Book Image

The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By : Dmitri Khanine
Book Image

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

Chapter 10. Customizing Oracle UCM

In the previous chapter you learned how to migrate content and configuration. Now, that you're ready to open the floodgate of your UCM let's see how you can customize it and integrate into your overall Enterprise Architecture. You'll need some development background in Web Development, Java or .NET, and/or scripting languages to customize Oracle UCM.

Unlike all the previous chapters though, this one has a different purpose. I'm not trying to teach you how to customize and integrate Oracle UCM in an hour or two. It just won't be possible but what I can do well here is give you a few pointers and insider tips that will save you hours and days down the road. Here's what you'll learn:

  • How to smoothly integrate Oracle UCM into your enterprise—to wipe out dreaded manual double data entry and multiple "source of truth" repositories.

  • How to customize the Content Server interface by tapping into its powerful scripting and Dynamic Server Page resources.

  • How to maximize...