Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) 10g has built-in SOAP interfaces to integrate with surrounding applications and tools.
For check-in purposes there is “CheckInUniversal” SOAP operation where you can check-in new documents into UCM. By default you can set all the main metadata but not folder information.
There is a way to set the target folder, if you needed to show the document in “traditional” file folder structure. For some reason the information how to do this seems to be a bit hard to find, that is why I publish this for wider audience (search engines should find).
There are two extra CustomDocMetaData properties you could use:
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xCollectionName
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xCollectionID
You specify one of the above properties. The end result is something like this:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:chec="http://www.stellent.com/CheckIn/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<chec:CheckInUniversal>
<chec:dDocName>OracleLogoSmall</chec:dDocName>
<chec:dDocTitle>Oracle logo</chec:dDocTitle>
<chec:dDocType>DOCUMENT</chec:dDocType>
<chec:dDocAuthor>weblogic</chec:dDocAuthor>
<chec:dSecurityGroup>WebCenter</chec:dSecurityGroup>
<chec:dDocAccount></chec:dDocAccount>
<chec:CustomDocMetaData>
<chec:property>
<chec:name>xComments</chec:name>
<chec:value>This is Oracle small logo</chec:value>
</chec:property>
<!--
<chec:property>
<chec:name>xCollectionID</chec:name>
<chec:value>31</chec:value>
</chec:property>
-->
<chec:property>
<chec:name>xCollectionName</chec:name>
<chec:value>/Contribution Folders/Logos/</chec:value>
</chec:property>
</chec:CustomDocMetaData>
<chec:primaryFile>
<chec:fileName>oracle_logo_small.gif</chec:fileName>
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</chec:fileContent>
</chec:primaryFile>
</chec:CheckInUniversal>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
Word of Warning
I recognized some in some situations inconsitent behaviour (somebody might call it bug ;). Once you create a new virtual folder and try to check in documents into this folder using SOAP interface and xCollectionName, for some reason the documents end up not having the folder name. I recognized that once I called the check-in service first time with xCollectionID and then continued with xCollectionName, everything seemed to work ok.
This seems to have something to do with UCM interface folder data structures not being populated properly when a new folder is created. Bouncing the UCM server after creating the folder didn’t have any effect so the recommendation is to use xCollectionID at least once to enable using xCollectionName later.
