Links can be used to associate items in the repository with different locations or repositories. You can also email links.
You can link cabinets, folders, or files to:
A location in the repository
When you link an item to a location in the repository, the item can be accessed from the new location in the same way it is accessed from its original location. You cannot link an item that is locked. If the item is locked, the lock owner must first unlock it.
Another repository
You can link an item from one repository to another. The link creates a shortcut to the selected item. You can perform most of the standard file, and folder operations on shortcuts. For example, you can export, copy, and check out shortcuts. You use the standard procedures to perform such operations. When you perform an operation, Documentum Administrator performs the operation on original item in the original repository. To navigate from the shortcut to the original item, select the shortcut, and then select File > Go to Target
A location on the local machine
To link an item to a location:
Select one or more items.
Select Edit > Add To Clipboard.
Tip: You can add items from multiple locations to your clipboard. All items on your clipboard are linked to the same location.
Open the location to which to link to display the content pane, then select Edit > Link Here.
To link an item to another repository:
Navigate to the item, and select it.
Select Edit > Add To Clipboard.
In the same Documentum Administrator window, open the repository to which to link.
Navigate to the location in the new repository.
Select Edit > Link Here.
Note:
Replication jobs automatically synchronize the shortcut with the original file. You can manually synchronize the shortcut without waiting for the automated synchronization to occur by refreshing.
Any operations that modify an item are implicitly performed on the source item, and the shortcut item is updated to reflect the change.
If your configuration supports translations, then when you create a translation of a shortcut, you create a new file in the repository. You do not create a shortcut.
You can perform lifecycle operations on shortcuts that already have lifecycles applied to them.
To link a repository item to your computer:
Select the item.
Select View > Properties > Info.
A shortcut icon appears next to the items name.
Drag-and-drop the shortcut icon to a folder on your computer.