Webtop uses Documentum’s Advanced Document Transformation Services and Media Transformation Services to provide the functionality needed to transform a file in order to create a new rendition. For most file types, you can create new renditions using these products.
Transformations to create new renditions occur on one item at a time and requests are processed asynchronously, meaning that new renditions may not be available immediately. You receive a notification in your Inbox when a transformation is completed or if a transformation fails.
Not all features mentioned below are available for all file formats and some file formats cannot be transformed. See Renditions overview and Transformations overview for more information on Renditions and Transformations.
This procedure describes how to create a new rendition of a file through transformation.
To create a new rendition through transformation:
Navigate to the file that you want to transform to create a new rendition.
You can transform a parent file or another rendition. (Locating renditions is described in Viewing renditions.)
Do one of the following:
In the Streamline view, on the line item for the file, click More>Tools>Transform (More Options)
In the Classic view, select the checkbox for the file, then select Tools>Transform>More Formats
Select the checkbox for the file(s) and click Transform in the toolbar.
The Transform wizard appears. Do the following:
In the Choose Transformation Type section, select Create a New Rendition and click Next.
The Select Transformation screen appears displaying the selected file and the available transformations for the selected files.
In the Select Transformation screen, select a transformation profile and click Next.
If the Transformation Details screen appears, enter any information necessary for setting the parameters of the transformation and click Next.
If a rendition of this file in the same format already exists, then you may be able to differentiate the new rendition you are creating by entering a description in the Rendition Description field.
You may also select whether you want to perform this transformation every time the parent object is versioned, and whether to set this rendition as the default preview rendition.
This page does not appear in Webtop applications. Webtop allows only one rendition of each file format.
If you have selected multiple files for this transformation, click Next. Alternatively, if you wish to apply the selected parameters to all of the files selected for the transformation, or if you have selected only one file to transform, click Finish.
If you are prompted that a file of the same format and description already exists, you can overwrite the existing file by clicking Yes. You can keep both the new file and the existing file by clicking No. Selecting No also requires that you enter a description. This depends on whether you already entered a Rendition Description in the previous step.
This prompt does not appear in Webtop applications. Webtop allows only one rendition of each file format.
Click Finish.
The transformation request is immediately sent to the appropriate queue for processing.