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HowTo – Work with files in Documentum iAPI

As part of my daily work at our Documentum customers, I often have to work on files like creating some dummy documents, retrieving the content of a specific document on the file system, etc… Documentum does that well internally and some of it can be done through some UIs, like Documentum Administrator, but you don’t always have access to these… 

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite complex machinery, there are just way too many places/configurations that you can have traces/debug information on. Therefore, I also wanted to… 

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually configure it as needed. But once done, it will start displaying information into the logs that can be used to find… 

HowTo – Generate a custom AzureAD SSO Certificate

As you know, Azure Active Directory offers quite a big range of solution for Single Sign-On (SSO) with out-of-the-box capabilities and features that are quite good. But once the initial setup has been done, you will then need to manage all the applications that were on-boarded into it and that can spice things up, especially if you need to work… 

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.). The rendition can then be used for a multitude of use-cases: thumbnails, previsualization purposes online/in a browser, for security/conformity to certain… 

Documentum – xPlore CPS temporary folder not being cleaned properly

At a customer using Documentum inside Kubernetes, unusually frequent restarts of xPlore containers were noted a couple weeks after the introduction of CPS Only pods on the different Production environments. The customer had a very simple Standalone xPlore setup, with Dsearch+IndexAgent, but without CPS Only Nodes. It was noticed at this customer that the indexing and search load was reaching… 

M-Files DACH Partner Days November 2023

On the 20th – 21st November 2023, I was honored to attend my first M-Files DACH Partner days hosted in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event took place in conference hotel van Valk located next to the Düsseldorf Airport. On the first day, I arrived in Düsseldorf as expected without any delay. The first day started in the afternoon with a dedicated… 

Doc.SERIES – The « User Friendly » ECM solution

There are several Electronic Content Management tools (ECM) on the market that are very powerful in their functionalities but are not always easy to configure or maintain, particularly if the size of your company does not allow for a large IT department. However, a good document management in a company is a necessity to: – Avoid administrative pitfalls – Optimize… 

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Play the game

In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In this third part, I will go through what would be needed to really play the game since that was the initial goal. This time again, the first thing… 

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Add questions

In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part, I will go through the REST-API commands that can be used to create new questions with their associated good/bad answers. First of all, I… 

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Repository skeleton

Have you ever wondered how you could use Alfresco to run a Trivia Game? No? Strange, I believe that should be a very important question to ask yourself when you are looking for an ECM for your company! If you have been working or following Alfresco in the past 10 years, you might have heard about the ContentCraft project, which…