0 Replies Latest reply: Apr 10, 2014 12:35 PM by max_drawdown RSS

    Updating a Documentum virtual document with insets and graphics

    max_drawdown Community Member
    max_drawdown Apr 10, 2014 12:35 PM

      (In which forum does this question belong?)

       

      (FM11 with the EMC Documentum connector.)

       

      I understand that the EMC Documentum connector to FM11 creates the "virtual document" resource in Documentum from a FM book and its dependent files. The creation of the virtual document happens when the book is first uploaded from FM11 through the CMS interface to Documentum.

       

      That works for me.

       

      How do I add referenced graphics to, or remove referenced graphics from, a chapter of the book so that the virtual document resource is automatically updated during check-in, check-out, or when I click on a control (that I don't see in the interface) ?

       

      Will a workflow cause the EMC Documentum interface do that?

       

      Or do I need to perform all additions to and deletions from the virtual document through, as an example, the Webtop interface?

       

      Backstory

       

      From work of a colleague last year, I inherited a book with referenced graphics.

       

      The book and all of its chapter files reside in Documentum. A Documentum "virtual document" resources enables me to check out the book so that it and all dependent files become available.

       

      The structure in the Documentum tree, and on the workstation Documentum cache, is similar to this:

      _Book at top level

      _Graphics folder at top level

      _Chapter_1

      _Chapter_2

       

      I have successfully:

      1. Created a graphic file and stored it in _Graphics on my workstation desktop (not the cache)
      2. Uploaded the graphic to the _Graphics folder in Documentum through the Repository Manager.
      3. In a _Chapter_# file, added the graphic to the chapter by reference. Using the Repository Mananger, I selected the graphic file from Step 2. The "progress bar" in FM indicated that FM was downloading the graphic file to the cache.
      4. Saved the chapter file.
      5. Checked in the book through Repository Manager. All of the chapter files and graphics checked in as expected.
      6. Checked out the book through Repository Manager.
      7. Opened the _Chapter_# file from step 3.
      8. FM asks me to identify the location of the new graphic file.
      9. I check the Repository Manager. The new graphic file is not checked out, no apparently it is not part of the book virtual document resource.