UCM: Creating search and check-in profiles with custom metadata

To enhance the experience with Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM), users and clients create search and check-in profiles and, this way, they can adapt the Content Server to their business requirements.
To take full advantage of content management is essential to define what type of documents will be searched or checked-in on the system, defining and creating, in turn, new associated metadata.

Then, you can see a viewlet showing how to create new profiles and new metadata in Oracle UCM. The example shows how to add the new category "Training Documents" which has two new metadata fields, a simple type that contains the name of the instructor and other drop-down list with the type of training (presencial, online, self-study...).

Documentation:
Oracle's official documentation for UCM 11g

Downloads:
Oracle ECM suite 11g

Viewlet:
(Duration: 6 min.)

UCM: How to create a new skin and layout

There is the possibility to change the look & feel in UCM and, this way, adapt the user interface to any organization that works with this product: changing the logo for its own, modify colors and CSS style, ...

Below, you can see a viewlet showing the necessary steps to create a new layout. In this example, it copies an existing template and it modifies some selected elements.

Note: This viewlet is based in UCM 10g version

Step-by-step:
1) Copy any existing layout of the system in "Installation Path"/weblayout/resources/layouts
2) Modify images, CSS style or layout
3) Copy the modified layout to the system in "Installation Path"/weblayout/resources/layouts
4) Log-in into the Content Server with an user with administration rights
5) Open the Admin Server (Administration > Admin Server)
6) Add the Additional Configuration Variables:
LegacyScanLayoutsDirForAdditionalLayouts=true
LegacyScanLayoutsDirForAdditionalSkins=true
7) Restart the Content Server
8) Publish the static layout (Administration > Actions > Publish static layout files)
9) Publish schema and configuration data (Administration > Actions > Publish schema and configuration data)
10) Done. Log-in with any user and configure the new look & fell in his profile.

Related Links:
http://blogs.oracle.com/kyle/2009/08/ucm_custom_skins_and_layouts_a.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/ucm/samples/CreateLayout.zip
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10316_01/cs/cs_doc_10/sdk/modifying_interface/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

Documentation:
Oracle's oficial documentation for UCM 10g

Viewlet:
(Duration: 6min - Video comments in spanish)