Author: Alvaro de Andres

Composer/Repoint plugins/guides

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This is a list of plugins/guides I’ve developed over the years:

This Composer plugin provides a button that allows you to quickly change your dfc.properties configuration from a configurable list enabling the use different environments so you don’t have to use different composers or manually change dfc.properties.

This guide will help you integrate repoint into your composer (as a perspective), so you don’t need to have multiple eclipse’s instances opened at the same time.

While repoints allows you to run API scripts from the API commands windows, it doesn’t work with DQL scripts. This plugin modifies the DQL command window so it will recognize the script sintax (@absolute_path_to_script_file)

This plugin modifies the DQL command window in repoint so you can use the auto-complete feature with default/custom document types and attributes while you type the DQL query.

 

 

UCF troubleshooting

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Check the updated version of this post here: UCF troubleshooting v2

Don’t we all love troubleshooting UCF problems? Here’s a quick list of common solutions to usual problems:

UCF installation paths:

  • Windows XP: C:\Document and Settings\[user]\Documentum
  • Windows Vista/7/8: C:\Users\[user]\Documentum
  • Linux: ${home}/Documentum

Timeout/browser/jre problems:

  • Check the supported environment tables in webtop/da release notes. Most JRE versions will work even when aren’t supported, but you’d better check if the supported version works.
  • If not needed, disable ACS and BOCS.
  • If using a proxy, add host’s IP and hostname to the proxy exceptions
  • In case the UCF aplet cannot be installed, try disabling DEP protection
  • Delete the local UCF installation and try a clean installation
  • [Firefox] Check Java plugin is enabled. Mozilla automatically disables outdated JRE plugins.
  • [IE] Check Sun/Oracle JRE is the default JRE, disable ActiveX filtering, and check Java plugins are enabled in the Manage Addons window.
  • [IE/Firefox] If you are working with a 64 bit Operating System, check if you’re using a 32bit browser with 32bit JRE. 64 bit browser/JRE with UCF is probably a bad idea.
  • [IE] Check Java integration with browsers is enabled.
  • [Java control panel] Delete JRE caché
  • [Java control panel] Disable the next generation Java plug-in.
  • [Java control panel] Disable verification of mixed code security.
  • [UCF configuration] If UCF keeps throwing a timeout, disable the IPv6 compatibility by changing the following line in ucf.installs.config.xml (located in ${Documentum_UCF}/ucf/config)

true”/> tofalse”/>

Manual installation:

  • You can install the UCF applet in the client computer manually, just run the folowing bat script:
set DIRNAME=%~dp0%lib\
set URLDIR=%DIRNAME:\=/%
java -cp %DIRNAME%ucfinit.jar com.documentum.ucf.client.install.TestInstall "file:///%URLDIR%" "ucf.installer.config.xml"

This is the structure/files you need for this script to work (you can find these files in /wdk/contentXfer/):

UCFTestInstall.bat
\lib
\lib\ExJNIAPI.dll
\lib\ExJNIAPIGateway.jar
\lib\jacob.dll
\lib\jacob.jar
\lib\ucf-ca-office-auto.jar
\lib\ucf-client-installer.zip
\lib\ucf.installer.config.xml
\lib\ucfinit.jar
\lib\UCFWin32JNI.dl