About Room Ext CM stores

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

1) One can create room content from the room or directly upload/create from the CM folders. Which method is recommanded, or are there no differences (however, to provide inital content, I must use the second method?)

2) What do I do if I want to provide template documents for meeting room materials?

Thanks!

Charles Fung

[sascha_tubbesing · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) I don't understand

2) you can build your own room templates with an already provided template folder structure including template documents. This is done by using room extensions.

When creating a room based on your template the prepared folder structure will be copied to your new room folder structure.

See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/1c/8c8f408864cf62e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

and

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/f2/3c9041eedda009e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

But if you never created a room template it is quite tricky and strange for the first few times

Regards,

Sascha

p.s.: in SAP Education class EP300 we talk a lot about rooms and also how to create folders by using the CM Room Extension

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply.

Just another quick question.

Let say I have an annoucement page in the template. I want two pages, one that can be edited by users with the room adminstrator role and another one that can only be read by users in regular room member role.

So, from SAP documentation, I learnt that I need to create two different pages each with a different iView. One iView with say... the command group for 'new' disabled, and the other with the command group intact.

After I've created these two pages, how do I 'link' the two iViews in these pages together? (ie. such that if the user in the room administrator role were to edit the annoucement using his iView, it will be reflected in the other 'read-only' iView?)

From my understanding, I need to adjust the properties for the two iViews such that they are mapped to the same extension (by mapping output parameters of extension to path and startUri of the iViews?) such that they will share the same workspace... is that correct? If two iViews share the same workspace (via extension), does that mean they will be 'connected' to the same content?

Thanks,

Charles

[sascha_tubbesing · Accepted solution]

Hi,

yes, you understood it right.

Both iViews point to the same KM folder. It is the same concept used for the delivered News scenario.

If a user sees the "New" command is controlled either by different LayoutSets for the different iViews or by setting KM permissions (Read only for readers, Full Control for Authors).

Regards,

Sascha

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks, things are much clearer now...

Just wondering about the cm_stores directories that is accessed via KM content. Is it possible to access the KM root directly from the server file system? If so, where is it located?

Thanks again,

Charles

[sascha_tubbesing · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

if you are in Content Administration -> KM Content there are many entries directly below the /root folder. All these entries are different <i>Repositories</i>.

You can find out about the persistence of those repositories in the Configuration or even in the Monitoring:

A) System Administration -> System Configuration -> Knowledge Management -> Content Management -> Repository Manager

B) System Administration -> Monitoring -> Component Monitor -> Repository Manager (click on the properties link of one entry to find out details)

The /room_extensions repository wherein the folder cm_stores resides is a CM repository with persistence DB. This means all data is stored in the system database.

There is also the possibility to create own rep. man. with persistence in the file system if youl like it. This could then also be used for rooms.

Regards,

Sascha