Migrating User Personalizations and Customizations in WebCenter Spaces

Each time when you extend WebCenter Spaces, previously done user personalizations and customizations are lost for obvious reasons - new WebCenter Spaces library is deployed and MDS is refreshed. Even user Group Space membership will be removed - default WebCenter Spaces screen:

Of course, we need to preserve user personalizations and customizations, we can't just extend and ask users to start once again from the beginning. We can achieve this with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, it allows us to export and import WebCenter Spaces application. Export and import includes user personalizations/customizations, security and services configurations - thats very helpful, it allows to create WebCenter Spaces backups and apply them later to restore WebCenter Spaces state. In order to run Export/Import, go to WebCenter Spaces application accessible from Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and invoke it from the menu:

In my specific use case, I was extending WebCenter Spaces with custom ADF Task Flows. When extended WebCenter Spaces library was deployed, I have imported WebCenter Spaces application backup (of course you shouldn't forget to export it before extending WebCenter Spaces :) ) with all personalizations/customizations, service configurations and security settings:

Import is in progress:

Finished successfully:

User redsam1 opens WebCenter Spaces, when it was extended and backup applied:

User personalizations and customizations remain present, also Group Spaces are available as it was before extending WebCenter Spaces:

If we would take a look into custom Resource Catalog, we would see one more custom ADF Task Flow added - Employees by Departments:

This means we have successfully extended WebCenter Spaces and preserved previous setup by exporting and importing it through Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Both custom ADF Task Flows can be added now to user space: