Frequently Asked Interview Questions

CE Questions

What is a Document ?

    Document is an object, that has content, descriptive information, and it can be contained in folders and can be Secured.

What is a Compound Document ?

    Compound Document is a collection of Document objects that are associated in a parent-child hierarchy with a link between parent and child. It has unlimited no. of child documents with unlimited no. of child levels.

What is the difference between getInstance( )  and fetchInstance( ) ?

     getInstance( ) method does not verify the existence of the requested object on the server; it simply returns a local reference without making a round-trip to the server. The local reference is not affiliated with an object of this class type until you perform a function on the object (for example, fetch a property value) that causes a round-trip to the Content Engine server.

    fetchInstance( )  method always makes a round-trip to the server. You can optionally include a filter to control which properties to return with the object. If you pass in null for the filter parameter, this method returns values for all non-object properties and returns placeholders for all object-valued properties. 

What is a DocumentLifeCycle ?

    DocumentLifeCycle is a set of user defined states through which a document moves from its creation to final disposition. The states are specified in  a policy that defines the Life Cycle.

Eg: Planned, Scheduled, In Progress and Completed.

What is a Custom Object ?

    It is a general purpose object represented by a Custom Object object that can be sub-classed, independently secured, and persisted to the Object Store.

What is an Entry Template ?

    An Entry Template is a custom wizard for adding content, with preferred steps that guides the user to add content. Each Entry template adds a particular type of object (for Eg: Document).

What is PropertyFileter ?

    PropertyFileters, limit the properties and property detail retrived from server, to improve the retrival performance.

PE Questions

What is  Workflow Definition and Workflow ?

    Workflow Definition is an electronic representation of the activities required to accomplish a business process.

    Workflow is a running unique instance of a Workflow Definition. It contains Steps, Properties, Routing information, and maintained in an executable form.

What is a Work Item ?

    A work item is a task that must be completed by a user. A work item is associated with a node on a workflow. It contains data and instructions needed for processing.

What is a Queue?

    It is database structure, used to maintain the work items, while they are await processing.