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The Universality of Devices

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 09:59 Best Practices, Development, Function1, Web Experience Management WCS, sites, WebCenter Sites, device, device group, Vanity URL

Device detection is handled smartly within Oracle WebCenter Sites, but unfortunately there is no clear wiggle room if one wants to not follow Oracle’s recommendation when it comes to mobile support. The platform sniffs out if you are on a desktop or any other mobile device listed in the Device Repository (simple xml file that contains properties for each device that an application wants to differentiate upon). You might think: “Amazing! And WCS already has a file listing relevant default/common devices! I have less work to do.” For a few minutes, you are as happy can be. Until you load...

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Implementing CKEditor Customizations in Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c

Posted by Somen De on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 10:57 Development, Web Experience Management CKeditor, sites, Oracle, customization, 12c, WebCenter Sites

As many WebCenter Sites developers already know, the flexibility of the CKEditor attribute editor allows us to apply customizations to it. Actually, implementing these customizations isn't always the easiest task. For the newest 12c version, Oracle's official documentation can, unfortunately, be quite confusing.

To help clarify how to implement CKEditor customizations in 12c, this blog will outline simple instructions on how to customize the CKEditor toolbar.

Say for instance that we have an attribute called "Abstract," and it needs a basic, simplified CKEditor as its...

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Those (tricky?) "date" attributes in Webcenter Sites 11.1.1.8.0

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Monday, October 6, 2014 - 12:21 Web Experience Management WebCenter, sites, attribute, type, editor, date, 11.1.1.8.0, calendar, timezone, widget, timestamp

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...

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