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Implementing custom fonts on your web site is not always as straight forward as it could be. This article is a case study of the custom font implementation on the Blue Fish web site and illustrates the technical and legal hurdles we had to overcome.

This article will introduce you to the @font-face CSS rule and enable you to use custom web fonts on your site. You'll learn where to obtain properly licensed fonts, how to generate the necessary files, how to put it all together, and finally some performance tuning tips.

This article will introduce you to the concept of web fonts and show you how they can enhance the design and branding of your web site. In addition to covering the technical issues, the article will help you navigate the often confusing licensing issues surrounding web fonts.

This article will give a behind the scenes tour of the Web Publisher Rich Text Editor and will get you started with configuring and customizing it to meet the needs of your business.

Getting started with Alfresco dashlet development can be a little intimidating. Writing the old faithful 'Hello World' dashlet, with its two to three files, is easy enough, but adding real functionality to a new dashlet leaves many beginners lost in a jungle of configuration files and XML. One of the most valuable things a new dashlet can do, and something I struggled mightily with when developing my first dashlets, is provide users with the ability to dynamically configure its behavior. This article shows you how to make your own dashlets accept and manage configuration values, just like the ones from Alfresco.

Robust software begins with solid development practices, and few are as fundamental as having a well laid out source code organizational structure. Unfortunately, when building solutions with Alfresco, many people simply follow the out-of-the-box product’s source structure, inadvertently casting aside source code organization best practices. This article shows you how you can enhance the supportability and maintainability of your Alfresco solutions by using Spring configuration techniques to enable Alfresco to find your source in the source tree of your choosing.

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.