You can link an item from one repository to another. This 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, Webtop performs the operation on original item in the original repository. For example, when you check out the shortcut, Webtop also checks out the original in the source repository.
Shortcuts are designated by a small, duplicate-icon overlay on the file icon. The overlay looks like a little copy of either the folder or file icon.
Shortcuts allows users of different repositories to share files over great distances, while making the shared files local to each office. A shortcut can have both global, and local properties. When you change a global property value, the value is changed in the source item, and in any other shortcuts. When you change a local property value, the value is changed only in the current shortcut.
To navigate from the shortcut to the original item, select the shortcut, and then select File > Go to Target.
To link an item to another repository:
Navigate to the item, and select it.
Select Edit > Add To Clipboard.
In the same Webtop window, open the repository to which to link.
Navigate to the location in the new repository.
Select Edit > Link Here.
The Documentum Server uses automated jobs to synchronize shortcuts, and originals.
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.