11 Virtual Content Repository Services

This chapter describes the services used by applications that work with the Virtual Content Repository (VCR) service provider interface, which is used by the Oracle WebLogic Portal as a way to expose content from different repositories. The Oracle Universal Content Management Oracle Content Server application supports VCR functionality.

11.1 Virtual Content Repository Services

The following Virtual Content Repository (VCR) services are described in this section:

• VCR_FOLDER_INFO

• VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPE

• VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPES

• VCR_GET_DOCUMENT

• VCR_GET_DOCUMENT_BY_NAME

11.1.1 VCR_FOLDER_INFO

Service that is used to retrieve information about a Folders_g folder having the content and in the format required by the Virtual Content Repository service provider interface.

Service Class: DocService

Additional Required Service Parameters

One of the following parameters to identify the Folders_g folder:

• dCollectionID: The folder ID of the folder containing the target content.

• dCollectionPath: The path to the folder containing the target content.

Results

• Result Sets:

  • VcrNode:

    • createdBy

    • createdDate

    • hasChildren

    • modifiedBy

    • modifiedDate

    • name

    • objectClass

    • parentID

    • path

  • VcrPropertyValues:

    • dChildManipulation

    • dCollectionCreator

    • dCollectionEnabled

    • dCollectionGUID

    • dCollectionID

    • dCollectionInherit

    • dCollectionMark

    • dCollectionModifier

    • dCollectionName

    • dCollectionOwner

    • dCollectionPath

    • dCollectionQueries

    • dCollectionType

    • dCreateDate

    • dDependent

    • dDocAccount

    • dDocAuthor

    • dDocName

    • dDocTitle

    • dDocType

    • dInDate

    • dLastModifiedDate

    • dOutDate

    • dParentCollectionID

    • dPromptForMetadata

    • dReleaseDate

    • dRevLabel

    • dSecurityGroup

    • xClbraAliasList

    • xClbraRoleList

    • xClbraUserList

    • xCollectionID

    • xComments

    • xDontShowInListsForWebsites

    • xEmailCC

    • xEmailFrom

    • xEmailSubject

    • xEmailTo

    • xForceFolderSecurity

    • xHidden

    • xIdcProfile

    • xInhibitUpdate

    • xprofileTrigger

    • xPublicationDate

    • xReadOnly

    • xReceivedDate

    • xRegionDefinition

    • xt

    • xTrashDeleteDate

    • xTrashDeleteLoc

    • xTrashDeleteName

    • xTrashDeleter

    • xtestdec2

    • xtestdec3

    • xtTestField1

    • xtTestField2

    • xtextINTEGER

    • xWebsiteObjectType

    • xWebsites

    • xWebsiteSection

11.1.2 VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPE

Service that requests detailed information about a particular Virtual Content Repository content type.

Service Class: Service

Additional Required Service Parameters

• vcrContentType: The ID of the content type; also referred to as the content type's name.

Results

• Result Sets:

  • VcrContentType

  • VcrProperties

  • VcrPropertyChoices:

    • FIELDNAME

11.1.3 VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPES

Service that requests a list of all Virtual Content Repository content types defined by the system.

Service Class: Service

Results

• Result Sets:

  • VcrContentTypes

11.1.4 VCR_GET_DOCUMENT

Service that retrieves content item information for a specific revision of a content item.

This service is almost identical to the DOC_INFO service, however, the data returned is modified to be easier to work with in a Virtual Content Repository context.

Service Class: Service

Additional Required Service Parameters

• dID: The generated content item revision ID.

Results

• Result Sets:

  • VcrPropertyValues:

    • all standard DOC_INFO ResultSet columns returned by the DOC_INFO service

    • idcPrimaryFile

    • idcRenditions

  • REVISION_HISTORY:

    • dDocName

    • dFormat

    • dID

    • dInDate

    • dOutDate

    • dProcessingState

    • dRevLabel

    • dRevisionID for all non-deleted revisions

    • dStatus

11.1.5 VCR_GET_DOCUMENT_BY_NAME

Service that retrieves information about the latest revision of a content item based on the content ID (the dDocName) as a parameter.

This service is almost identical to DOC_INFO_BY_NAME service, however, the data returned is modified to be easier to work with in a Virtual Content Repository context.

Service Class: Service

Additional Required Service Parameters

• dDocName: The content item name.

Optional Service Parameters

• RevisionSelectionMethod: Can be set to Latest to retrieve the most recent version, or LatestReleased to retrieve the most recently released version, or Specific (if set to Specific, a dID must be provided). If set to Specific, dID can be used instead of dDocName to point to a specific revision.

Results

• Result Sets:

  • VcrPropertyValues:

    • all standard DOC_INFO ResultSet columns returned by the DOC_INFO service

    • idcPrimaryFile

    • idcRenditions

  • REVISION_HISTORY:

    • dDocName

    • dFormat

    • dID

    • dInDate

    • dOutDate

    • dProcessingState

    • dRevisionID for all non-deleted revisions

    • dRevLabel

    • dStatus