A tool to export Documentum (custom) object model as a graph
Helpful tool
One of Documentum’s strengths is its strong object orientation and the possibility to define custom object types (the so-called doctypes) which inherit both attributes and behaviors from their ancestor type.
There are many cases when exporting a portion or the complete types’ hierarchy of a given repository in a readable format is really useful:
- inserting a description of a subset of a doctypes in a documentation
- quickly visualizing the hierarchy of doctypes while discussing design decisions
- …
Although it has not always been officially publicly published, the “Documentum Object Relational Diagram” has always been one of the most useful technical documentation of the platform. This diagram presents the different “system” object types of the platform and their relations.
Extract from the Documentum Object Relational Diagram for 6.0
But what if you want to easily visualize your custom doctypes (and ideally link those to the existing out-of-the-box/system doctypes)?…
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