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Documentum upgrade project: Configuring NTLM SSO for D2 3.1 SP1

The Documentum D2 3.1 SP1 release is kind of a mix between D2 4.1 APIs (using D2FS in backend) and D2 3.1 front-end. It needs SSO to be fully implemented and the configuration has to be applied for 3.1 as well as for D2FS. For D2FS, the same configuration applies whether you are using the NT Lan Manager (NTLM) or… 

Documentum upgrade project: Wrong icons in D2 search results with xPlore

After migrating from “Fast” to “xPlore” Documentum full-text search engine, our team discovered wrong icons in D2 search results. Documents in checked-out state continued to be displayed with the normal icon, even if xPlore indexed attribute value for “r_lock_owner”. This attribute contains the user name who has checked-out the document. In the following picture, you can see the search result… 

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client and missing icons

The new D2-Client does not correctly display the icon for some formats. This usually happens when the icon.css is not up to date based on the content format in the repository. The solution is to find these formats and update the icon.css. Here is the solution in three simple steps: 1) Find all formats described in icon.css grep -B1 formats icon.css… 

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client, facets and xPlore

To enhance the search capability we had to configure xPlore to use the new customer attributes as facets and configure D2 to use the default and new facets. Configuring xPlore to use facets with the customer attributes Stop the Index Agent and Server Update indexserverconfig.xml by adding the following line (e. g.): Keep only the indexserverconfig.xml file in $DSSEARCH_HOME/config Remove… 

Documentum upgrade project – ActiveX and D2-Client 3.1Sp1

This is another blog posting an our Documentum upgrade project. This time, the following issue occured: the ActiveX could not be installed using the D2-Client. We had to access the D2-Config url to have it installed. For a normal user, this could not be used. Analyzes The workstation had the ActiveX for D2 3.0 installed, the version before the upgrade.…