The experimental preview of the D2 SmartView SDK is finally available to download. This comes packaged as a zip file containing the SDK, which is a combination of Maven, NPM and NodeJS (not the most attractive combination for Documentum old-timers :D)

So, once we get the zip file, we can do the following to install the SDK:

mkdir sviewsdk
cd sviewsdk/
mv ../d2/smartviewsdk.zip .
unzip smartviewsdk.zip

chmod u+x *.sh
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install maven
mvn -version

sudo apt install nodejs
node -v

sudo apt install npm
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node -v

sudo npm install -g npm@latest
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

./ws-init.sh

As the “supported” NPM versions are 12-14, we should manually install 14. You should now run “npm update” to make sure everything is, well, up to date. Then you can launch the documentation by running “npm run documentation”

d2sv-sdk@22.4.0 documentation
node ./utils/doc-server.js

Starting documentation server at http://0.0.0.0:7777

And if you open localhost:7777/sdk:

After reading through the documentation, we should try to run the “workspace assistant”. For this, I had to manually run the following command as the ws-init script didn’t work properly: “sudo npm run postinstall”. After this, you can run the start command “npm start”

d2sv-sdk@22.4.0 start
node ./utils/run-generator-cli.js interface

And you’ll see the “assistant”:

You can browse through the options to see what’s available. For this first test I opted for using the included examples and then compiling them:

After this, I copied the resulting jar file artifact (on the “target” folder, and not the “dist” folder, as the documentation wrongly states) to Smartview and… Smartview no longer starts 😀 So I guess I’ll have to keep investigating… good luck