Check In Page Customisation

Question

We need to change the default content check-in page in UCM, and haven't had luck finding info in the documentation.
The two things we want to do are:
1. Change True/False and Yes/No option lists to check/tick boxes
2. Change width of metadata fields based on views
For 1, I have a vague memory of the trainer saying that we can do this by modifying a javascript file somewhere. I can't remember where or how to do it. I assume this is a fairly common thing to do.
For 2, when an option list is loaded from a View/Table the default html list width of "19" characters is used when the table field length is 255 characters. The actual metadata stored is the id number of the row, the text is selected by the user but it is truncated by the edge of the option list box. I can't see any where to change this.
Also the field length seems to affect Content Categorizer for these same fields, it will truncate it to 19 characters when the full text is found. Is there any explaination for this?
Thanks,
Ryan.

Answer 1

I'm able to present the checkboxes and assign the value to metadata using the following code:
<$if strEquals(fieldName, "xLang") and not (isInfo or isQuery)$>
<script>
function boxFunc()
var textval=document.getElementsByName('xLang')[0];
var langs=document.getElementsByName("ucmlang");
larray="";
for(i=0;i<langs.length;i++)
if(langs.checked)
larray=larray+langs[i].id+",";
larray=larray.substring(0,larray.length-1);
textval.value=larray;
</script>
<tr <$strTrimWs(inc("std_nameentry_row_attributes"))$>>
<td<$if captionFieldWidth$>width="<$captionFieldWidth$>"<$endif$> <$if isInfo$>align=right<$endif$>><$strTrimWs(inc(fieldCaptionInclude))$></td>
<td <$if isFieldInfoOnly$>colspan="100"<$endif$> <$if captionEntryWidth$>;width="<$captionEntryWidth$>"<$endif$>><$inc(fieldEntryInclude)$></td>
<td><!– addition –>English<!– end addition –><input type="checkbox" name="ucmlang" id = "English" onclick="boxFunc()">
<td><!– addition –>French<!– end addition –><input type="checkbox" name="ucmlang" id = "French" onclick="boxFunc()"></td>
<td><!– addition –>Italian<!– end addition –><input type="checkbox" name="ucmlang" id = "Italian" onclick="boxFunc()"></td>
<td><!– addition –>German<!– end addition –><input type="checkbox" name="ucmlang" id = "German" onclick="boxFunc()"></td>
<td><!– addition –>Japanese<!– end addition –><input type="checkbox" name="ucmlang" id = "Japanese" onclick="boxFunc()"></td>
</tr>
<$else$>
<$include super.std_nameentry_row$>
<$endif$>
but i'm stuck which include to modify in case of the update metadata form.
Edited by: user1175496 on Nov 15, 2012 11:13 PM