Senior Oracle ECM Consultants required for ME

I have several openings for Oracle ECM consultants, the openings are with a couple of companies. The required resources should have good experience with Oracle ECM for three years at least, and preferable to be based on Saudi Arabia (Having Visa there is a big plus), Jordan, Egypt, and Kuwait.

Send to me you resume, so that I will forward it to the companies. My email is hisham.galal.eldin@gmail.com (note most likely I am not the interviewer, I am just broker :) ).

If you are talented fresh graduate (I mean you have done something interesting) either your experience in ECM or other FMW products, send your resume too you are most welcomed.

Modify Workflow Popup

Recently I got requirement to modify workflow popup menu according to certain conditions

The following explains how simply to do that:

• Go to the following directory <middleware_home>/Oracle_ECM1/ucm/idc/resources/core/idoc
• In that directory, we have two interesting files that contains most of resource includes that we desire to customize std_page.idoc & std_workflow.idoc
• As per our requirement of customizing Workflow related feature so our target will be std_workflow.idoc, inside it you will find an include called setup_workflow_action_popups
• I will assume you will be able to create a new component, and add a resource file to it, then inside that resource file copy and past the include setup_workflow_action_popups from std_workflow.idoc as is.
• Now lets take a look at the include

You will find there repeating parts in the include everyone is representing an item in the popup menu.

<$exec rsAppendNewRow("PopupProps")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "label", lc(""))$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "function", "")$>
<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "ifClause", "")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "class", "workflow")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "id", "")$>

id: unique i for the popup menu item

class: will be always workflow

function: either a link location or javascript calls. The link may be composited by idoc script

label: localized display label for the popup menu item

ifClause: Which is the amazing feature, it is the condition for displaying the menu item and it can be something like dDocType like 'Correspondence' and of course you can make use of the existing conditions like AllowReview & AllowCheckin 

Here is an example of a new item I added

<$exec rsAppendNewRow("PopupProps")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "label", lc("wwUpdateAndApprove"))$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "function", "<$HttpCgiPath$&>IdcService=GET_UPDATE_FORM&dDocType=Correspondence&dID=<$dID$>&dDocName=<$url(dDocName)$>&idcToken=<$idcToken$>")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "ifClause", "dDocType like 'Correspondence'")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "class", "workflow")$>

<$exec setValue("PopupProps", "id", "workflowUpdateAndApprove")$>

The two resource file std_page.idoc & std_workflow.idoc will make you very powerful, don't miss them and don't give up until you find your needs.

Removing Subscribe and Unsubscribe from DOC_INFO template

Someone called Anonymous :D has commented from days on one of my posts asking me how to remove subscribe and unsubscribe menu items.

To do that will need to modify a resource include called docinfo_menus_setup.

Simply follow these steps if you are not familiar with Oracle UCM ComponentsWizard utility
- Open ComponentWizard utility
- Add new component, choose a name you want
- Add new Resource of type HTML Include/String 
- Inside in the new resource file, select an existing resource include called docinfo_menus_setup
- Do your modifications on the code inside the chosen include, enable the component, and restart the server.

I hope it is helpful for you Anonymous
.

Oracle UCM Benchmarking

Oracle says "The 11g version of UCM was enhanced to enable exceptional performance even when dealing with extremely large volumes of content, including ingestion rates of over one hundred million content items per day."

I have found a white paper from Oracle which can give us a sample benchmark for Oracle UCM, which is helpful for us in expecting UCM performance:

Those results are based on a physical machine with specification 2 CPU 2.33 GHz Xeon®, 16 GB RAM, and as we know processing power is matters and affecting both of performance and license cost.

Guys did hear about "ECM Maturity Model"

As the post title asks "Did you hear about ECM Maturity Model?"

If you are not, go and visit it, and download this document. It is great job, but what I liked is page number 12 and the matrix there. I didn't use it in a project but I imagine it will be helpful for me as a consultant working in a project where using it I can assess how much maturity we reached in that project.

However, the website and the document lacks a lot of information, may misguide some people. Also I saw the same things discussed there before, like for example in Bex's last book "", but really I like their remarkable maturity matrix.

Anyway it's nice work and I advice by taking a look on it.

I am AIIM professional member

What's ECM?

What Is ECM?

From: norwiz,
4 days ago

What Is ECM?

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: management' web)

The presentation provides you with an overview of Enterprise Content Management, and related concepts such as document management, collaboration, workflow, electronic records management, and web content management.

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Integrating Universal Content Management with Active Directory

Here I will list steps for integrating Active Directory with Universal Content Management, then I will list troubleshooting tips for this integration. I wish it will be helpful for someone.

Integration Steps

1. Create organization unit in Active Directory named Stellent

2. Create a sub organization unit under Stellent named Roles

3. Under Roles create AD Security Groups with the same name as UCM Roles (like contributor, and admin)

4. In Content Server Home Page, open Admin Server page

5. Open Content Server instance that we will integrate on

6. Open Internet Configuration page

7. From Use Microsoft Security options choose Active Directory Security option

8. Restart Content Server for the current instance

9. In Content Server Home Page, under Administration tab open Filter Administration page

10. In front of Active Directory Security, click on Configure link

11. Under Role Prefix, add the following “OU=Roles,OU=Stellent[1]”

12. Click Update, at end of the Filter Administration page

13. Restart Content Server, and IIS (restart IIS from Servcies)

Troubleshooting Steps

If you faced any problem after the above steps, check the following

1. In IIS, open Direct Security, for Content Server website, then edit Authentication and access control, then ensure that Anonymous access and Integrated Windows authentication are enabled. After modification restart IIS

2. In Active Directory and Active Directory Configuration page (in Content Server Home Page) ensure that you didn’t misspell organization units names and AD security groups

3. In Active Directory Configuration page (in Content Server Home Page) ensure that you didn’t but spaces between words under Role Prefix

4. If you still face a problem restart IIS (from Services, not from Administration), and Content Server.

5. At last, if you still face a problem ensure you did the above steps well, and Restart Windows

ECM spending Cuts; God help Us!

According to ChangeWave Research Report ECM market will face great cuts in spending.

I think Gulf region will not face that problems, but in other places in Middle East atproblem will apply, like in my country Egypt, because when companies think in savements and limiting their budges, IT department will be the first one affected.

I ask myself why people didn't think in ROI, where most solutions will improve companies quality and employees efficiency.

Gartner said

Gartner said
"Oracle still faces significant challenges in competing with IBM and EMC for large ECM deals"
Also they said
"More than 54% of the market, as measured by total software revenue, is held by just three vendors — EMC, IBM and Open Text."

I am as an Oracle ECM consultant, I wish they succeed in their compition in ECM market. I work in Middle East and we face lake in ECM knwoledge either from Oracle Partners or Oracle Customers. I wish Oracle focus in improving ECM knowledege not only in technical but also is business needs and uses.

Oracle WCM training

Last week I provided Oracle Web Content Management Training under Oracle university. It was the first one in the Middle East, and I am happy for that, and I think I did it well.

I wish I will provide all Oracle Content Management Courses, and I wil e able to improve ECM skills in Middle East

By The I didn't take any course in Oracle Content Management, where I depened on myself. I think self learning is very useful but most companies will wait and most people have not this skill.