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Maximizing Your WebCenter Sites Training

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 08:51 Best Practices, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Training, best practice, FatWire, Education, Courses

If you’re planning a future Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS) rollout, developing your first site, or managing website content within WCS, effective and timely training is a key factor towards your success and overall system adoption. Reducing uncertainty and clarifying expectations increases motivation and aligns vision with execution. All users, including casual content contributors and approvers working within intuitive interfaces, will benefit from exposure to the new system and a clear outline of their roles and responsibilities.

Throughout my career, I’ve launched dozens of WCS...

GSF 12 Is Finally Here!

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 11:46 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, FatWire, WebCenter Sites 12c, GSF, injection, bean, factory, context, navigation, service, controller, legacy, deprecated, core, Node, logger, slf4j, customization

GSF-12 is finally here! Yay!!!

This new version comprehends brand new features, but also a major reorganization of the entire project's codebase and several features getting deprecated in benefit of some of WebCenter Sites 12c's native features.

This is the first GSF release which embraces WCS 12c's features and rendering practices.

The main goals of this new release were:

Providing the means for clients out there already using GSF to reuse as much of their existing code as possible when upgrading from WCS 11.x to WCS 12c,
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Stop Press: Publishing Stopped With NullPointerException

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - 09:56 Web Experience Management FatWire, owcs, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Publishing, Error, NullPointerExecption

“Stop Press” or “Stop The Presses” is a term used in the print media industry, it is used when the need to change content arises during or just before or during printing to stop the printing press. This unfortunately places publishing of all content on hold until it is resolved. With the digital media age, this term has somewhat become obsolete as more and more content is consumed, published and delivered digitally typically through Content Management Systems such as Oracle’s WebCenter Sites.

Though the need to change content does not stop...

UID UID, where art thou my UID

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 09:33 Web Experience Management owcs, WCS, FatWire, WebCenter Sites, WSDT, Error, WebCenter Sites Developer Tools, CSDT, com.fatwire.cs.core.realtime.DataException, IDMap, IDMap did not contain uid for remote id

My Import for a UID! No, for ‘twas not so simple. To understand this story we must begin a few versions ago when a tool now known as WebCenter Sites Developer Tools (WSDT) was introduced to finally allow I.T. teams to manage their WebCenter Sites Artifacts within a source code repository such as GIT, BitBucket or SVN. These artifacts were not just code related, but also content related.

In addition to enabling the creation of local environments for Developers to truly allow them to encapsulate their work, this tool also opened new avenues for content migration and allowed I.T....

CSDT Tips

Posted by Somen De on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 10:23 Best Practices, Web Experience Management owcs, WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Sites, CSDT, Best Practices, FatWire, Import, Export

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...

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

Posted by Jesty Thomas on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 08:48 Web Experience Management WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, 11.1.1.8.0, Content Management, contributor UI, Customizations, Left navigation pane, FatWire, tree, SitePlanTree, 11gR1, dojo, dijit

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>/...


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              OWCS 11.1.1.8 Missing Nodes in Site Plan Tree
            
            
              Posted by Aiiaz Khan
              on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 10:06
              Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, Oracle WebCenter Sites, FatWire, Page Asset, SitePlanTree, Missing Node
              
            
                
                
          
          
           
            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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              Installing Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c
            
            
              Posted by Michael Crawford
              on Friday, October 23, 2015 - 23:58
              Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, 12c, WCS, FatWire, Install, Tutorial
              
            
                
                
          
          
           
            The following tutorial, by Function1's Michael Crawford, takes you step by step through the process of installing WebCenter Sites 12c from scratch, including installing Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Infrastructure, and then Sites itself. You will be guided through each step with screenshots of the entire process.
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              How to create a modal window in WebCenter Sites Contributor UI (11.1.1.8)
            
            
              Posted by Jesty Thomas
              on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 09:09
              Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, WebCenter Sites, contributor UI, Oracle WebCenter Sites, FatWire, custom menu, dialog, floatingdialog, modal
              
            
                
                
          
          
           
            If you have been working on WCS for a while, you have probably run into situations where you need to customize the contributor UI. WCS has provided some hooks for this, but often the documentation is too basic and requires more research and reverse engineering.
In an effort to shed some light into UI customization, at Function1 we have authored a series of UI customization blogs: How to build custom attribute editors in WebCenter Sites 11.1.1.8,...
          
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              Creating a Custom Flex Filter in WebCenter Sites
            
            
              Posted by Mitul Patel
              on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 11:57
              Web Experience Management WebCenter Sites, FatWire, Flex Filter, Custom Flex Filter
              
            
                
                
          
          
           
            WebCenter Sites Flex Filters provide a natural mechanism to do some post asset-save processing.  Out of the box, Oracle provides the following 4 Flex Filters: Doc-Type, Thumbnail Creator, Field Copier, and Document Transformation. Generally, these filters can be configured to take an input value from an asset and then do some processing on it resulting in something new. For example, a blob valued attribute named ImageFile can be used as input into the Thumbnail Creator to create a derived attribute containing a thumbnail rendition of the...
          
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