In this chapter we briefly discussed the importance of a good design before building an application. We went on to take up a sample case study for a dummy newspaper website, discussing how it could be managed by Documentum using templates.

We then touched upon the Web Publisher template, Rules file, and presentation file architecture.

A Web Publisher template file can be thought of as a simple XML file having pre-defined fields, which content authors can fill in to create contents.

The Rules file is again an XML file that controls the behavior of each of the template field XML elements.

Finally, a presentation file is nothing but an XSL stylesheet that controls the format (layout) of pages created from template files.

At the end of the chapter we discussed how to create a custom DocApp for storing and managing the Docbase objects required for our custom application.