FrameMaker 8, webdav, and cms

My company needs to run FrameMaker 8 via a Webdav service. Is a CMS required? If so, is there an open source CMS that works well with Frame?

Hi Laurence,
If you can produce PDFs from the AdoebPDF via ID and AI by printing, then I'd suspect that the driver is probably ok. (Note: from ID and AI, it is better to SaveAs PDF, since these have their own internal PDF generation capabilities.)
Also, with FM8, if you're making interactive PDFs (i.e. not for press), then it is ok to do the SaveAsPDF route, since FM has some post-processing modules that kick in to clean-up the .tps file prior to handing it over to Distiller. So, the process is no longer is identical to printing to file and distilling.
On the FM side, make sure that the tagged PDF setting is turned off in your PDF setup and have the setting for generating named destinations for all paragraphs enabled.
You also might want to download Sundorne's SetPrint ( http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm ) utility to ensure that you always have the same printer instance (AdobePDF) enabled when you start FM.
Have you also applied the MS hotfix for the PDF font issues? Details are available here: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html
Last desperation move would be to create a new custom PDF printer instance using the Distller PPD and a copy of the AdobePS installer.

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Has anyone had success using SharePoint and FrameMaker 10 together using CMS?

Has anyone had success using SharePoint and FrameMaker 10 together using CMS?

Thanks for reminding to at least update the results thus far.
Update 4:
I did get quite a bit of support initially although slowly over a period of a month or so. After Adobe FM support and my SharePoint systems engineer reviewed how FM10 was setup on my computer (which I am the admin for our department’s SP site) and how it interfaces with our SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition, there was two conclusions:
Basically Adobe FM Support said that FM10 did not support claims-based authentication and they can no longer help me. They said it will work with FM11 when it comes out.
My SP Systems Engineer, said that FM10 is connecting to SP 2010 just fine but that the FM10 has a software glitch that causes FM10 lose control when executing checkout procedure within FM10. I can checkout and edit that same file in SP with no problems.
About a month later, I upgraded to FM11 and ran into the same problem. I attempted to get Adobe FM Support to help and they said they will look into and get back to me. That was in July and I have not heard anything more from them, and to be honest, my schedule has been extremely busy the last 5 months that I have not had time to pursue it any further.
Needless to say, I was very disappointed with the SP interface and, overall, the lackluster support I received from Adobe. Having a working SP interface was one of the criteria for purchasing TCS3.5 (and subsequent upgrade) in the first place.
One thing of note, we migrated from SP 2007 to SP 2010 in February 2011 and, at the time of Adobe support, I still had access to my SP 2007 site. FM10 and FM11 had to no issues working with SP2007. Unfortunately, SP 2007 is not an option for me anymore.
Also, another observation of FM10/11 not working with SP 2010, it seems that FM10/11 is automatically configured to work with SharePoint Drafts folder locally when connecting to the SharePoint library. This worked just fine with SP 2007 but SP 2010 does not use SharePoint Drafts folder locally the same way (the programming changed, don’t recall where I saw it, probably when searching this issue online) and I suspect that is one of the main issues why it does not work correctly.
So at this time, I have not found a working solution to this problem.

Authentication to XML DB via WebDAV and SSO

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Is there any way to be authentified by XML DB via WebDAV and SSO ?
If the access to our infrastructure of database servers is controled by SSO, once I'm authentified by OID (SSO), is it possible to pass that authentification to XML DB through standard port 8080 ?
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Hi,
pl go through this article
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f37d7e6a-0b01-0010-6690-8f4403b810cf
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Really I dont know what is DMS and CMS.I have searched in the forum but the information is not sufficient for me so please Can any one help me how can iI move files form DMS to CMS .
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I need to change port assignment on SIA and CMS.
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Br,
Sonni

stop the sia and go into it's properties from the CCM. I believe they can both be set there as well as in the CMC > Servers > CMS
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Configuring NWDI and CMS

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We did a Development portal installation (DEV) with NMDI and finished the DI post installation in the DEV system and configured my SLD in solution manager. Now we are going to install Portal Quality system (QAD) with NWDI. I need some documents after installing QAD system, like DI post installation and CMS configuration from quality to development system. I mean to say that, DEV as a Domain controller and QAD to include in that CMS. Before doing the DI post installation in QAD, do I need to change the Domain data of change management in Quality like CMS name, CMS url, CMS user, password, trans dir, Domain ID(if so,Can we change this ID to DEV), DTR url, CBS url. If so, do I need to give the datau2019s of Development system? or how to configure my quality system CMS to development system CMS. I found some links but there is no link that says about the configuration in development.
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Hi Narendra.
Thanks for reply.
While defining Software Component, I created a Build Time Dependency on these components and chosen SAP-JEE, SAP_BUILDT and SAP_JTECHS components.
While defining a Track under Domain in CMS (Landscape Configuration) i am not getting these dependent components under my SC.
So after adding SC to my track, i again Defined Dependencies on my SC. Now i can see these components under my SC but gives warning that "SC Dependencies are different but accepted by synchronization" and status of SC is yellow.
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Dear Experts,
I am trying to configure webdav on windows 7 and followed suggestions at here, here and other administration guides and still facing connection issues.
Can someone give me some tested pointers on how to configure webdav on win7.
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Srikanth.

Hi Srikanth ,
DIS also behaves the same way as WebDAV and it provides far more functionalities compared to native WebDAV .
If you have UCM 11g server then go to Administration - Component Manager and enable Desktop Integration Suite component , restart the server .
Then from UCM - My Content Server - My Downloads - select DIS client and install it .
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With this you can bulk upload as many contents as your requirement is just like the way is done with native .
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Srinath

Tomcat and CMS on Different Hosts

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We have to install Tomcat ( Server1) , CMS (Server2) and CMS DB (Server3) on three different hosts on a clustered Environment.
In our case, CMS Database is on Diff host. But, when i try to install Web Tier (Tomcat) on Server2, It is looking for CMS Host.
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My assumption is that if we have an existing Tomcat server already installed ( not the one comes with BOE package ),
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Eventhough I have already instralled BOE without Web Tier on Server2, It wouldn't allow me install Web Tier (Tomcat) on Server1 which needs to have CMS Host pointed while installation..
Without CMC in Server2 (I couldn't make sure CMS is running and working ) I tried with CMS Host name (Server2) for Web Tier (Tomcat) installation on Server1, But, It wouldn't start..
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Webdav and InCopy compatible?

My company has had continual problems with file sharing externally.
We tried Dropbox and Xythos. Dropbox lets you save multiple versions of the same problem which causes obvious problems when 5 people are working simultaneously. Xythos was giving our off-site mac user download problems.
It's now been proposed that we use WebDav as our file sharing place. Does anyone know if this will mesh with InDesign and InCopy? I'm worried that the fact that you have to download a file will prevent the InDesign user from working while the editors are in InCopy. Or if there are multiple InCopy files in one InDesign file, only one person will be able to work on any of those at once, right?
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hi BWer,
check sap help ?
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/9e/9f653ade969f4de10000000a114084/frameset.htm
You can access pre-calculated HTML pages in different ways:
· Using the BEx Download Scheduler
SAP recommends that you use the BEx Download Scheduler as an assistant when you download pre-calculated Web templates as HTML pages from the BW server. More information is available under Offline Scenario.
· Using a Web folder
As an alternative to the BEx Download Scheduler, you can also use the WebDAV Service of the document storage facility in the content management framework, to store pre-calculated HTML pages locally and easily. (Restricted) offline reporting options are available using this method. You can find further information about the WebDAV service under Implementing External Tools . See also: WebDAV (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning). You can find additional information about this procedure under Downloading Web Templates Using WebDAVs and Web Folders
WebDAV (BW-BEX)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/e9/440042fe7cd511b1250008c784efb1/content.htm

Requesting thoughts on Documentum, Sharepoint, and CMS with FrameMaker

My company is considering getting a CMS to be used with structured FrameMaker. We now have version 9 but willing to upgrade to version 10. I know that version 10 has the ability to connect to Documentum and Sharepoint.
I would like to know others' experiences with FrameMaker and a CMS...any CMS.
At the present, we work from shared drives, copying all imported illustrations (eps) by reference.
A few years ago I worked at a company that had Documentum. At that time, the writers had to check out all the illustrations and the Frame files to their desktops, copy the illustrations in by reference, make the PDF, and then check all back into Documentum. At the time, the rule was that one could not link to files within Documentum, only file on the desktop.
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Any thoughts about Documentum, Sharepoint, or any other CMS is appreciated. I am not looking for dissertations on the subject, just indications whether it can be done and if not, how it is done.
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And if anyone is using SDL's Trisoft, I'd love to hear about it, especially
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Is the FrameMaker CMS functionality exposed to ExtendScript? If so, is there any documentation or sample scripts available? Thanks in advance.
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Rick,
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http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/09/open-source-sample-connector-between-framemaker-11 -and-adobe-cq-now-available.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/crx.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/07/framemaker-day-cms-sample-connector-released.html
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=2002873&loc=en_ us <-- recording of Tom's webinar on the connector
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How To: Setup WebDAV and Apache2 for Private iCal Publishing

Notes:
This tutorial will not cover the installation of Apache2 or the required modules.
These paths apply to Ubuntu Server, but should work with many Linux distros.
There are other ways to configure your DAV directory. I have chosen to use a sub domain.
For simplicity, I am using Basic HTTP Auth. *THIS IS NOT SECURE!!!* Do not rely on Basic HTTP Auth for true security. For more details: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dav.html#page-header
The following commands assume that you will be using sudo or logged in as root.
1. Enable mod_dav and moddavfs: *a2enmod dav_fs*
2. Create a directory for your DAV: *mkdir /var/www/dav*
3. Create a sub domain site: *vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/dav*
4. Enter the following:
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /var/www/dav
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
ServerName dav.yourdomain.com
</VirtualHost>
DavLockDB /usr/local/apache2/var/DavLock
<Location />
Dav On
Order Deny,Allow
AuthType Basic
AuthName "DAV"
AuthUserFile /var/www/user.passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>
5. Create the user.passwd file:
*cd /var/www/*
*htpasswd -c user.passwd*
+Enter username and password when prompted+
6. Reload Apache's config: */etc/init.d/apache2 reload*
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Lion doesnt know webdav! No Versions... forget the webda(v).
How does look your config?
DNS is correct?
Check with:
hostinfo (IP)
hostinfo (dnsname)
nslookup (IP)
nslookup (dnsname)
Does the user/group exist? can you log in over an other protocoll? like afp?
More informations please...

Framemaker 7.2 and Windows XP SP3

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A security file in Win XP SP3 causes problems with OLE graphics imported into FM. The problem will only rear its head when you try to save the document and the following error box appears:
"An Internal error occurred while writing imported graphics in this document. The file has been saved, but has lost some image data. Please report this fault to Adobe Technical Support."
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1. Remove all OLE files and import them as referenced files, then save.
2. Roll back Windows XP to SP2. (This is what I had to do as I have a vast quantity of documents with OLE files.)
If anybody has further info please feel free to discuss.

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It's just OLE, not FM7.2, that is the problem with the SP3 fix. This
has been reported in the Forums numerous times. Using OLE with FM has
consistently been a "not recommended" feature and Adobe is aware of
the issue.
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by reference or rollback to SP2.

Webdav and xdb, xml-files are automatically deleted (or hidden)

Hi All.
In our project we have mounted webdav from a Linux box against an IBM database server running AIX and Oracle 11g.
The file system on the Linux box is mounted to the xdb-schema on the dbserver.
When placing xml-files into the database through the webdav-catalogue on the Linux-box the files are copied over, but almost immediatly removed (or hidden) from the target directory in the database.
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What I´d like to know is how to disable this check/trigger, and which trigger does this.
Can anybody tell me if my assumtion is correct, and if yes, how to disable this checking?
Our users in the project will also be given access to folders through this webdav mount, and they will use this as a storage space for other xml-files as well. Files we do not have xsd´s for. Another function for this webdav directory is to serve as a source directory for ODI, and ODI validates the files against the xsd when transferring data to the database, so we don´t need this extra validation in the database.
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Bob

Hi,
What's the database version? (select * from v$version)
When placing xml-files into the database through the webdav-catalogue on the Linux-box the files are copied over, but almost immediatly removed (or hidden) Does that mean you see them for a short period of time, and then they disappear, or you never see them at all?
Are you using XML DB events?
You can check if there's any resource configuration defined, and that may explain this behaviour :
select x.*
from xdb.xdb$resconfig rc
   , xmltable(
       xmlnamespaces(default 'http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb/XDBResConfig.xsd')
     , '/ResConfig/event-listeners/listener'
       passing rc.object_value
       columns description varchar2(300) path 'description'
             , schema      varchar2(30) path 'schema'
             , source      varchar2(30) path 'source'
             , events      varchar2(300) path '(#ora:xq_proc#){string-join(for $i in events/child::* return name($i), ", ")}'
             , condition   varchar2(300) path 'pre-condition/existsNode/XPath'
     ) x
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Register event handlers for users.                             SYS       DBMS_XS_PRINCIPAL_EVENTS_INT   Pre-Create, Post-Create, Pre-Update, Pre-Delete    /r:Resource[r:SchemaElement="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xs/principal.xsd#user"]
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Register event handlers for function roles.                    SYS       DBMS_XS_PRINCIPAL_EVENTS_INT   Pre-Create, Post-Create, Pre-Update, Pre-Delete    /r:Resource[r:SchemaElement="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xs/principal.xsd#functionRo
Register event handlers for Data Security.                     SYS       DBMS_XS_DATA_SECURITY_EVENTS   Post-Update, Post-Delete                           /r:Resource[r:SchemaElement="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xs/dataSecurity.xsd#DataSec
Register event handlers for Security Classes.                  SYS       DBMS_XS_SECCLASS_EVENTS        Pre-Update, Pre-Delete                             /r:Resource[r:SchemaElement="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xs/securityclass.xsd#securi
                                                               SYS       DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN         Pre-Delete
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Handling of Office Open XML spreadsheets                       OOX       OOX_SML_STORE                  Pre-Create, Pre-Delete                             /Resource[ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheet
9 rows selected
{code}
And if your target folder has any config file associated, for example :
{code}
SQL> select *
2 from table(dbms_resconfig.getResConfigPaths('/office/excel/docs'));
COLUMN_VALUE
/office/excel/conf/sml_rescfg.xml
{code}

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