CMS 4 Dummies Glossary

Glossary

Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:39 Written by Troy Martin
Term

Description
   
Accessibility Access by everyone regardless of a disability such as visual impairment. For example, in the Accessibility Mode, Webtop menus are replaced with links along with descriptive text.
   
Active The state in the lifecycle of a content file that is in use on one or more active Web site(s)
   
Activity A design-time definition of who does what in a workflow. When you design a workflow template, you specify a sequence of activities. In Documentum Records Manager, this refers to an electronic note, which can be applied privately or publicly to documents, is kept for the entire lifecycle of the document and cannot be altered or deleted once entered.
   
Activity template Activities with custom parameters and configuration information. Activity templates allow activities to be re-used in multiple business processes.
   
Administrator The Documentum user responsible for installing and configuring Documentum to meet specific organizational requirements.
   
Alias A placeholder for user names, group names, folder paths or permission sets
   
Alias set Set of user names, group names or folder locations mapped to an alias. An alias set object contains one or more alias names that can be used as placeholders for example in template ACLs, in certain SysObject attributes or workflow definitions.
   
API Application Program Interface. An API is a collection of methods prescribed by an application program by which another application can send requests to it. For example, Server API methods are executed by the Documentum Desktop to access the Content Server
   
Application Builder Formerly known as Developer Studio, this is a development tool that allows application developers to quickly create and easily maintain Documentum Desktop to access the Content Server
   
Application Server A server program that provides the business logic for an application. BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are examples of application servers.
   
Approved The state in lifecycle of a content file prior to the active state. The content file becomes active on the effective date or when an approved content file is manually promoted.
   
ASP Active Server Page. This is page containing HTML and JavaScript or VBScript that are processed on the server side (typically Microsoft Internet Information Server) and the resulting HTML page is sent to a client browser.
  Application Service Provider. An ASP is a company that develops applications for customers that are then hosted on an application server. Customers access these applications via the Internet for a fee that is nominal than if the application were developed and hosted in-house.
   
Assembly  
  An object that is a snapshot of a virtual document's structure at a given point in time.
   
Attribute Also known as a Property, this is a data item that describes an object of a given type. You add attributes to an object type using Documentum Application Builder. For example, r_modify_date is an attribute of the dm_sysobject type that contains the date the object was last modified.
   
Audit Trail Records important events in a workflow. Audit trail entries include event date, event identifier, workflow identifier, performer name, and activity name.
   
Authenticity  
  A term used in Records Manager to describe the condition that proves that a record is genuine based on its mode (i.e., method by which a record is communicated over space or time), from (i.e., format or media that a record has upon receipt), state of transmission (i.e., the primitiveness, completeness and effectiveness of a record when it is initially set aside after being made or received), and manner of preservation and custody.
   
Authoring Integration Services Provides a set of standards-based services for seamless integration between the Documentum repository and the authoring tools people use to create and edit content. .Authoring Integration Services supports some of the most popular file access protocols so that getting content into and out of Documentum is easier and requires minimal end user training.
   
Automation Services The feature that implements SmartTagging and SmartCategorization based on meta-data and Content Intelligence Services conceptual models and propagates these Content Intelligence Services-defined properties and classifications back to Docbase(s)
   
Basic permissions Definitions of what actions users can take on objects in a Docbase. The seven basic permissions in hierarchical order are: NONE, BROWSE, READ, RELATE, VERSION, WRITE and DELETE
   
Batch update A set of multiple update operations submitted to database as a single unit for processing all at once.
   
Binding rule A rule that identifies which version of a component to include in your virtual document.
   
BLOB Binary Large Object. A contiguous sequence of binary values that may be several megabytes or more size.
   
BPM Business Process Management. BPM is a Documentum solution that provides features and services necessary for the design, execution, and monitoring of business processes as well as managing the integration of the process activities with processes or systems beyond the Documentum-managed enterprise. To achieve this, the BPM solution offers two products: Business Process Manager and Business Process Services.
   
Broken binding A binding in which the version of a component required for a virtual document does not exist in the Docbase.
   
Business Objects Framework An extension of DFC that allows the creation of business objects that add custom functionality or override existing functionality.
   
Business Process Manager Used by workflow designers to create business process templates using a graphical user interface. It builds on the Workflow Manager product in that it includes advanced features such as the support for activity templates and e-mail templates for event notification.
   
Business Process Services Replaces Inter-Enterprise Workflow Services as the product used to extend Documentum-managed processes including workflow beyond the enterprise. It is a set of API that support sending and receiving messages using protocols such as JMS, SOAP, HTTP and SMTP.
   
Category In Web Publisher, this is a folder used to store content file templates pages. Users navigate through categories and sub-categories to find a content file template to use.
  In Content Intelligence Services (CIS), this is a classification of information. CIS uses categories to turn unstructured content into intelligent, structured content to enable more accurate searching, easier navigation, and more effective personalization of enterprise content.
   
Change set In Web Publisher, this is a group of content files that travel together through workflows and share the same lifecyle. If a change set effective date is set, all files in the change set also publish to the active Web site(s) at the same time
   
Channels The entity into which a Web application or a group of files are package in order to be transmitted to a Web farm.
   
Check In The process of saving any changes to an object's content in a Docbase and unlocking the object.
   
Check out The process of taking a document from the Docbase to your Local Files or Checked Out Files folder and locking it in the Docbase.
   
Child document A descendant component of a virtual document.
   
Client Capability Is an attribute of a Documentum user that determines what he/she can do from a client application. For example, a user with the capability of a Consumer can only search and view content as needed. A Contributor, on the other hand, can crate content.
   
COM Component Object Model. This is a Microsoft technology that provides an architecture allowing applications to be built from sofewaqre components. These components are reusable and are made up of client and server components.
   
Comment Also Known as an Annotation, this a note that is attached as a virtual sticky note to a PDF (portable display format) file.
   
Component Each document added to a virtual document.,
   
Compound document A type of virtual document in which the child documents are defined within and derived from the content of the parent virtual document.
   
Connection A session with a data source such as a database opened by an application program, so called because it represents a connection between the program and a (usually remote) database.
   
   
Connection broker A program that provides session information to clients so that the correct Content Server may be found in order to connect to a particular Docbase. Connection brokers store information about Content Servers (also DocBroker).
   
Connection pooling A facility whereby physical connections to a data source can be stored and reused. Connection Pooling improves performance because it saves the overhead of having to create a new connection every time a connection is requested.
   
Content Anything that best conveys information to the user and is stored electronically as a file of a particular type sch as a document, Web page or an XML document.
   
Content Authentication Services These services have a Web-based user interface that provides electronic record management, audit trails, and electronic signature management.
   
Content author The Web Publisher user responsible for creating and authoring new content files without getting involved in the technical details associated with Web site creation or maintenance.
   
Content Distribution Services Based on a J2EE architecture, this product allows customers to distribute content from a Documentum repository, a file system or a database table to a destination file system using standard protocols including ICE, FTP, or SMTP.
   
Content Intelligence Services. Formerly known as Content Personalization Services, this is a server product that enhances Documentum by automating organization, attribute tagging and retrieval of cocuments from Docbases. CIS Supports Automation Services, Docbase SmartTagging and SmartCategorization.
   
Content Management  
  The automated control of content of various formats from initial creation to final archiving. It includes dynamic assembly and personalized delivery to users on a global basis.
   
Content Manager The Web Publisher user responsible for ensuring that Web page content is in accordance with presentation requirements and business policies of the company. The content manager assigns content to be written or updated and functions as the general gatekeeper for Web page content.
   
Content Rendition Formerly known as Auto Render Pro, this is an application that generates PDF and HTML renditions of content stored in repository. With Content Rendition Services, users can automate the process of creating Web-ready renditions to keep all content versions in sync.
   
Content Server Documentum's core server technology, which governs the content repository and enables a rich set of content management services for controlling both content and processes throughout and between distributed enterprises. Through capabilities such as integrated workflow, process automation, robust security, lifecyle services, and a data dictionary for capturing and configuring business rules and best practices, Content Server makes it easy to define, organize, and monitor all the functions and tasks involved in creating and delivering trusted content.
   
Content Services for EMC Centera Provides seamless integration between Documentum and EMC Centera, empowering EMC Centera users to store documents online with a guarantee of immutability and authenticity.
   
Content Services for Lotus Notes Mail An integration between the Lotus Notes Mail client and Documentum Content Server that supports participation in content review cycles and e-mail archiving through Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes users can apply true industrial-strength content management across the enterprise while avoiding the maintenance and training costs associated with the deployment of an additional desktop client.
   
Content Services for SAP An integrated suite of products that enhances SAP with robust content management capabilities. Content Services for SAP provides additional services that integrate corporate content and SAP-generated content with SAP processes in a paperless distributed, electronic environment.
   
Content template A Web Publisher template file that is copied and saved as a new content file when an author creates new content.
   
Copy behavior Options that govern how a virtual document is copied.
   
CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets are design templates that control the presentation of HTML files.
   
Custom Tags Feature in the J2EE platform with which users can define their own custom tags and use them in a JSP. These tags are executed on the server side.
   
DA Documentum Administrator. A client product with a Webtop-based user interface that allows the administering of all repositories servers, users, and groups, regardless of their location across the enterprise.
   
DART DocApp Run-Time. DART is the run-time Documentum Desktop component that determines if the content requested by the DocApp is available locally.
   
Data Dictionary Stores information about types of their attributes. Developers do not have direct access to the data dictionary, but the IAPI tool or DFC may be used to obtain information about the defined types.
   
Database Web server A repository that contains the database tables used by Web sites.
   
Database Web server A repository that contains the database tables used by Web sites.
   
DCA Dynamic Content Assembler. It provides the code to define and assemble complex documents created for a specific business process. DCA comprises of both client and server components.
   
Deep copy Making a copy of a virtual document that includes the root and all components of the virtual document.
   
Deployment Manager This is Web Publisher's GUI utility used to manage the deployment of Web sites
   
Descendent Any virtual document component other than the root document.
   
Destruction In Records Manager, this is the primary type of disposal action. Methods of destroying records include selling or salvaging the record medium and burning, pulping, shredding, macerating, or discarding it with other waste materials.
   
DFC Documentum Foundation Class. It provides an object-oriented interface to communication with the Content Server. It co-exists with the DMCL on the client and the Content Server. DFC enables rapid development of scalable, componentized JSP, Web, and custom applications.
   
Digital Asset Manager  
  A Webtop-based application that allows users working with images, audio and video to manage such digital content using functionality such as thumbnails, storyboards, and streaming. Integrations with authoring tools that support WebDAV are also available
   
Disposition In Records Manager, this is the act of disposing of record items as determined through their appraisal. Typical disposition actions include transfer to long-term storage, destruction, or preservation for archival purposes.
   
DMCL DocumentuM Client Library. It manages the communication between the client and the Content Server.
   
DocApp An application that encapsulates Docbase related objects and processes that are specific to a business or department. DocApps usually contain object types, attributes, lifecycles, workflows alias sets, and content templates.
   
Docbase A repository of documents on a server. A Docbase stores a document's content as well as its properties. These properties are accessible through an RDBMS while the content is in a file storage system managed by the OS (also Repository)
   
Docbase Administrator A user that completes Docbase administrative tasks.
   
Docbroker A program that provides session information to clients so that the correct Content Server may be found in order to connect to a particular Docbase. Docbrokers store information about Content Servers (also Connection Broker).
   
Document An object in a Docbase. It may be of any data type including text, graphics, video, audio or even an executable program. A document may be related to other documents in the Docbase and contain information about its origin and identity.
   
Document Compliance Manager Allows users in highly regulated industries to create, review, revise, approve, and distribute controlled documents via a Web-based user interface to meet stringent quality goals and compliance requirements.
   
Documentum Desktop Formerly known as Desktop Client, this application provides a familiar Windows desktop environment for managing content in content repository. Services include the management of lifecycles and workflows.
   
Documentum FTP Services Formerly known as ftplntegrator, this product is a direct integration between the Documentum content repository and any Web authoring tool that supports file transfer protocol over a TCP/IP network. With FTP Services, users can securely transfer any content into the repository – regardless of file format. For example, site developers and administrators can import template files and other Web components.
   
DOM Document Object Model. It provides a standard API for accessing an XML document as a tree.
   
Domain Map A map (data model) of concepts, concept types, and the relationships among them, tailored to a particular subject area. The domain map is used to crate resource models.
   
DQL Documentum Query Language. It is a SQL-like language that allows the client to query the Docbase. It provides additional content management-specific extensions to SQL.
   
Draft The initial state of a workflow template
   
DTD Document Type Definition. It identifies the elements and attributes of an XML instance and the context in which they can occur.
   
Dynamic Group A group whose members are dynamically added to or removed from the group by a client application at runtime. Dynamic groups allow administrators to control permissions and access based on client application and user location.
   
Dynamic Performer The performer of an activity in a workflow who is selected dynamically when the workflow is initiated by the initiator or by the performer of another activity when the workflow iis underway
   
Edition A snapshot of a Web site at a specific point in time.
   
EDM Server A server that controls access to a Docbase. EDM server is the old (pre-4i) name for Content Server.
   
EDMS Enterprise Document Management System. It manages the changes and availability of business-critical documents and provides automated control of document lifecycles and workflows.
   
Effective The status of a content file that is ready to be published to an active Web site. Web Publisher makes effective Web page active when the effective date occurs or when the effective Web age is manually promoted.
   
Effective date The date a Web Publisher content file will be published to an active Web site.
   
eRoom A digital workplace for distributed teams to collaborate on content and processes. This application includes features like project planning tools, discussion thread, and drag-and-drip file sharing.
   
Event notification An item in your inbox that notifies you when an event has occurred in the Docbase.
   
Expiration date The date a Web Publisher content file will be removed from an active Web site.
   
Expired  
  The state of a Web Publisher content file after it is removed from an active Web site. The content file becomes expired when the expiration date occurs or when an active content file is manually expired.
   
Extended permissions The definition of actions individuals can take on specific objects beyond the actions allowed by basic permissions. These include Change Location, Change Owner, Change Permission, Run Procedure and Change State.
   
Feature An action, or link in Web Publisher.
   
Federation A group of Docbases that have one governing Docbase and other member Docbases.
   
File format The type of file often indicated by the file extension to the right of the period.
   
Firewall Provides isolation between the servers and the Internet, protecting the servers from various forms of security and service attack.
   
Flow The movement of packages, their properties, and dependencies between connected activities in workflow template.
   
Folder The Docbase location for documents such as Web pages and other files. The Docbase stores these items in a hierarchy of folders.
  In Records Manager, this refers to a physical folder containing about an inch of paper-based correspondence, such as letters, memos, contract, etc
   
Folder mapping The assigning of a Web Publisher page to a specific folder or subfolder in the Docbase. When a new Web page is created, its property values determine which rule in a folder map is applied.
   
Freeze To lock an assembly so that no one can edit the components or modify the structure of the assembly.
   
Frequently Used List Is a list of types of pages that are most frequently created by the Web Publisher user. The user decides what page types to include in this list. The list appears when the user clicks the CREATE PAGE tab.
   
FTDQL FTDQL is a subset of the SELECT statement syntax that queries the fulltext index rather than the repository. Using FTDQL provides performance benefits.
   
FTP File Transfer Protocol. FTP is an Internet protocol that supports the transfer of files between computers.
   
Full-text index An index of words in all documents that Docbase users have asked to include in the index.
   
Group A set of users. The users in a group can be individual users, groups of users or a combination of both.
   
GUI Graphical User Interface. GUI is an application that uses elements such as windows, menus, and buttons, and so on to enable the user to interact with it.
   
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
   
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
   
ICE Information and Content Exchange. It is a protocol that is more robust than FTP or SMTP because it supports content exchange features such as content verification and delivery confirmation. Documentum Content Distribution Services includes a client application that supports content delivery using ICE.
   
IDE Integrated Development Environment
   
Inbox An electronic repository for items that require your attention.
   
Informal review In a informal review, you send a content file to another user for review without using a predefined workflow.
   
Initiation Sometimes known as Instantiation, this is the act of creating a workflow object from a workflow template.
   
Inline assembly An assembly created within a virtual document or assembly
   
InputAccel Capture for Documentum This product from Captiva enables users to input information in the form of paper, fax and microfiche and transform it into electronic data, convert it into a usable format, and then store it automatically in the Documentum repository, InputAccel Capture for Documentum gives organization s a better way to coordinate and ensure the integrity of incoming data and helps them turn it into business-ready content.
   
Installed One of the three allowable states for a workflow template
   
Internationalization Also referred to as I18N, this is design of software products so that they can be adapted to local languages. An example of this is Documentum's support of the Unicode universal character set that provides multilingual capabilities within a single content repository.
   
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition. This is a set of API from Sun Microsystems that represents a single standard for enterprise applications and supports building of multi-tier applications. J2EE provides “Write Once, Run Anywhere” portability.
   
JDBC Java DataBase Connection. It is the standard API for data access on the Java 2 platform. JDBC drivers can be used to access data from within servlets, JSP or any Java code.
   
JDBC Services Allow J2EE-compliant applications to access Content Server or Site Caching Services from any, portal, or personalization server. Documentum JDBC Services are certified on BEAWebLogic, IBM WebSphere, ATG Dynamo, and Oracle 9iAS.
   
JMS JAVA Messaging Services. Protocol that supports messaging to a queue and/or publishing message to topics. Queues and topics are like objects on an application server
   
JNDI Java Naming and Directory Interface. It enables the use of a logical name to connect to a database instead of hard coding a particular database and driver
   
JS JavaScript
   
JSP Java Server Page. This resides on the server and consists of Java code, custom tags and/or scripts. A JSP engine processes a request for a JSP by executing the Java code and/or scripts on the server side and sending the results to Web browser.
   
Keyword A property of a content file that can be used to locate the content file in a search.
   
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A server using LDAP allows users to access information on a network including the names of people, shared resources such as printers, and documents. It differs from DNS in that it uses more “natural” directory entries rather than domain names and their corresponding IP addresses.
   
Lifecycle A process that allows users to move a document through a series of stages defining the object's life.
   
Lifecycle state T of properties, security, ownership, location, and content. For example, the typical states in a Web Publisher lifecycle are Staging, Effective, Active, and Expired.
   
Link The act of creating a connection between objects.
   
Local copy A read-only file that is copied from a Docbase and pasted to Local Files folder without being checked out of the Docbase.
   
Local files Documents stored in your local Files folder, including local copies and checked-out files.
   
Local files folder A folder on your desktop computer containing checked-out files and local copies
   
Localization Also referred to as I10n, this is the process of adapting a product to a particular language. For example, Documentum's Language Packs add French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean client user interfaces and documentation to core English client products.
   
Locator object A shortcut created in a 3.x Docbase that has been upgraded to a 4.0 Docbase.
   
OS Operating System. An OS such as Windows 2000 or Unix is a program that must run on a computer before any other programs are installed. It performs several functions including memory allocation, communication with hardware, and so on.
   
Package A container for the document, folders or virtual documents that are routed in a workflow.
   
Page A document created with HTML that is viewed through a Web browser.
   
Page type A content template available to the content author and content manager. When a content author or content manager creates a new content file, they select a a page type.
   
Palette The location in Workflow Manager of activity and workflow objects that are used to build workflow templates.
   
Parent document Any component of a virtual document that has decendents.
   
Performer A user or group in your company that is assigned an activity to perform in a workflow
   
Permission A property that determines what operations users can perform on an object (for example, view, edit, or delete).
   
Persistent Cache A cache of Docbase objects and query results available across client sessions. Persistent caching preserves cached content during shutdown and startup of DMCL and avoids repeatedly retrieving objects that are accessed infrequently
   
Placeholder A no-content document that reserves a location in a virtual document for a content file to be created later.
   
Portal A Web site that acts as an anchor site by providing the user access to the Web and other personalized services such as e-mail, weather , news, and so on.
   
Portlet A component of a portal. See Documentum Portlets.
   
Presentation file A Web Publisher template file that controls the final “look and feel” of the Web page on the Web site.
   
Privilege A property that determines what sets of permissions are assigned to users.
   
Process workflow The standard way of routing a Web Publisher content file to other users. The process workflow is integrated with the lifecycle so that the content file can be automatically promoted when approved by a reviewer.
   
Property Also Known as an Attribute, this is a characteristic of an object in the Docbase. A Docbase object can have many different properties associated with it. Each property can take on multiple values. For example, the format property could take on the value of .htm, .doc, or .xsl.
   
Query reference object A shortcut that contains the properties and address of the target object.
   
RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System. Relational databases contain data stored in predefined tables that maybe related to one another. Oracle and SQL Server are tow RDBMS used by Documentum.
   
Record Recorded information, regardless of medium or characteristics, made or received by an organization that is evidence of its operations, and has value requiring its retention for a specific period of time.
   
Records Manager This product manages the retention and disposition of all records – physical and electronic. Content is secured, versioned and organized for easy review. Records Manager is designed for complicance with UK-PRO, ISO and other archiving standards.
   
Records Services for Email Archives inbound, outbound internal e-mail message leveraging the scalability and security of the Documentum repository. It helps to achieve compliance with regulations and statutes such as the Sabanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC 17A, NASD 3010, the U.K. Data Protection Act and others as well as with requirements imposed by corporate policy or industry standards.
   
Rendition A copy of a content file that differs from the original only in the format of the content.
   
Repeating attribute A property that can have more than one value.
   
Replica A copy of a content file found in a Docbase in a location other than that of the original document.
   
Replication The periodic copying of content from one Docbase to another.
   
Repository A repository stores a document's content as well as its properties. These properties are accessible through an RDBMS while the content is in a file storage system managed by the OS (also Docbase)
   
Retention In Records Manager, this is the period of time a record must be kept according to operational, legal, regulatory, and fiscal requirements.
   
RightSite Server The Documentum 4.x technology that enables standard client Web browsers to retrieve data from a Docbase.
   
Role A group containing a set of users, other groups , or both that are assigned a particular role within a client application domain. The client application is responsible for determining the role to which the user belongs and ensuring that the user performs only the actions allowed for members of that role.
   
Root document The document on which you base your virtual document.
   
Round-robin Cycling through a list of team members to receive workflow tasks in order from one team member to another team member.
   
Router Version of workflow from a 3.x Docbase. Active routers from 3.x Docbases convert to 4.0 Docbases. These routers continue to run until completed. However, new instances of routers cannot be created.
   
Router Manager A feature that enables you to perform a task that has been assigned to you by a router
   
Rules file A template file that controls the items on the Web Publisher Editor form that authors use to create content
   
SAX Simple API for XML. This is an event based API for working with XML documents. Most parsers and common programming languages support SAX interfaces. Unlike the DOM, SAX is typically used to parse specific elements in an XML document.
   
Shortcut A pointer to an object located in the Docbase. Shortcuts allow quick and easy access to objects.
   
Site Caching Services Formerly known as WebCache, this product is designed to push the contents (Web pages) of an entire Web site from a delivery cabinet in the Docbase to an external file system. Site Caching Services deploys content to multiple Web sites, application servers, or directories, based on configurable rules that maximize access speeds while protecting secure content. The Site Caching Services repository serves up both general and personalized content and stores snapshots of the site at defined points in time, enabling easy rollback to previous versions.
   
Site Deployment Services Formerly known as Content Caster, this is a tool that allows your organization to manage the distribution of Web site content and metadata from a development server to multiple production Web sites.
   
SMART Smart Retrieval Tool. SMART provides a textual interface for retrieving resources based on concept types, concepts, resource properties, resource taxonomies, sample documents, or full text. In addition to resource retrieving, SMART is used for defining resource taxonomies, rules for auto-attributing.
   
Smart List A saved, reusable list of search criteria.
   
Smart Categorization The process of automatically assigning a document to appropriate categories (classifications, taxonomy nodes) based on metadata and Content Intelligence Services
   
Smart Tagging The process of automatically assigning attributes (properties) to Content Intelligence Services resources based on metadata (document properties, Docbase properties) and Content Intelligence Services conceptual models..
   
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Supports messaging as an e-mail message body and/or attachments to a list of recipients.
   
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol. Supports messaging as Web services in a specially encoded format so that they can be read by an external application.
   
Staging A lifecycle state in which content file resides between the development stage and the production stage.
   
Storage In Records Manager, this is the space meant for non-active records. This can be digital, optical, or cubic feet space.
   
Subtype A category of objects in the type hierarchy with its own characteristic properties. Subtypes are children of the supertypes and inherit all properties of the supertype. For example, dm_document is a subtype of dm_sysobject.
   
Supertype A category of objects in the type hierarchy with its own characteristic properties. A supertype is the parent type of its subtypes.
   
Superuser The highest user privilege level in the Documentum system. A superuser can read any object and change the permissions set for a user of any object.
   
Symbolic label A user-defined label that provides additional meaning to a numbered label
   
Synchronize A Web Publisher feature that allows you to manually update the files on the Web server.
   
System administrator The second highest user privilege level in Documentum security.
   
Task A run-time representation of an activity in a workflow
   
Task Manager A feature that enables you to perform a task that has been assigned to you by a workflow.
   
Thumbnail file A file that is a low resolution visual representation of another file. Thumbnials make it easier for authors to view a set of files simultaneously.
   
Transition rule A set of conditions that must be met for an activity before subsequent activities commence in a workflow.
   
Trusted Content Services This product provides the capability to protect content in the Documentum repository at all times using features such as repository encryption, encrypted communication, enhanced authentication, single sign-on (SSO), certificate support, and digital signatures.
   
Type A template for an object. An object type is defined by its properties and methods. An object is an instance of a type.
   
Unfreeze To unlock an assembly so that the structure of the assembly can be modified and the component documents edited.
   
Unlink To break a connection to a document so that the document no longer appears in given location. This definition does not apply to workflow objects.
   
URL Universal Resource Locator. A URL identifies the address of a resource supported by a specific Internet protocol. For example HTTP supports resources such as HTML files and JPEG images,
   
Validate A Web Publisher feature that checks to see if an XML document is well formed.
   
Verity query A query constructed using the Verity query language, which enables you to perform complex full-text searches of the Docbase.
   
Version labels Words (symbolic labels) and numbers (implicit labels) assigned to a document to indicate a particular version's place in a sequence of a document versions.
   
Viewer The middle window of the workflow template designer.
   
Virtual Document A document composed of other document.
   
WCM Web Content Management. WCM is a Documentum solution that provides Internet-scale content management including components specifically required for creating, managing personalizing, and delivering content to corporate Web sites.
   
WDK Web Development Kit. WDK is a developer's toolkit for creating custom Web applications that leverage the Documentum Content Server and repository. Built on an extensible J2EE framework, a WDK provides a familiar development environment that allows developers to easily create or customize reusable components that encapsulate standardized functions or incorporate functionality provided by other Documentum components.
   
Web Cabinet Previously known as Delivery Cabinet, this is a Web Publisher cabinet in the Docbase that contains all the files that belong to a particular Web site
   
Web developer The Web Publisher user group responsible for creating and managing Web page templates (page types) Manages the cabinets, folders, and files comprising the Web site.
   
Web farm Also known as Production Servers. The servers in a farm contain replicas of a file system and are accessed by Web applications.
   
Web page A Web page is a document formatted in HTML and viewable on the browser. Because of the HTML formatting, Web pages can include links to other files, including documents, graphics, audio files, and video files.
   
Web Publisher An “out of the box” browser-based tool for creating and updating Web content in a highly efficient and scalable manner, engaging all users across the enterprise. The integration to standard authoring tools allow contributors to work in familiar desktop environments and empowers non-technical users to create Web content without requiring them to understand HTML or XML.
   
Web Publisher Editor The tool to enable Web Publisher users such as content authors of Web pages to enter content. Web Publisher Editor is a combination of the rules file and content templates created in Web Publisher.
   
Web Publisher Site Administrator Provides Web administrators with powerful site management functionality, enabling them to review versions fo one or more sites at any phase in the staging or production process. Administrators can manage multiple staging and deployment configurations and provide work-in-process and staging areas for development and contribution teams.
   
Web server The computer system that implements the HTML/HTTP aspects of the Web site. It responds to browser requests and serves pages and other Web objects.
   
WebDAV Web -based Distributed Authoring and Versioning . A set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers.
   
Webtop Provides an easy to use, easy-to-configure, Web-based interface built on WDK technology for accessing Documentum content management capabilities.
   
WIP Work In Progress. This is the initial state in a content file lifecycle. Anytime a content file is versioned or demoted, its lifecycle starts over at the WIP state.
   
WML Wireless Markup Language. WML can be considered as the HYML for wireless devices such as cell phones and other hand-held devices.
   
Workflow A business process that passes documents, information and tasks from one person to another person in flowed procedures that achieve a particular goal.
   
Workflow Manager A Documentum tool used to design workflow templates.
   
Workflow template A reusable network of activities and relationships between the activities, from which workflows are started.
   
XML eXtensible Markup Language. XML is the Web page language that unlike HTML allows the separation of content and presentation. XML allows the creation of custom tags to structure the content
   
XML Application A set of objects in Docbase. The objects describe the rules for mapping XML components to Docbase object, XML zones (elements), transformations, and custom code. An XML application is also sometimes called a configuration or a category
   
XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language. As XSL stylesheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary.
   
Zone A region of an SGML document that is marked to be searched.