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Import your WCI Content in Drupal

Posted by Hani Atalla on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:09 Development, Web Experience Management Drupal, Export, Import, JSON, Migration, Node, PHP, Script, wci, XML

I wanted to blog about something exciting and relative to the current hour such as "who will win the coming presidential race to the Whitehouse", especially that the first presidential debate of 2012 is looming (personally I think Jim Lehrer is pretty lame and would have preferred to see Oprah Winfrey conducting these debates.)  But my friend ...

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Installing WebCenter Sites 11gR1 on Windows

Posted by Mitul Patel on Friday, September 21, 2012 - 13:08 Web Experience Management FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WEM

So you're a PC and not a mac (or a line-ux either for that matter) and somehow you find yourself yearning to test drive and/or develop on the latest release of Fatwire Content Server...eh hem...I mean't Oracle WebCenter Sites? Well then you've come to the right place. I will walk you through some of the idiosyncrasies of getting a local WCS 11gR1 instance up using and running on a machine running Windows 7.

Caveat Emptor: The 12 steps outlined below may lead you to another type of 12 steps...just sayin'

Step 1: Download and install the latest version of JDK...

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Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1: Displaying an Asset via a Template

Posted by Somen De on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 12:10 Web Experience Management, Development Basic Asset, Development, FatWire, flex family, Media Asset, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WEM

Hello everyone! Welcome to a simple tutorial that will demonstrate, in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1, how to create an Asset Definition for an asset called “Tutorial Press Release” and then display Press Release assets via a Template.

First, let’s create the Flex Family for our tutorial content:


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Oracle WebCenter Sites + Real-time Decisions

Posted by Hemang Mehta on Friday, September 7, 2012 - 13:39 Web Experience Management FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Real-time Decisions, RTD, Web Experience Management, WEM

Oracle WebCenter Sites has a lot to offer when it comes to delivering targeted content. You can create a market visitor segments with a wide variety of flexibility; define what should be shown and where on the page it should be shown. You can further define these segments based on implicit and explicit criteria. Implicit criteria would include geo-location, time, click stream and search engine referrals for keywords. While explicit criteria includes anything the visitor has decided to share with you (age, gender, hobbies, etc..).

Armed with this information, you can deliver very...

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Oracle WebCenter Sites Asset Modeling: An Introduction

Posted by Somen De on Friday, June 1, 2012 - 20:07 Web Experience Management Basic Asset, CMS, Content Management Systems, FatWire, Flex Asset, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WebCenter, WEM

Welcome everyone, to an introductory blog about Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS) Asset Modeling.  Asset Modeling is the first major step in planning and designing the structure of a website using WCS.

When you sit down to analyze the requirements of a website, you should first compartmentalize all the different aspects and sections that will be necessary to fulfill the requirements.  This approach will eventually lead to the most efficient design and modeling of assets for the website.

For example, how many different kinds of webpages do we need? Can any subsections of webpages...

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Oracle WebCenter Sites Mobility vs. Responsive Web Design

Posted by Hemang Mehta on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 15:19 Web Experience Management, Development CMS, Content Management Systems, FatWire, Mobile, mobility server, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WebCenter, WEM

If you are a Oracle WebCenter Sites (FatWire Content Server) customer, I am sure one of the questions you ask yourself is: "Is my site optimized for mobile"? With different devices such as iPads, Android Tablets, iPhone, Android phones, BlackBerrys and non-touch web-enabled devices (yes there are few of them still out there!) all in different sizes, screen resolutions and browsers, it’s tough to ensure your end users have a great experience interacting with your site.  Here is where Responsive Web Design and packaged products such as Oracle WebCenter Sites Mobility Server come into play....

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Oracle WebCenter Sites for Mobile Devices

Posted by Somen De on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 23:36 Web Experience Management, Best Practices FatWire, linux, mobility server, ms admin, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WEM

Do you currently have websites built on the Oracle WebCenter Sites product suite? Would you like to leverage your existing WebCenter Sites install to support mobile devices? If you answered yes to both, we are happy to report that there is a great add-on product that will greatly simplify the process of supporting mobile devices.

Here at Function1, we are proud to be industry leaders in implementing websites with WebCenter Sites (formerly Fatwire).  In addition, we are excited to be partnering with Netomat...

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What can WEM do for you?

Posted by Hemang Mehta on Monday, October 17, 2011 - 17:26 Web Experience Management FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WCM, WebCenter

Web Content Management is not just about the web anymore, it’s also about managing your mobile, social, print and other emerging channels and ensuring a consistent experience across these channels. Because of this, the industry term has change from Web Content Management to Web Experience Management (WEM). Today’s WEM products focus not just on content but also help you ensure brand consistency across all these different channels, help you deliver better customer service, help you target the right audience for your new product or service launch, and help you stay...

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Publisher is up but it's sort of down.

Posted by Allan Mai on Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 01:54 Web Experience Management, Enterprise 2.0 Publisher, WebCenter

An instance of Publisher that I had a chance to touch recently went down with a puzzling exception and unknown cause. What better way to liven up the day of your friendly neighborhood portal than a vague and somewhat unexplained service error for a component of your deployment that has not given you any trouble since the day you installed it.

A few triage details:

  • Publisher Explorer is loading and navigating the folders is possible.


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A little research for your application to portlet(s) migration

Posted by Allan Mai on Friday, February 25, 2011 - 10:13 Development, Web Experience Management, Enterprise 2.0 Development, WebCenter

Being asked to research application frameworks and then reporting back is a pleasant deviation from the usual grind of production deadlines and code review due dates. So, when the opportunity came up to do some heads-down review on what is available for a client looking to convert a rather extensive JavaServer Faces (JSF) application into portal ready portlet components for WebCenter Interaction (WCI) - we were giddy. (Not Christmas Day snow...

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