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No Content Server Explorer for Mac OS? No Problem!

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 09:17 Cool Tools, Development, Web Experience Management CSExplorer, WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, JSK, WebCenter Oracle Sites, Oracle, Eclipse, Cool Tools, WebCenter Sites Developer Tools

After years of owning a PC and taking my environment setup for granted, I landed with a Mac OS that has proven to be a bit of a challenge when it comes to spinning up the 11g JSK. Among the drawbacks is the lack of a Content Server Explorer (CS-Explorer) as the JSK stores it as an executable.

The lack of a Mac installer for the explorer within the JSK is not drastic. Technically, miracles can happen - or close enough - when you have an Intel processor and the help of a third-party tool. However, today I have decided to take a completely different route. Come to think of it, the...

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Maximizing Your Oracle WebCenter Sites Content Management Training - PART II

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 10:59 Web Experience Management WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Training, Project Planning, Class, Education

Welcome to the second installment of Maximizing your WebCenter Sites Training. In the first article, I outlined a number of recommendations that focused on getting the most out of User, Developer, and Administrative CMS training.  It is critical that attendees know how to hit-the-ground-running, are engaged in system adoptance, and that all groups push towards a successful rollout. In this post, we'll focus on scheduling as it applies to an Enterprise Content Management implementation.

Carefully...

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Does Your WebCenter Sites Deployment Need a Health Check?

Posted by Rick Ptasznik on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 11:18 Web Experience Management Oracle, WebCenter Sites, WCS, Health Checks, Assessments, performance

Just as you and I (should) go to the doctor regularly for checkups, major IT systems like WebCenter Sites should also get an occasional health check to ensure that they are operating at peak efficiency. As a complicated enterprise product, there are many potential issues that can impact WebCenter Sites’ performance, uptime, and ease of use. Some issues result from misconfigured settings, or problems that develop over time, including: performance issues due to memory usage, disk space, and database size.

If your environments are experiencing unexpected downtimes and users (or...

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Join Function1 at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Friday, September 29, 2017 - 14:06 Function1, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Sites, WCS, Oracle OpenWorld, OOW, OOW17

We're in San Francisco this week for Oracle OpenWorld (#OOW17)! While we are looking forward to attending as many of the 2,500 sessions, demos, and hands-on labs offered, we're especially excited about one presentation in particular...

Function1 Vice President (and respected leader in the Oracle WebCenter Sites architecture sphere), Tony Field, is teaming up with Oracle's Sripathy Rao for a discussion on Oracle WebCenter Sites and Oracle Cloud. If you're still building out your...

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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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Content & Commerce: The Reese's Standard

Posted by Eric Brengle on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 12:57 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle Commerce, WCS

Content & Commerce: The Chocolate and Peanut Butter

There are certain things in this world that are just meant to be together.  Back in college, I had a professor named Wayne Jackson who summed up a Sony/Phillips platform merger as the “Reese’s Standard.” Both Sony and Philips had brilliant standalone products but the real magic happened when you put them together. He’d preach, “On the one hand, you had Sony; the chocolate. And then over here you had Phillips; the peanut butter. Now bring those two sides together and you have yourself a Reese’s.”

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UI Customizations with Oracle JET in Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c

Posted by Mike Field on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 10:46 Development WebCenter, dojo, jet, Oracle JET, requirejs, 12c, WCS, WebCenter Sites

Before You Begin

This blog assumes that you're familiar with Oracle JET, its custom modules, and overriding the default path/suffix configuration for JET modules so that you can include them as assets in your WebCenter Sites implementation. Otherwise, you may want to begin by reading this blog: Creating Oracle JET Modules as Assets in Oracle WebCenter Sites.

Overview

WCS 11g’s Admin and Contributor UIs are built with a version of Dojo that does...
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Oracle WebCenter Sites and Siteminder

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 10:39 Data Security, Development, Web Experience Management WCS, WEM, WebCenter Sites, Siteminder, Vanity URL Pattern, 11g

We are far from the days when logging in was as easily implemented as a username, password, and cgi script in between your user’s anonymous and logged-in states. Today’s world is ruled by powerful web access management softwares that not only securely keep intruders from accessing your most secure pages but also allows for a user management system hooked up to your LDAP environment. Among them: HP’s IceWall SSO, IAM (Identity and Access Management), and CA Siteminder. Let’s focus on the latter.

 

Per their website, CA Siteminder promises to...

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Fragment API in Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c - A Better Way to Render

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 08:56 Web Experience Management Fragment API, WCS, elements, templates, site entries

The Fragment API was introduced in WebCenter Sites 12c (WCS) to better handle how the HTML markup blocks are included on a web page.  Working alongside the new Controller infrastructure in 12c, the Fragment API provides a Java API and a tag library that works in conjunction to allow for separation between business logic around generating the HTML block versus rendering these blocks. 

The Fragment API is used in lieu of the ‘render’ JSP or XML tags to render the resultant pagelet of a template, element or site entry.  An example will be...

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