda from Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

Wells Fargo implemented EMC Documentum Web Publisher in 2002. The solution provides control over "look and feel" and site navigation while also giving layout and content flexibility to marketing authors. In 2006, Wells Fargo streamlined the interface to improve usability. This session provides an in-depth look at this new solution, including wizards and a custom dashboard for business authors. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Gregory Close from Wells Fargo.

Planview's portfolio management solutions help organizations more efficiently manage and govern their IT investment portfolios. Learn how Planview leveraged Web services to integrate its own .NET based solution with EMC Documentum, allowing its customers to store project-related documents within the EMC Documentum repository. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Tim Harmon from Planview.

Is your knowledge management system helping you make the right business decisions? Hear BHP Billiton Petroleum explain how it leverages EMC Documentum to efficiently sift through mountains of information to influence decisions that can create hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Sam Clayton from BHP Billiton.

Learn how to use the Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) and the Documentum Query Language (DQL) to perform basic document management activities.

This article will introduce the reader to the concept of "scope" as used in the WDK framework, specifically addressing fundamental framework services and related design and implementation details that should be understood when customizing and developing WDK-based application

This document provides some tips, tricks, and sample code for using the Documentum 5.3 Web Services Framework from a Java client.