Clients who use the Active Wizard for forms and workflow systems often wonder if third party users or other users outside Documentum can participate in the form creation process. With our new Active Wizard Lite (AWLite) product, it is now possible for non-Documentum users can easily fill out dynamic Active Wizard forms! We’ve seen the […]
Documentum Upgrade Alternatives
I was talking to a client yesterday struggling with decisions on upgrading Documentum. Currently the client is on Documentum 5.3 SP5 and is paying EMC for additional support since 5.3 SP5 is no longer supported under standard support. This is not an uncommon situation with many Documentum clients for some of the following reasons: Over […]
Active Wizard Spotlight – Calculations
One of the features that was added to the Active Wizard in the 3.9 release is in-page calculations. This feature allows administrators to calculate a field’s value based on other fields on the page. Here’s an example: In the above screenshot, the user can answer the top three questions, but the bottom two are calculated […]
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: […]
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.
Active Wizard 4.0 Preview – OpenContent & Active Wizard Lite
Our next release of the Active Wizard will be 4.0, and it will mark the beginning of some big changes for the Active Wizard. Our overall architecture direction is to move to a web services model based on OpenContent. While this change is more of a back-end update that regular users won’t notice, it will […]
Active Wizard 3.9 Released!
The Active Wizard latest release is available on the TSG downloads page! This latest release contains functionality added to the product by a number of our clients. The 3.9 release adds the following new features: Form Email Module – The new email module allows an administrator to configure email rules for each form. When the […]
Documentum Consulting and Open Source
I had a good meeting last week with a potential new partner of TSG in regards to how to work together to offer Open Source solutions across our joint customer base. While we have had many firms download our Open Source software (Crown Partners, CSC/FCG, IBM, PWC, Cognizant and EMC themselves to name a few), most […]
Documentum Open Source Software
In talking with a new client last week, the client asked “Why do you do Open Source software for Documentum, a commercial software package?” As the only long-term Documentum partner to offer all of our software as Open Source, we get that question often. I thought I would use this entry to explain our strategy […]