4.7 How do you Create Multiple Renditions of the Content?

Content Rendition Services (CRS), formerly known as AutoRender Pro, is a Documentum tool that generates renditions or alternative formats of the original document in a Docbase.

4.7.1 Content Rendition Services

CRS deals with requests from client applications (say Web Publisher) for rendition (for example PDF, Text, HTML) of original documents. CRS, however, does not produce renditions for documents that are in the checked-out state in the Docbase.

CRS should be run on a separate dedicated networked work station and should be the only software executed on the particular work station.

Figure 4.4 indicates some source formats in Documentum Docbase and whether their PDF and HTML renditions are possible via CRS.

Source Formats

HTML rendition possible?

PDF rendition possible?

Microsoft Word

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Excel

Yes

Yes

Microsoft PowerPoint

Yes

Yes

WordPerfect

No

Yes

Lotus WordPro

No

Yes

PostScript

No

Yes

PDF

No

Yes

Figure 4.5 shows how the content rendition services serve rendition requests from Docbases.

4.7.1 Content Rendition Services

Figure 4.5: Generating renditions via CRS

The process of generating renditions via CRS is as follows:

  1. The client sends a rendition request to the Content Server.
  2. The Content Server stores the rendition request from the client in a dm_queue.
  3. CRS polls the dm_queue at pre-configured intervals to find out if there are any pending rendition requests to be served.
  4. CRS creates renditions as per the rendition requests in dm_queue, and sends them across to Content Server, which saves the renditions in the Docbase.

We can configure the frequency with which CRS polls the Docbases for rendition requests. Also, note that one CRS workstation can serve the rendition requests for a maximum of eight Docbases.

Tip

Documentum 5.3 Update

Content Rendition Services has been split into two products: Document Transformation Services (DTS) and Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS).

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