8 IBM Content Manager OnDemand Guide
Figure 1-2   Reports and documents
1.2.3  Application, application group, folder, and cabinet
The terms application, application group, folder, and cabinet represent how Content 
Manager OnDemand stores, manages, distributes, retrieves, displays, and prints reports and 
index data. When you define a report or type of data to Content Manager OnDemand, an 
administrator must perform the following tasks:
/SM590000Create an application and assign the application to an application group. 
/SM590000Create or update a folder to use the application group and application so that users can 
search for and retrieve documents. 
/SM590000Optionally, create or update a cabinet. Cabinets are containers for collections of folders. 
They allow users to manage and navigate folders more easily.
Application
An application describes the physical characteristics of a report to Content Manager 
OnDemand. Typically, you define an application for each program that produces output to be 
stored in Content Manager OnDemand. The application includes information about the format 
of the data, the orientation of data on the page, the paper size, the record length, and the 
code page of the data. The application also includes parameters that the indexing program 
uses to locate and extract index data and processing instructions that Content Manager 
OnDemand uses to load index data in the database and documents on storage volumes.
Application group
An application group contains the storage management attributes of and index fields for the 
data that you load into Content Manager OnDemand. When you load a report into Content 
Manager OnDemand, you must identify the application group where Content Manager 
OnDemand loads the index data and stores the documents. 
An application group is a collection of one or more Content Manager OnDemand applications 
with common indexing and storage management attributes. Y ou typically group several 
related reports in an application group so that users can access the information that is 
contained in the reports with a single query. All of the applications in the application group 
must be indexed on one or more common fields, for example, customer name, account 
number, or date.
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