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Pawan Kumar
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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Versioning


As mentioned earlier, importing or creating a new object creates the version 1.0 for that object. This object becomes the root of the version tree that will be created by checking out and checking in this object and the versions derived from this object. Each version is a separate object with its own content and metadata. The versions are as shown:

The Content Server applies an implicit version label to each object in the repository and the label is of the form Major.minor. Additional symbolic version labels can be added to an object's metadata, which are descriptive and more appropriate for the end user.

If the checkin operation increments the minor version, the major portion is left unchanged. For example, the version label changes from 2.3 to 2.4 when the object is checked in as minor version. If the checkin operation increments the major version, the minor portion is reset to 0. For example, the version label changes from 2.3 to 3.0. In general, the version labels of...

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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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