Enterprise content management

Documentum – xPlore not able to deploy “dsearch.war”

Recently at a customer, I faced a new issue I didn’t see before on the xPlore Dsearch component. Basically, the processes appeared to be starting and the “dsearchadmin.war” was deployed properly but it always failed for the “dsearch.war” upon startup(…)

db-crawler, a database search utility for Documentum

Working with Documentum is often a frustrating experience, and one of the main causes is the lack of meaningful error messages. Be it an encouragment to the administrator or developer to refer to the official knowledge base or a gap(…)

Documentum – r_server_version reset to P00 instead of correct patch version

A few weeks ago, an issue was identified at a customer which would cause the value of “dm_server_config.r_server_version” to be reset to the GA version number (16.4 P00) instead of the currently deployed patch (which is 16.4 P26) and that(…)

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part I)

In the 2-part blog article Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, I showed how to extend the gawk scripting language in order to implement the Documentum dmAPI(…)

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part II)

This is part II of the article DctmAPI.awk revisited. See Part I here. The table presentation can be visually quite rich: it supports row colorization with optional color alternation and gridding, i.e. enclosing the table and(…)

Alfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert doesn’t work

At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will(…)

Documentum – Applying Content-Security-Policy (CSP) on D2 while using WSCTF plugin

If you have ever been working on a sensitive Documentum environment (they are all sensitive, are they not?!), you might already have worked on hardening your Web Servers. One of these aspects is to have a specific set of HTTP(…)

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services 7.1 with High Availability (Repository and Share(…)

Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again

In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema(…)

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)