Fix: Importing elements from a 12.2.1.0 JSK using CatalogMover

Posted by Allan Mai on November 10, 2016 Development WebCenter Sites 12c, Development, WCS

Recently ran into an interesting situation working with the current release of the WebCenter Sites JSK (12.2.1.0) that I felt was worth noting. While most aspects of the JSK and development environment are packed away into tidy shell scripts ( start, stop, cleanup, etc.), using the CatalogMover utility would often fail when trying to perform a catalog import.

Using CatalogMover to perform an element import is a common step in many set-ups, from installing GSF, to populating a fresh development environment with existing elements.

Attempting to...

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Drupal Commerce

Posted by Hani Atalla on November 08, 2016 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal Commerce, eCommerce, UberCart
Recently I had the opportunity to setup a bilingual Drupal eCommerce site for a client.  My immediate reaction was to use Drupal Commerce for this project. After all, it's architectural design and codebase are more inline with Drupal's best practices, especially with the use of entities for each product variation (size, color, etc. where each variation would have its unique SKU) whereas UberCart treats each product as a separate node all together. I find the former approach more...
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CSDT Tips

Posted by Somen De on November 01, 2016 Best Practices, Web Experience Management owcs, WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites

CSDT can have a tendency to be "delicate", especially the 7.6 version. At Function1 we recently completed an upgrade from Fatwire 7.6 to WebCenter Sites 11g for a client, and we used quite a lot of CSDT to get the data migrated. Below are some of the lessons we learned along the way, which we bring to you in this blog as useful CSDT tips.

Tip #1: The "toSites" Catch

Say for example that you have exported Site1's assets to a datastore "Site1" using the "fromSites" parameter and supplying "Site1" as the value. That means of course that the datastore "Site1" contains assets...

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Modifying the Approval Screen in the Contributor UI

Posted by Mike Field on October 27, 2016 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Customizations
In some cases, you may want to approve two or more assets at a time. For example, suppose every time you approve a widget asset, you want to automatically approve the Page asset containing it. Because the Page is not a dependency of the Widget, WCS doesn’t automatically ask you to approve it.
 
So, it would be helpful to have the Approval Screen automatically show both the Widget and Page assets. Making this customization is straightforward.
 
The elements controlling what’s displayed on the Approval screen are the following:
UI/Layout/...
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