As more and more of our clients are upgrading to Documentum 6/6.5, we’ve encountered many significant changes between development methods in 5.3 WDK and 6.5 WDK. The good news is they are changes for the better, allowing for more efficient and streamlined development of Webtop customizations. One of the big changes is the ability to modify a […]
Active Wizard to use OpenContent
TSG is currently in the process of creating a version of the Active Wizard that will work with our own OpenContent web services. Using OpenContent will allow Active Wizard to work with any Content Management System that OpenContent supports. This means that Active Wizard implementations will be supported on a number of repository types (ex: […]
TSG Gives Back!
For the past year, TSG employees have been helping pack sack lunches for residents of the Lincoln Park Community Shelter. LPCS is a social service agency that provides transitional housing, meals and other social services to men and women who are experiencing homelessness. This opportunity benefits not only the residents of LPCS but TSG as […]
A Consultant's View on Recruiting
College recruiting season is upon us. It is always invigorating to talk to students about to graduate. As I try to encourage these seniors to come work for our company, it reminds me of why I love working with technology and why I love the field of consulting. With both technology and consulting – no […]
Document Control – Common Best Practices
We had an open-forum discussion on Document Control at the most recent Midwest Documentum User Group meeting. The discussion focused on feedback from various members of the group as well our experience over the years. We received positive feedback that the open discussion format, with multiple people participating, was insightful and are planning on using a similar […]
SharePoint – Adding ECM Structure
While majority of the work we do is Documentum or Alfresco related, we recently had the opportunity to help a client re-structure their SharePoint implementation. They are a small company that adopted SharePoint several years ago, however, they were unhappy with how the system was being used (or in essence not being used). Each user […]
OpenMigrate: Making Complex Migrations Simple
TSG is in the final stages of a complex, cross-Atlantic migration utilizing OpenMigrate. This project requires moving approximately 40,000 documents from a Qumas DocCompliance system in the Midwest to an existing Qumas DocCompliance system in Europe.
FAST Administration and Search Tools
While helping a client troubleshoot some FAST full text indexing issues with their Documentum 5.3sp6 environment recently, I came across some tools that proved to be helpful during the troubleshooting process.
Working with Adobe Flex and iframes
As part of the upcoming Active Wizard 4.0 release, and as a result of a client’s requirement, we recently added a new input type: WYSIWYG. The WYSIWYG input type allows users to style and format text just like in a word processing application.