Localization Tool

Challenge

Localizing content within Documentum can be a tedious and time-consuming process.  Out of the Box, WebPublisher is designed to work with only one file at a time.  This is an issue if entire websites or even sections of a website needs to be localized into a new locale. Additionally, content can only be localized to one locale at a time.  In most cases, content for an entire section of a site is created and approved in a single base language.  Once that is done, for a truly globalized site, all the content needs to be localized into multiple approved locales. 

Solution

TSG has developed a WDK based Localization Tool which exists within the WebPublisher Interface.  Users are able to select entire web cabinets or folders for localization.  The tool will recursively localize all content within the specified structure.  Users are able to select their base locale to start from and any number of locales to create copies of the existing content. The Localization Tool greatly reduces the effort that a user needs to go through to create versions of the content

Benefits

• Quickly localize all content within a folder and its sub-folders.

• Localize content to one or more languages within a single pass.

• Display log of actions performed for the user to review.

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RSS Generation Tool

Challenge

Content created within WebPublisher needs to be syndicated to multiple applications.  This requires all the applications to have a connection to the Site Cache tables and file store. Each system would have to convert the results into the format it would require for display. An additional requirement may be to have the content you are producing to be available outside of your organization, such as RSS Readers; Yahoo! and Google homepages; etc.  Giving them access to your database is not an option. 

Solution

TSG's RSS Generation Tool creates a REST based Webservice layer on top of your Site Cache Repository.  Any number of applications can request content from this repository over HTTP without the use of SQL statements.  The data returned is structured in a configurable standards based format that can transformed using many existing applications.  TSG built the RSS Generation Tool to be high performance.  By using configurable caches within the tool, data is returned to the requesting application extremely fast.

Benefits

• Many applications - one content store.

• All communication for the repository to the application is over HTTP.

• The requesting applications are abstracted from the underlying database.

• Caching allows for fast return of results.

High Level Architecture

• Documentum Publishes content.

• The Web Application(s) request content collections.

  • Request are HTTP requests.
  • No database knowledge is needed by the applications

• The RSS Generation Tool returns results in the standard structur

  • Return from internal cache if it exists (no need to go to the database)
  • Query Site Cache repository if needed

Extending WebPublisher with Staging Site Navigation

Challenge

When the reviewers and the authors are ready to starting editing content, it is difficult for them to find the individual piece of content that they need to edit within the application. Although the user is looking at the content on the preview/staging server, they may not be able to correlate that to the folder structure within Documentum.  

In some architectures, content on the website maybe made up  of any number of smaller content pieces.  This makes it very difficult to find the one piece of content that you need to make changes to.

Solution

TSG created the Staging Site Navigation solution to help authors and reviewers find content within their preview instance of the application.  Built to use the DRL functionality of Documentum, users can link straight from within their pages into WebPublisher Template Edit screen without knowing where the content is stored.  Each content piece on given page has its own link to take the user into Documentum. This reduces the time to review the content and the need to train reviewers on all aspects of WebPublisher.

Benefits

• Familiar navigation to find content for editing.
• Reduce time to review content.
• Reduce training on translation from site view to WebPublisher access.