Vanity URLs in OWCS 11.1.1.8.0: Known Bugs as of Patch 12

Posted by Freddy Villalba on March 01, 2016 Web Experience Management Oracle, WebCenter Sites, Vanity URL

Oracle Webcenter Sites' vanity URLs have quickly become one of the most popular features in this product.

Multiple clients have already benefited from this feature significantly, but they've also had to struggle as bugs and shortcomings impacted their respective projects.

In the years we've been assessing clients on the use of OWCS, we've found frustration in many cases, derived from their not being aware not only of the existance of those flaws but, more importantly, the impact they have on the technical solutions they've implemented around their websites' business...

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Success Story: Wycliffe College - Rebranding a Religious Community

Posted by Caroline Givnish on February 23, 2016 Drupal function1, Drupal, redesign

WycliffeCollege.ca

The Opportunity:

After successfully creating & deploying a redesigned, responsive Drupal solution for The Toronto School of Theology (TST), our team was approached by Wycliffe College (an instrumental member of TST’s ecumenical consortium) with the hopes of realizing similar gains for their own website.

When Wycliffe College contacted our team, their website was dated from a visual, content organization, and technology perspective. Our mission was to portray Wycliffe as the vibrant, unique place it is; by...

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OWCS 11.1.1.8 Missing Nodes in Site Plan Tree

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on February 16, 2016 Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, Oracle WebCenter Sites, FatWire

You wake up one morning, get into work, grab your morning coffee and log into Web Center Sites.  As you sip your coffee you look at the Site Plan Tree tab, which contains the 600 or so pages that you painstakingly organized with pride.  You get an email saying that now Page X needs to be moved under Page Y for the breadcrumbs.

You put down your coffee and you start to drag Page X under Page Y.  Page X has 100 pages underneath it and the dragging seems to lag.  You let go of your mouse button only to see the Page and all its children disappear.  You frantically expand various nodes...

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A Dabble in Agile

Posted by Allan Mai on February 02, 2016 Development agile, waterfall, Development
One of our more recent projects took us agile. It was a great learning experience and the take-aways were generally positive. The agile methodology places a satisfied customer and continuous delivery at the forefront. By adhering to a number of the Agile Manifesto tenets the team is able to deliver value faster and the feedback loop between the developer and customer is narrowed down considerably. This focused feedback loop allows for a rapid realigning of expectations and goals from persistent contact and collaboration with the team involved.
 
Utilizing agile...
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