Hidden Concepts of ATG Repository- Part 3

2. Last Modified Date and Version Properties Last Modified Date: Last Modified Date is used at item level to identify the items that are being changed from given timestamp.                 <item-descriptor ......... last-modified-property="lastModDate">                           <attribute name="updateLastModified" value="true"/>                     ...

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Hidden Concepts of ATG Repository- Part 2

2. Required , Unique and Default Properties Scenario 1: You have property of Item, that is must required for creating Item.From DataBase perspective, you have column which cannot be null and requires user entered value. Solution 1: Use the attribute required=true at property level.            <property name="mustNeeded" data-type="string" required="true" /> Dont's: If DataBase defines NOT NULL constraint to column, then required attribute must be set to "true". Vice-versa is not always...

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Hidden Concepts of ATG Repository- Part 1

ATG Repository is vast area in ATG box to explore. There are lot of hidden things, which gets unnoticed during the implementation. Though these points are covered in the ATG Repository, I will try to collect them and note down here. 1. Enumerated String: Till the ATG 9.x , Repository was supporting the Enumerated integer, where Integer code was stored in DataBase in place of string option values...

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ATG BCC Deployment "Preapre failed"

Prepare failed occurs during initial state of deployment. Prepare failed might be due to one of following reasons. 1. Live Data Source mismatch in Production. 2. Production RMI in non listening mode. This issues occurs only where deployment server is switchable. To solve the above problem, try following steps. 1. Move to Agents Tab and Click on "Switchable DataSources" 2. Make SwitchDataSource and ConfigFileSystem to Point to either...

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