Monthly Archives: July 2008

UCF_E_SPECIFY_APPLICATION for PDF files

This is a very often encountered error on the client’s machine. I have seen many blame the JRE on the machine or UCF installation itself. Some have suggested that the user update his webtop preferences or modify windows registry. This issue however is related to the acrobat installation on the client machine.

Hide attributes on new document creation and show them on the properties page

There was a question on the support forum today where a user wanted to hide certain attributes on the new document creation page but show it on the document properties page. This cannot be achieved by configuration in DAB as the definition would make it universal. The only way to do this is to customize [...]

Top 25 contributors to EMC’s support forum

I am one of the top 25 contributors in the EMC support forums. That’s a nice honor to have and I am glad that I have been able to help people find solutions to their problems. Having dealt with EMC’s official support, I know how important the forum is. I have added two pages with [...]

com.documentum.services.* JavaDocs

I have seen many forum posts on missing JavaDocs for the com.documentum.services.* package. This JavaDoc can be found at C:\Program Files\Documentum\help\bpm\api

DQL to find objects created in the last x minutes

I saw an interesting post in the documentum support forums today. This person wanted to construct a DQL to find the list of documents that were created in the last 15 minutes. However when you do a subtraction from a DATE attrinbute, content server assumes that the integer refers to a say. Thus DATE(NOW) – [...]