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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By : Dmitri Khanine
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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By: Dmitri Khanine

Overview of this book

Oracle UCM is a world-leading Enterprise Content Management platform. From Document Management, Web, Records, and more—Oracle has got all your business needs covered. Oracle UCM enables your organization to efficiently manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents. Written by Oracle ACE Dmitri Khanine, this book is a complete practical guide to building an ECM system and successfully configuring, administering, and operating it. It also shows you how to efficiently manage your organization's content and customize the UCM to fit your needs. This book wastes no time in getting you up and running and dives straight into the installation of the content server in Chapter 1. In the second chapter, you will master all the major controls and the admin interface. Metadata—a very important ingredient of any ECM—is thoroughly covered in Chapter 3. The book then moves on to the important tasks of securing your ECM system, configuring and managing workflows, and understanding and implementing virtual folders. The book also gives you an under-the-hood view of Stellent in Chapter 7. In the later chapters, you will learn how to migrate content like a pro and easily customize Oracle ECM. A bonus addition to the book is the final chapter, which is an easy-to-follow primer on web content management.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgement
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Up and Running
Exploring Oracle UCM Product Offering
Index

Customizing the content server


When it comes to customizing the Content Server you really have the oceans of options in front of you. Almost any customization you can imagine you can implement with the tools and techniques I'm giving you in this section. Let us start with a few real-life examples.

Examples of common customizations

The most common customization I've seen is the need to apply some custom processing after check in. You may need to do things like applying new metadata values based on the item's location in your folder structure, or simply customizing its content ID based on the new value of content type.

Applying custom logic after check-in

Take a look at this snippet of java code. This is all the code it takes to write a custom component for temporary changing the value of AutoNumberPrefix Content Server configuration variable, based on the content type of the document you're just about to check in. This lets you generate more meaningful content IDs, like ACC_0247 for Accounting...