I got task to install and configure My Documentum for Outlook . .The most confusing part is to dig through all the documentation which is scattered all over place for different components in this installation.

MyD-Outlook_6_7 /Sp1/Sp2 supports all Content Server 6.5 version and later .

These are the steps i followed and it all worked out .

1- First thing first , make  an excel sheet and note down your current environment  specification for content server , web server . My environment settings are 6.5 SP3 , Tomcat 5.5.35

 

2- Download the matched version for My Documentum for Outlook , you have to download dar(MyD-Outlook_6_7.dar) file and My-Documentum-for-Microsoft-Outlook-6.7SP1.exe .

3- Download WAR/EAR file as per your applications server (WAR for Tomcat and EAR for IBM WAS)

4-  Install the DAR file using composer dar installer to all the repositories which you want to expose for MYD(My Documentum )- straight forward , no issues, it should be installed to global as well as other repositories you want to use in My Documentum.

5- Check out the following file dco_custom_settings.xml from given path /System/Applications/DCO and add all the repositories you want to enable for MYD. Empty login mode means normal mode , where user need to input user id and password to connect with repository.Repository name is case sensitive

<Repository name="TEST" LoginMode=""/>

6- Unzip the War file and add the dfc.properties file to following location My-Documentum-for-Microsoft-Outlook-WebService-6.7\WEB-INF\classes

7- Make war file again

8- Add the following tag to server.xml file in the Tomcat root folder/conf (example-C:\Tomcat\conf) and add the following tag. Here the tag provided in admin guide does'nt work with Tomcat so just make sure that you use this tag between <host>  </host>

<Context path="" docBase="My-Documentum-for-Microsoft-Outlook-WebService-6.7"
antiJARLocking="true" reloadable="true" />

9 Make sure you have enough memory for Tomcat  .

-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=70

 

10 – Deploy the WAR file on tomcat which you created in step 7 and start the tomcat server .

11- Go to your DA installation and uncomment the following xml tags from it and restart the DA applications. This enables the administration node in DA for outlook profiles management.

Path for this file DA Installation folder\webtop\config\administration_component.xml

<node componentid=’dcoadmin’>
<icon>dcoadmin.gifdcoadmin.gif</icon>
<handlerclass>com.documentum.webtop.webcomponent.administration.
ConfigurationNavigationNodeConfigurationNavigationNode</handlerclass>
<label><nlsid>MSG_DCOADMIN</nlsid></label>
<node>—>

 

 

12- Install the My-Documentum-for-Microsoft-Outlook-6.7SP1.exe on your system ,its straight forward next –next.

13- Configure the My Documentum using Outlook and you will be able to see one extra Menu in Outlook and click on it , configure the repositories.  Two things to remember here.

URL of your deployed application

http://serverurl:portno/

You might get error saying, no repositories available, that means, your setting which you changed in DA step 5 are not working, restart DA , content server, try again. Once it is up and running, you can configure the profiles using DA outlook node as per your business requirement

 

Happy installing.

 

Please let me know if you face any problem by a comment .

I was looking for customizing the web application which i need to download from SVN and customise it using eclipse ,straight forward way is to copy the app to TOMCAT_DIR\webapps and than open it using the eclipse and set the build path out to the classes folder of webapp but that will be outside my SVN folder/Eclipse work space which is separate space for source code and it is backed up on daily basis to keep the source code safe.

Following are the steps to configure tomcat for webapp deployment to different location than TOMCAT_DIR\webapps location.

1- Create an xml with the webapp name in TOMCAT_DIR\conf\catalina\webappname.xml

XML file looks like this

For Windows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context docBase="C:\MyPrivateSVN\EclipseWorkSpace\webappname">
</Context>

 

For Linux

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context docBase="/export/home/MyPrivateSVN/EclipseWorkSpace/webappname">
</Context>

Note- This directory should have execute permission for user whish is being used to run TOMCAT .

Happy coding.

Following are the steps to configure Tomcat with the Eclipse for WDK customisation and development.

1- Install the Tomcat if you have not installed it- Download URL -http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

2-Install the Eclipse Download URL -http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

3- Go to Windows –>Preferences in Eclipse –Click on Server Node –>Click on RunTime Environments

4- Click on Add button on right side on above dialog box and choose your tomcat version, in my case it is 5.5 and click next

5-  Browse to the Tomcat installation folder .

 

6- Click Finish- Than –OK

7- Go to Windows menu->Open perspective –click on Web as shown in below screen shot

8-Now you will see the Server tab along with console –as shown in the screen shot

9-Right click on the tab and click on New –Add Server  and specify your server and click finish.

 

10-Now change server location and deploy path-Deploy path is the path of webapps folder of Tomcat where you all webapps are deployed.

11- You are ready to use Tomcat in Eclipse to do any WDK based app customization.

 

Happy Coding.