Programmatically creating Contributor Data Files

Question

In WebCenter Portal 11g PS5 and WebCenter Content PS5, doing something similar to Yannick's great tutorial here:
http://www.yonaweb.be/webcenter_tutorial/using_content_presenter_templates
A customer using a WebCenter Portal is not very enthousiastic about switching to the Site Studio Contributor to create and edit Contributor Data Files.
Is there a way to programatically create these files from within our portal (via, say, a custom task flow and RIDC) or a custom service in UCM?
Seems like Site Studio is doing a LOT in the background (SS_CHECKIN_WEB_ASSET, SS_GET_CONTRIBUTOR_STRINGS, then SS_CHECKIN_NEW) and not just checking in a new file which adheres to the Region Definition.

Answer 1

Thanks Jonathan, below provided information was useful. Now I have further queries:
Below is the code that I got from net but having some doubt about some classes like "TextCustomElement", "Field ", "CustomDataElement ". Are these classes available in RIDC APIs or not because I was not able to find out? Also let me clarify the steps that need to perform for updating the values of CDF file are mentioned below:
First CheckOut the CDF file
Execute the service "SS_SET_ELEMENT_DATA" by setting the element values
CheckIn back with new revision of this CDF file
Are these steps correct?
Is it possible for you to correct the below code and paste again in forum or send me the corrected file at [email protected]?
Thanks a ton for your help.
DataBinder oldBinder = clientConfig.getIdcClient().createBinder();
               oldBinder.putLocal("IdcService", "SS_SET_ELEMENT_DATA");
               oldBinder.putLocal("dDocName", oldBinder.getLocal("dDocName"));
               oldBinder.putLocal("dID", oldBinder.getLocal("dID"));
               DataResultSet columnResultSet = new DataResultSetImpl();
               Field elem = new Field("element");
               Field value= new Field("value");
               Field isList = new Field("isList");
               columnResultSet.addField(elem, "element");
               columnResultSet.addField(value, "value");
               columnResultSet.addField(isList, "isList");
for( CustomDataElement e : elementi)
                    DataObject valueList = new DataObjectImpl();
                    if( e instanceof ListCustomElement)
                         ListCustomElement listel = (ListCustomElement) e;
                         valueList.put("element", "cpsAttachmentIdList");
//                         valueList.put("value", "");
                         valueList.put("isList", "1");
                         List<CustomListRow> listRow = listel.getListRow();
                         DataResultSet listResultSet = new DataResultSetImpl();
                         Field idAttNode = new Field("ATTACHMENT_ID");
                         listResultSet.addField(idAttNode, "ATTACHMENT_ID");
                         for( CustomListRow r : listRow)
//                         list sub-elements
                              DataObject valueElement = new DataObjectImpl();
                              Set<String> keySet = r.keySet();
                              for(String k :keySet)
                                   TextCustomElement textCustomElement = r.get(k);
                                   valueElement.put("ATTACHMENT_ID", textCustomElement.getValue());
                                   listResultSet.addRow(valueElement);
//                         name of the element
                         oldBinder.addResultSet("sub-elements", listResultSet);
                    if( e instanceof TextCustomElement)
                         TextCustomElement textel = (TextCustomElement) e;
                         valueList.put("element", textel.getName());
                         valueList.put("value", textel.getValue());
                         valueList.put("isList", "0");
                    columnResultSet.addRow(valueList);
               oldBinder.addResultSet("SSElementData", columnResultSet);
               response = executeService( oldBinder);