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Be Nice To Your Users ... And Your Lookups!

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 10:08 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Lookups, editor, User Friendly

Introduction 

In today's blog I will describe a method that we recently used at a customer site in order to solve a problem for a portion of their Splunk user base. This group does consist of frequent and avid users of Splunk, however they have a fairly low permission level and for the most part, are not the most tech-savvy. Their use of Splunk is limited to only one app and the pre-built dashboards within it. 

The requirement for this user group was as follows: They wanted a lookup table where they could enter some notes for specific product ids. They also wanted this...

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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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