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Use cases

This section describes the use cases covered by Documentum Connector.

Use an image from Documentum
To use an image that is stored in Documentum in a Web site that is managed by SDL Tridion:
  1. Make the asset available in Content Manager (by running the designated workflow process on it).
  2. Use the reference Multimedia Component in a format area or Multimedia Component link field in a Component.
  3. Update the Compound Component Template used; in Template Builder, add the Update Documentum Assets in Package Template Building Block to the template.
  4. Publish a Page containing the Component. The reference Multimedia Component shows as published (that is not default Content Manager behavior).
  5. In Documentum, in the History tab of the object you can see that the object was pushed to SDL Tridion and published.
Use a video from Documentum
To use a video that is stored in Documentum in a Web site that is managed by SDL Tridion:
  1. Make the asset available in Content Manager Tridion (by running the designated workflow process on it).
  2. Use the reference Multimedia Component in a format area or Multimedia Component link field in a Component.
  3. Modify the Dreamweaver Template to use the GetFromDctm function to retrieve the video from Documentum.
  4. Update the Compound Component Template used; in Template Builder, add the Update Documentum Assets in Package and the Publish Binary Variants of Documentum Assets Template Building Blocks to the template.
  5. Publish a Page containing the Component. The reference Multimedia Component shows as published (that is not default Content Manager behavior).
  6. In Documentum, in the History tab of the object you can see that the object was pushed to SDL Tridion and published.
Use a PDF from Documentum
To use a PDF that is stored in Documentum in a Web site that is managed by SDL Tridion:
  1. Make the asset available in Content Manager Tridion (by running the designated workflow process on it).
  2. Use the reference Multimedia Component in a format area or Multimedia Component link field in a Component.
  3. Modify the Dreamweaver Template to use the GetFromDctm function in an HTML <a href=> tag to retrieve the video from Documentum.
  4. Update the Compound Component Template used; in Template Builder, add the Update Documentum Assets in Package and the Publish Binary Variants of Documentum Assets Template Building Blocks to the template.
  5. Publish a Page containing the Component. The reference Multimedia Component shows as published (that is not default Content Manager behavior).
  6. In Documentum, in the History tab of the object you can see that the object was pushed to SDL Tridion and published.
Show the thumbnail and content for a PDF from Documentum
To use a PDF that is stored in Documentum in a Web site that is managed by SDL Tridion, but instead of showing a textual link to the PDF show a thumbnail that Documentum generated of the first page of the PDF:
In the Dreamweaver Template, you need to make two calls to the GetFromDctm function:
@@GetFromDctm(MMLinkField,"jpeg_th", "jpg")@@ @@GetFromDctm(MMLinkField,"pdf", "pdf")@@
  • The first call gets the jpeg_th rendition from Documentum and publishes it as a JPG Multimedia Type.
  • The second call gets the PDF rendition from Documentum and publishes it as a PDF Multimedia Type to the Web site.