Appendix: Understanding Content Management Tables

This appendix discusses the tables that support:

Note. The tables in this appendix identify all basic tables that are used in the Content Management system, as well as important cautionary notes. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, as it does not identify views or work records.

Click to jump to parent topicAll Content Management Features

The following tables are used by all features. Related language records are also available.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicFolder Tables

The following tables pertain to folders:

Table

Description

Notes

EPPCM_CATEGORY

Folders.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CATG_TYPE

Folder types.

Different folder types allow for different rules regarding how the components render and are used.

Valid folder types are:

  • B: Categorized Content.

  • C: Related information.

  • D: Discussion forum.

  • E: Collaborative workspace.

  • N: News publications.

  • R: Managed content.

  • S: Menu items.

  • T: Manage navigation.

  • W: Pagelet wizard.

  • A: Action items.

  • L: Calendar events.

EPPCM_CATG_CONT

Folder content relationship.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CATG_SITE

Folder type by site.

Overrides a select set of values by site for the feature.

EPPCM_CONT_SITE

Content type by site.

Overrides by site the available content types to add.

EPPCM_COMP_TYPE

Folder type components.

Associates the feature or component type to the menu, component, and page. It also sets the page display values for that feature or component type.

EPPCM_CONT_TYPE

Content type available by feature and component type.

Lists available content types that can be added to the given feature on the given component type.

EPPCM_DFLT_URL

Default URL used to locate file storage location.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CATG_MEM

Folder member assignment.

Related: PSOPRDEFN and PSROLEDEFN.

Implements row-level security for folder content.

EPPCM_CATG_VWR

Folder viewer assignment.

Viewer roles for published content within the folder.

EPPCM_CONT_VWR

Content viewer assignment.

Viewer roles for published content.

EPPCM_CATG_ATTR

Folder attributes.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_TPCATGADM

Top administrator assignments by feature.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_PRIVILEGE

Privilege set definition for the feature.

Determines actions available to the user. The defined privilege set is stored in the EPPCM_CATG_MEM table, which implements row-level security for folder content.

EO_PE_OPTIONS

Holds the next available category or content ID.

Warning! These IDs are system-assigned and consequently make moving Content Management-related categories and content from one database to another ill advised.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicContent Tables

The following tables pertain to content:

Table Name

Description

Comments

EPPCM_CONTENT

Parent content record, general metadata.

Contains content type indicator.

EPPCM_DOC

Content version details with the content and version ID.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CONT_ATTR

Content attributes.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_SUBSCRIBR

Subscribe to content privilege is set.

Users with the subscribe privilege can add or delete Managed Content members as interested parties.

EPPCM_IMAGE

Content version details with the content and version ID.

Used only by the Managed Content feature.

EPPCM_IMAGEUPL

Content image upload.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_HTMLTEXT

Content version details with the content and version ID.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_URL

Content version details with the content and version ID.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CREF

Content version details with the content and version ID.

Used for the Menu Item content type.

EPPCM_DOCINDB

BLOB record.

Repository for documents that are stored in the database instead of on an FTP file server.

Click to jump to parent topicCategorized Content

The following table lists the additional tables required by:

Table

Description

Notes

EPPCM_CATG_ATTR

Folder attributes, such as manual or automatically created.

Not applicable.

EPPCM_CONT_ATTR

Content attributes, such as manual versus auto-created.

Not applicable.

PS_EPPCM_SPIDR_AET

Run control state for the Content Categorization Spider application engine.

Not applicable.

PS_EPPCM_SPIDR_IDS

Content categorization spider application engine program content ID work table.

Not applicable.

PS_EPPCM_SPIDR_LGS

Content categorization spider application engine program search index languages.

Not applicable.

PS_EPPCM_SPIDR_RUN

Content categorization spider run control table.

Not applicable.

PS_EPPCM_SPIDR_DTL

Folder spider properties, such as folder mappings.

Not applicable.