Working with document objects

Viewing a document
You can view a document in an object store by using a client application, such as IBM® Content Navigator. You can use the administration console to view a document object without downloading any content.
Downloading a document
You can download a document in an object store by using a client application, such as IBM Content Navigator. You can use the administration console to download a document object.
Adding a document
You can add a document to an object store by using a client application, such as IBM Content Navigator. You can use the administration console to add a document object without uploading any content.
Checking out a document
You check out a document in one of the following modes: exclusive or collaborative. In collaborative mode, anyone with the appropriate permissions can check in the document or cancel the checkout.
Determining the reservation type
A document can be checked out, or reserved, exclusively or collaboratively.
Checking in or saving a document
Check in a document to add another version of the document to the object store. The new version is added as either a major version or as a minor version. You can add content elements to the document as part of the checkin.
Filing a document
You can file one or more documents in multiple folders. The item is not duplicated in each folder, but instead, each folder contains a reference to the same item. The document can be edited from any of the locations.
Unfiling a document
A document can be filed in one or more folders. Unfiling a document from a folder removes the reference to the document from that folder. The document itself is not deleted.
Promoting a document version
Promoting a minor version converts it into the released major version.
Demoting a document version
Demoting the major released version of a document converts it into the current in process minor version, and sets the most recent superseded major version, if one exists, as the released major version.
Freezing the custom properties of a version
Freezing the custom properties of a version prevents changes to its otherwise modifiable custom properties. The system-maintained properties of a frozen document version are updated by the system as necessary.
Deleting a document version
You can delete one or more versions of a document. If the deleted version is the reservation (that is, the checked-out version), deleting the reservation version is the same as canceling the check-out.
Deleting a document
You can delete a document along with all its versions and all references to it.
Managing document content elements
A document object contains zero or more content elements. Each element is either a file or a reference to a file.
Managing compound documents

Parent topic: Working with documents