Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Table of Contents
I. OVERVIEW.....................................................................................................................3
II. LOGGING IN.................................................................................................................3
III. EXPLORER MODE......................................................................................................4
IV. QSEARCH..................................................................................................................10
IV. DELILAH FOR DOCUMENTUM ADMINISTRATORS..............................................12
IV.I User and Group administration help................................................................................................ 12
IV.II API Tester.......................................................................................................................................... 14
IV.III Batch Import files............................................................................................................................ 15
IV.IV Update from Spreadsheet............................................................................................................... 18
I. Overview
Delilah
II. Logging in
When you launch Delilah.exe, a login screen is presented:
After entering a text in the filter, the grid will show only the records meeting
the filter:
Explorer options:
Using the Document Type drop down, you can select any of your visible
document types. When changing to a different type, the right pane will only
show documents of that type and its subtypes.
Using Show Versions you can quickly switch between Current version,
Latest version and all versions.
Setup brings you to the column chooser:
Double clicking in the available fields will add the field to the list of selected
fields.
Using drag&drop you can re-order the selected fields. When pressing OK, the
preferences are saved to the Delilah.ini file. It will update the right pane with
the configured columns.
Clicking on the Excel button, will launch MS Excel and send the results into
the spreadsheet.
When making selections in the right pane, you can press CTRL + mouse click
to select multiple records.
In the right pane, you can right click to get a context menu:
7. Export
You can export selected documents. It will prompt for a destination
directory first.
8. Add to Clipboard
You can add selected documents to the clipboard. In the current
version, the clipboard can be used to paste links into another folder (by
right clicking in the left pane/tree view on the target folder and
selecting Paste links).
9. Dump Attributes
10.
Delete Link
Using delete link, you can unlink selected documents. Delilah will only
unlink if the selected document(s) have at least 1 remaining link.
11.
Dump attributes
Just shows you all document attributes in a text file.
12.
Show Versions
Simply shows all versions of the document. You can right click and add
them to the clipboard of course.
13.
Show Versions and Renditions
Shows versions in combination with renditions (my sample docbase
14.
Show Locations
You can see at which locations a document exist:
Using Right click / Delete link you can immediately remove any
unwanted folder links.
15.
Select ALL records
Because Delilah does not yet have a nice graphic button or a CTRL-A
event handler, we put this option in the right click menu. You can
simply select all records in the right pane:
IV. QSearch
You can open the Quick Search from the main menu bar. This will show the
following screen:
The Quick Search feature allows users to easily find information and modify
search criteria until the search has been refined to the required level. In the
results grid, all standard functionality such as Export and Batch print is
available. With the Setup button, the fields to display in the search results
can be adjusted. If you have a search on for example dm_document, the
setup uses the field setup from the Explorer windows for dm_document.
The Quick Search feature can be tailored by modifying the
Delilah_qsearch.ini file. When you first use QSearch, this INI file will be
created automatically in the directory where Delilah.exe resides. The default
INI file looks like:
[QuickSearch1]
Title=Search DM_Documents
Type=dm_document
Search=object_name,title,keywords
Order=object_name
To[QuickSearch2]
be continued
Title=Search Sysobjects
Type=dm_sysobject
Search=object_name,title,keywords,acl_name
Order=object_name
When you right click on a user, you have the ability to show the group
memberships of this user:
In both the user and the group screens you have the option to view the
related ACLs from the right click menu:
Comparing Delilahs API tester to Workspace, you will find the following
benefits:
Shows the API syntax, as soon as you type a valid API command (like
entering get shows the get syntax);
The DATA field is only enabled when you have entered an API call that
requires it
You find a list of all API calls, known in Documentum 5.2.5, in the API Index
Coming soon:
Clicking on an API entry in the grids should copy the API call to the
command entry part of the screen
The CommandHistory tab should show only the commands you entered
and allow you to save the commands to a .api text file for repeatable use
Before being able to use this option, you will have to agree first that taking
any risk using this option is your own responsibility. We strongly recommend
to practice any import you want to do first in a controlled DEV or Test
environment.
You can confirm your agreement in the Edit / Preferences menu option:
After typing AGREED in the text box at the bottom of the Import tab, the text
background will turn green and the menu option Import / Update from File
will become fully functional.
When you open the menu Import / Update from File, you will find the
following screen:
Select your Import file location using the button showing with the
after the text input field.
Determine if you want to update Major versions like 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0 or if
you want to update minor versions like 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 etc.
Determine the VERSION LABEL that you need to set on the imported
version (default is DRAFT)
E.g.:
SELECT * FROM dm_document (ALL) WHERE log_entry = updated from
file
The above query shows any documents imported with the log_entry
set to updated from file
When you click Run Preview, you will go to the Preview tab if any of the files
in your identified directory can be used to update existing documents.
Only if an object name is unique files can be imported.
Example query:
-------------SELECT r_object_id,object_name
FROM dm_sysobject
WHERE ANY i_folder_id = '0c00072c80000117'
ORDER BY object_name
ENABLE (UNCOMMITTED_READ);
2. Send results from your Query to Excel and save the Excel file
3. Fix the data in your excel file (with the exception of the r_object_id
column)
Some Excel tips:
- If you want to convert field values to uppercase, you can use the UPPER
function of Excel
- If you want to strip the file extension from Object_name fields (like .doc),
you can use the MID function, e.g.
=MID(B1, 1, LEN(B1)-4)
The above example strips of the last 4 characters from a cell
Using Copy and then Paste Values you can overwrite the original cells with
just the values
That's all
Delilah uses the MIDAS.DLL to support the result grids and provide database
like sort and find features.
It is possible that you find the above message on your computer. Maybe you
have ever had another midas based application or you have moved the
Delilah application to a different folder. In that case you may need to reregister the midas.dll.
This can be accomplished using the following steps: (assuming that you have
a directory called c:\delilah that contains the Delilah.exe and midas.dll files,
ofcourse you can use any other directory)
Press Start / click Run / enter CMD to open the command prompt.
In the command window enter the following:
regsvr32.exe "c:\delilah\midas.dll"
This should give a message that registration succeeded.
Try to start Delilah again and navigate to a folder. The folder contents should
display properly now.