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Usage of "categories" and "attributes"?

Last Post 05/14/2009 9:04 PM by Peter Donker. 3 Replies.

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Jens Lemmer

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05/11/2009 1:48 PM
Are there any examples or best practices on how to use "categories" and "attributes"? We are using DMX for our intranet. Right now, I am using categories to distinguish between forms, minutes of meeting, agenda, presentations etc. Or is there a better use of it? And what about attributes? Are there any examples/best practices on how to use DMX for an intranet?

Peter Donker

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05/11/2009 10:56 PM
Hi Jens, No there is not. The categories are primarily meant to provide a many to many relationship in your repository (folder-files are one-to-many). The attributes are normally used in cases where you'd also use them to do processing for instance. Attributes have the drawback of adding overhead as each one needs to be linked on every call. They also only show up in the details panel. Any other presence needs to be programmed in. Categories scale better and are already on your content tree. So it depends a bit on the application. From your post, I'd say categories. Hope this helps. Peter

Jens Lemmer

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05/12/2009 6:33 AM
Hi Peter, thank you for your answer. Right now we have the case that our people requested additional fields for each document: A date when this document has to be reviewed again and a field for the document owner (generally one person is responsible for a document and to keep it update). Should we do this with attributes? I just tried to add a new attribute "review_date", datatype date and required but it does not show up anywhere in the "Edit attributes" or "Create new document > Core Metadata" sections, although it appears in the custom attribute listing.

Peter Donker

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05/14/2009 9:04 PM
Hi Jens, Custom attributes sounds like the path for this. It is hard to say why they don't show up. If you specify 'File' under EntryTypes then it should show up for all files (i.e. not folders or hyperlinks) under the 'custom' tab of the edit wizard. Peter

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