Document manager customization

Question

Hi All,
I am using document manager to display some of the attachment which is stored in my folder located
at content server .
1. I just want to display my attachment in grid format instead of tree is it possible ?
2. Is it possible to display only upload and delete icon and disable rest of icon from document manager .
3. Is it possible to create a folder on content server from my api on performing certain action .
4. If i know the username(test1) and passwd (test2) has the acccess to CS .
Can i assign to a particular content manger to authorize at page load time ?
Thanks,
Arun.

Answer 1

Managed to finish the app.
Below you can find the code of the most important files:
First my UCM_TEST class. This class i have used to test the IDC API and to use as an upload and delete function.
The implementation is not realy clean. In normal environments you will have a controller taking care of the IdcContext and IdcClient instead of creating one every single call. As you can see.. it is fairly easy to create a connection and call the service
package services2;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Iterator;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.IdcClient;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.IdcClientManager;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.IdcContext;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.model.DataBinder;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.model.DataObject;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.model.DataResultSet;
import oracle.stellent.ridc.protocol.ServiceResponse;
public class UCM_TEST {
    public UCM_TEST() {
        super();
    public static void upload(File f,String title,String name) {
      try
        IdcClientManager manager = new IdcClientManager();
        IdcClient idcClient = manager.createClient("idc://localhost:4444");
        IdcContext userContext = new IdcContext("weblogic", "weblogic1");
        // populate the binder with the parameters
        DataBinder binder = idcClient.createBinder();
        binder.putLocal ("IdcService", "CHECKIN_UNIVERSAL");
        // get the binder
        binder.putLocal ("dDocTitle", title);
        binder.putLocal ("dDocName", name);
        binder.putLocal ("dDocType", "Document");
        binder.putLocal ("dSecurityGroup", "Public");
        // add a file
        binder.addFile ("primaryFile",f);
        // checkin the file
        ServiceResponse response = idcClient.sendRequest (userContext, binder);
        DataBinder serverBinder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        binder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        Iterator it = binder.getResultSetNames().iterator();
        while(it.hasNext()) {
          System.out.println(it.next());
      catch(Exception e)
            e.printStackTrace();
    public static void deleteContent(String id,String name) {
      try
        IdcClientManager manager = new IdcClientManager();
        IdcClient idcClient = manager.createClient("idc://localhost:4444");
        IdcContext userContext = new IdcContext("weblogic", "weblogic1");
        // populate the binder with the parameters
        DataBinder binder = idcClient.createBinder();
        binder.putLocal ("IdcService", "DELETE_DOC");
        // get the binder
        binder.putLocal ("dID", id);
        binder.putLocal ("dDocName", name);
        ServiceResponse response = idcClient.sendRequest (userContext, binder);
        DataBinder serverBinder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        binder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        Iterator it = binder.getResultSetNames().iterator();
        while(it.hasNext()) {
          System.out.println(it.next());
      catch(Exception e)
            e.printStackTrace();
    public static  void main(String[] args)
      try
        IdcClientManager manager = new IdcClientManager();
        IdcClient idcClient = manager.createClient("idc://localhost:4444");
        IdcContext userContext = new IdcContext("weblogic", "weblogic1");
        // populate the binder with the parameters
        DataBinder binder = idcClient.createBinder();
        binder.putLocal ("IdcService", "CHECKIN_UNIVERSAL");
        // get the binder
        binder.putLocal ("dDocTitle", "Test File");
        binder.putLocal ("dDocName", "test-checkin-8");
        binder.putLocal ("dDocType", "Document");
        binder.putLocal ("dSecurityGroup", "Public");
        // add a file
        binder.addFile ("primaryFile", new File ("C:\\test\\test.txt"));
        // checkin the file
        ServiceResponse response = idcClient.sendRequest (userContext, binder);
        DataBinder serverBinder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        binder = response.getResponseAsBinder ();
        Iterator it = binder.getResultSetNames().iterator();
        while(it.hasNext()) {
          System.out.println(it.next());
      catch(Exception e)
            e.printStackTrace();
}I add a popup that shows when the user clicks the upload button in my JSPX:
<af:commandButton id="btnUpload" text="Upload" partialSubmit="true">
                  <af:showPopupBehavior triggerType="click" popupId="popUpload"/>
</af:commandButton>
<af:popup id="popUpload" contentDelivery="lazyUncached">
                <af:dialog id="dlgUpload" title="Upload document"
                           dialogListener="#{IndexBean.dialogListener}">
                  <af:panelFormLayout id="frmUpload">
                  <af:inputText id="txtName" label="Name" value="#{IndexBean.name}"/>
                    <af:inputText id="txtTitle" label="Title" value="#{IndexBean.title}"/>
                    <af:inputFile id="txtFile"  label="File" value="#{IndexBean.file}"/>
                  </af:panelFormLayout>
                </af:dialog>
              </af:popup>In my bean IndexBean i use the dialogListener to call the UCM_TEST class:
    public void dialogListener(DialogEvent dialogEvent)
        try
         if(dialogEvent.getOutcome() != DialogEvent.Outcome.no)
            System.out.println("File uploaded: " + file.getLength() + file.getFilename());
            File f = IsToFile(file.getInputStream(),file.getFilename());
            UCM_TEST.upload(f,title,name);
        catch(Exception e) {
          System.out.println("error uploading file: " + e.getMessage());
    private File IsToFile(InputStream is,String filename)
      try
        File f=new File(filename);
            OutputStream out=new FileOutputStream(f);
            byte buf[]=new byte[1024];
            int len;
            while((len=is.read(buf))>0)
            out.write(buf,0,len);
            out.close();
            return f;
      catch(Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Error in converting file: " + e.getMessage());
        return null;
    }You need to convert the inputStream of the UploadFile (this is the type you have from the af:inputFile value) to a regular java File object so we can add it to the UCM service. That's why you need the IsToFile function.
I haven't implemented the delete but it has been added to the UCM_TEST class so you only need to get the values of dId and dDocName and call the ucm_test method.
I will write a whitepaper about integrating UCM with webcenter and will discuss these techniques in a bit more detail with screenshots and so. In the whitepaper i will try to create a complete utility to use UCM and RIDC in webcenter application.
It can take a few days or a week to finish it but meanwhile you have the means to create whatever you want using the RIDC api :)
As you also might noticed is that you upload the document without a folder. If you want to store the document in a folder you will need to set the xCollectionID parameter but then you need to find out the collectionID. Therefore you will need to use the folder service to get the folderID from a folder name.
I will also include this in my whitepaper...
Hope this helps :)
Edit: these are the links to the documentation that comes in handy:
Use of RIDC API: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e16819.pdf
Overview of available services and their parameters in UCM: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e11011.pdf
The last one is very handy... It describes every single service available in UCM.
Edited by: Yannick Ongena on Oct 13, 2010 10:52 AM