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Enhance your WCS Dashboard Widgets with D3.js

Posted by David Chesebro on Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 10:24 Cool Tools Oracle WebCenter Sites, Customizations, contributor UI, widget, D3, Javascript, Development, 11g, 12c

As far back as I can remember, WebCenter Sites' Contributor UI dashboard widgets have been simple HTML tables full of text. Behold, D3.js, a JavaScript library that helps "bring your data to life" and easily create animated graphics. 

A good use case for this is the two dashboard widgets that come with Function1's LingoTek inside WebCenter Sites product (pictured below), which simply show some numbers about recent activity between WCS and Lingotek.

 

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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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