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>/...
WebCenter Sites allows you to customize the UI in many ways. Much of the UI is rendered using Dojo, but very little of WCS's Dojo APIs are documented. Here are a few simple Dojo code snippets that may be of use to you:
The WebCenter Sites developer guide describes how to display an "info" message (the green message pictured above), but you can also display warning (yellow) and error (red) messages:
var view = SitesApp.getActiveView(); // the active view (AKA the current tab)
view.info("OK Message."); // display...
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...
Applies To
OracleWebCenter Sites 11g (version 11.1.1.8.0)
Introduction
Often our flex assets have quite a few attributes which all end up on the same "Content" tab in the Contributor UI. The tab ends up being inconveniently long and the attributes are disorganized.
By customizing some UI elements, we can add new tabs to the content entry forms like in the image above (notice the new "Article Metadata" tab).
This blog post describes how to create these new tabs.
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In Webcenter Sites, every type of attribute is paired with a "native" editor provided by WCS which allows your entering the corresponding attribute value, even if you have not assigned an ad-hoc attribute editor to that attribute.
One of those attribute types is the "date". WCS provides a native editor which greatly simplifies your entering such an attribute's value in the right format (i.e. as expected by WCS and the underlying database) without much of a hassle.
This native editor comprises a text field where the...
With the latest release of WebCenter Sites 11gR1 (11.1.1.8.0 or "dot 8"), Oracle has introduced a bevy of new features strengthening the product's appeal to developers and marketers alike. The Function1 WEM Team is hard at work dissecting these new features and will be sharing with you our findings in a series of blog posts dedicated to covering these latest product enhancements.
The first in line for a "First Look" is the new integration point with Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC), the WebCenter Content Connector....
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