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Documentum is highly customizable platform, with a dozen of mouse click’s you may do many things which are often requested by customers. I will describe possible simplest but very often things you can do with the Documentum Application Builder (yep, I remember the times when it was named Developer Studio ) .

Object Type / Object Attribute labels

After you created an object type, which is indispensable for you business and added bunch of very useful attributes, you may want to give user-friendly labels to not shock the end user with something like abc_cat_invoice.

This is really simple, just double click on desired type or attribute and put there any label you want.

But remember you should modify labels for all locales supported by your application, so French speaking users will see labels in French and English speaking in English.

Also there is one more useful TIP. In the DAB view by default not show attributes of the base type, but your customers maybe don’t know what is “Title” or “Name” mean for the Invoice document. To change labels for this attributes select “List all attributes” from the View menu and change label for object_name or subject. Note: Do not change labels for the pure Documentum types, do that only under your type scope.

And not forget to check in your DocApp and restart Application Server.
So as you probably will got the following result

Title picture from here