Editing a document subclass

Editing classes in a production environment

It is not recommended to alter classes used in production environments. In such a case a change to a document class could affect, potentially, thousands of documents that use that class, and each of those documents would need to be re-examined following the change.

Adding properties to a document class

Adding a property adds a column to the database table associated with the document class. The documents already assigned to that class remain as rows in that table, but there is no value in the new column. The Content Platform Engine property sheets display the new property for the old versions of the document. Thereafter, you can use Content Platform Engine search and bulk operations to find and populate those empty columns. Documents that are checked in under that class after the new property is added have values for the new column in the database table, provided a value was assigned either by the system or by the user.

Removing properties from a class