do you know anything about a product called Documentum?

Yes, yes I do. What do you need to know?

Um, basics? Is it a good app, is it difficult to pick up? Am I talking out of my ass if I say in a job interview, "Oh, I'm very confident that I can learn the application"?

Is it anything like ClearCase?

In what role will you be using it? Is it in place, and you'd need to use content in it, check stuff in and out, perhaps publish to the web, or will you be in any sort of design role?

I'm no ClearCase expert, but my reflexive answer is no. It'll be more like Sharepoint, or Livelink, or FileNet if you've used any of those.

In what role will you be using it?

Tech Writer. The job description says:

Acting as a Coordinator for Documentum eRoom; managing memberships, changing settings, and controlling access to eRoom items; generating eRoom usage reports; importing and exporting eRoom databases; adding, modifying, and deleting eRoom files and folders; providing eRoom user training and support.

Knowledge of Documentum eRoom software is a plus, preferably in using eRoom in a Coordinator role.

Is it in place, and you'd need to use content in it, check stuff in and out, perhaps publish to the web, or will you be in any sort of design role?

I would assume that the basic structure is in place, and they're looking for someone who can maintain it.

I'm no ClearCase expert, but my reflexive answer is no. It'll be more like Sharepoint, or Livelink, or FileNet if you've used any of those.

No, alas. Should I be worried prepared to talk fast?

eRoom's not that bad, actually. The core Documentum software is pretty much endless in its complexity, but eRoom is an add on (it's collaborative software). I've done some eRoom moderation myself, without training or manuals, and it wasn't bad.

Here's the product page, and you can register to use sample eRooms too.

Okay, thanks.

I've used Documentum! We were all very bitter having to learn how, but I liked it, in the end. Then I started at a new company, and they decided they didn't want to spend the money, and use some kinda homegrown crappy thing which is even MORE irritating, and which I...still havent' learned.

Any Javascript programmers out there?

I need some event handler to detect when a user changes a combo box (aka pulldown menu). Ah, but what about the onchange event? Well, we've discovered that sometimes that event won't fire. If, for example, a user pulls down the dropdown menu and types 'p', resulting in 'Paul' being selected, and then clicks on 'Paul', the onchage event won't happen. (It will happen if the user clicks on something other than 'Paul' i.e. what's selected.)

There is no onclick event for a pulldown menu. There is onmousedown and onmouseup, but then those events fire, the code sees what the value of the pulldown menu was before the user clicks, and I need to know what's selected after the user clicks on the menu. Or else I need to know when the user clicks on a value--the onmouseup event also fires when the user first pulls down the menu with the mouse, and I need to differentiate that event from the event when the user actually selects a value.

I have the feeling that what I want to do is impossible. I also have the feeling that the above is not too clear.

tommyrot -

You might try onBlur or onFocus in conjunction with onChange. onKeyPress might also be of use.

Konica digital SLR -- competitor for the Nikon D50 and Canon 350D.

Bring on the price wars!