Stepping Up with Splunk!

Posted by Elizabeth Makepeace on October 25, 2016 Function1 Operational Intelligence, Splunk, Splunk 6.4

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it in yourself.” –Edmund Lee

 

Splunk is an extremely versatile application, dissecting everything from a small csv file to multiple terabytes of data. I am a member of Function1’s Wellness Team as well as a part of the OI Practice. This year, the Wellness Team has decided to revamp itself and I thought Splunk would be a great tool to utilize to track our progress and feedback from...

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Work From Home Successfully

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on October 20, 2016 Best Practices work from home, Best Practices, tips

While working from a virtual environment offers many benefits, it can sometimes be challenging with all of the various distractions, which you may not experience in an office environment.  From thinking about and tackling your day-to-day responsibilities, to having a television nearby, all of these things can easily run you off course making it difficult to concentrate on work and manage your time efficiently.

Below are some tips that can help curb those distractions, and allow for you to be successful in the workplace, whether you work from an office or not.

Set a routine –...
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How to create a custom left navigation pane in WebCenter Sites Contributor UI (11.1.1.8)

Posted by Jesty Thomas on October 18, 2016 Web Experience Management WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, 11.1.1.8.0

In this blog, I would like to show how to create a custom left navigation pane in contributor UI for 11g. As the name suggests, navigation panes are used to show trees or navigation hierarchy for assets within a site.

To create a new navigation pane, we will, first need to extend the LeftNaviagtionConfig element. This element can be found here:

UI/Layout

Copy content of this element into a new CSElement. For this example, create the following element.

CustomElements/<your site name>/UI/Layout/...

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Investigating Sites Tables in R

Posted by Michael Crawford on October 13, 2016 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle, Database

A very common theme is being asked to do some analysis on a WebCenter Sites installation but not having direct access to the system.

In this blog we will show you how you can take simple Sites Explorer or Catalog Mover exports and interrogate them in R.

If you are not familiar with R you can find more information at https://www.r-project.org/.  Basically it is a statistical programing language which does many things like you would do in Excel except programatically.

First we load up the XML library to process the html files:...

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WEM Assets: Understanding the Assets in WebCenter Sites

Posted by Eric Brengle on October 11, 2016 Web Experience Management WEM, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Assets

One of the great advantages of implementing a web experience management tool such as WebCenter Sites is the standardization and management of assets. In the words of many of my non-developer friends and even my own father, Long pause …“Ok that doesn’t mean anything to me, I thought you built websites. What is an asset?”   

Simply put in WCS everything is an asset. Let me explain. An asset is defined as:

“An object that stored in the WCS database that can be created, edited, inspected, deleted, duplicated, placed into workflow, tracked through revision tracking,...

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