WebCenter Spaces – Extend User Profile Page

Hi All,
We have a requirement to modify the default user profile page in WCS.
We have to remove most of the fields and add additional fields that are specific for the customer. According to the extending the WCS white paper you can only get / set the data in existing fields based on creating a customProfileattribute.
Is this possible at the current stage of evolution of WCS?
Cheers
Bob

In my current project, we have similar requirement.
To Remove existing attributes:-
You can hide profile fields after customizing User/My Profile Pages from WCS -->Administration --> Pages-->System Pages. See following guides:-
7.3 Working with System Pages: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/webcenter.1111/e10149/admin_pages.htm#CJABBBCE
30.5 Viewing and Editing Personal Profiles: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/webcenter.1111/e10149/profile.htm#CHDDIHJG
To Add new attributes:
You can add new fields in profile page of WebCenter Spaces by using SampleWebCenterSpacesExtensions application. You can take instructions from following guide:-
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webcenter/owcs-ps3-wcs-ext-samples-wp-308576.pdf. There are following two class files in ProfileAttribute project
a. ExtendedProfileAttributes (You need to add new LDAP attributes in this class)
b. CustomProfileImpl (You can override existing attribute by using this class)
Once you done adding new attributes in ExtendedProfileAttributes, deploy this project as a shared-lib. Then you have to follow following guide in order to see your changes in WebCenter Spaces:-
53 Extending WebCenter Spaces Using JDeveloper: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/webcenter.1111/e10148/jpsdg_wcsres.htm#CHDEECCE

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