Where’s the beef (or my new custom type)?

One of the most common questions from developers who are learning about Documentum for the first time is:
Why doesn’t my custom type show up when I try to create a new document?
In order to create custom object types, most developers read Documentum Application Builder (DAB) User Guide or Content Server Fundamentals.  Creating a new custom [...]

CHANGE OBJECT – good, but not great

Documentum provides application developers the ability to create custom types and further supports the ability to subtype existing system and custom types. This kind flexibility sometimes leads to incorrect object hierarchy design by novice developers.  Instead of analyzing whether attributes should be at the parent or child level, developers haphazardly create custom objects and hope [...]

Documentum + VMware = It really makes sense

Before attending Momentum – this year, I knew very little about how VMware fits in with Documentum architecture. In the past, I have used VM images to set up different configurations for sales demos – this use case is very rudimentary compared to the powerful features that are now available with latest version of [...]