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Pawan Kumar
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Pawan Kumar

Pawan Kumar is a Technical Architect with current expertise in Enterprise Content Management with EMC Documentum. He has an MS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India). Pawan has experience developing products as well as delivering business solutions on the Documentum platform and has created two products for this platform. He is intimately familiar with effective processes and tools for achieving business objectives through Documentum-based technology solutions. He has led and executed requirements and design workshops, architecture design, scoping, estimation, project planning, resource planning, technical design, software development, software testing, solution roll-out, and ongoing support for the deployed solutions. Pawan has been architecting, designing, and developing enterprise applications for ten years. He has developed software systems for financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, logistics, energy services, and retail industries. His expertise spans solution architecture, document management, system integration, web content management, business process management, imaging and input management, and custom application development. Currently, Pawan provides consulting and training services through doQuent (http://doquent.com), which was founded with the vision of enabling client success in content-related business initiatives. He also believes in giving back to the community. He founded the free online Documentum community dm_cram (http://dmcram.org), which is a test preparation resource for Documentum exams. He is also an active contributor to the Documentum-users Yahoo! User group, where Documentum community members seek help for their technical challenges. He can be reached at pk@doquent.com. Contact Pawan Kumar
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Managing DocApps


In a typical development cycle, a DocApp is created in a development repository. When the customizations are ready to be tested, the DocApp is archived (also said to be serialized) onto the file-system. Then the DocApp archive is used to install the DocApp in a test environment.

This process is repeated until the customization is considered ready for prime time. At this point, this DocApp archive can be installed in a production repository. If the customization is a part of a product, the DocApp archive is included in the product distribution.

Creating and Modifying DocApps

DocApps are created and managed via Documentum Application Builder (DAB). A Superuser privilege is required for creating a DocApp. The following screenshot shows the main screen of DAB with an open DocApp. The left pane organizes the contents of the DocApp. The status bar at the bottom shows information about the state of the connection to the repository.

The primary purpose of a DocApp is to package objects...

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Pawan Kumar

Pawan Kumar is a Technical Architect with current expertise in Enterprise Content Management with EMC Documentum. He has an MS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India). Pawan has experience developing products as well as delivering business solutions on the Documentum platform and has created two products for this platform. He is intimately familiar with effective processes and tools for achieving business objectives through Documentum-based technology solutions. He has led and executed requirements and design workshops, architecture design, scoping, estimation, project planning, resource planning, technical design, software development, software testing, solution roll-out, and ongoing support for the deployed solutions. Pawan has been architecting, designing, and developing enterprise applications for ten years. He has developed software systems for financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, logistics, energy services, and retail industries. His expertise spans solution architecture, document management, system integration, web content management, business process management, imaging and input management, and custom application development. Currently, Pawan provides consulting and training services through doQuent (http://doquent.com), which was founded with the vision of enabling client success in content-related business initiatives. He also believes in giving back to the community. He founded the free online Documentum community dm_cram (http://dmcram.org), which is a test preparation resource for Documentum exams. He is also an active contributor to the Documentum-users Yahoo! User group, where Documentum community members seek help for their technical challenges. He can be reached at pk@doquent.com. Contact Pawan Kumar
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