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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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GSF 12 Is Finally Here!

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 11:46 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, FatWire, WebCenter Sites 12c, GSF, injection, bean, factory, context, navigation, service, controller, legacy, deprecated, core, Node, logger, slf4j, customization

GSF-12 is finally here! Yay!!!

This new version comprehends brand new features, but also a major reorganization of the entire project's codebase and several features getting deprecated in benefit of some of WebCenter Sites 12c's native features.

This is the first GSF release which embraces WCS 12c's features and rendering practices.
 
The main goals of this new release were:
  • Providing the means for clients out there already using GSF to reuse as much of their existing code as possible when upgrading from WCS 11.x to WCS 12c,
  • ...
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Fundamentals of WCS' Public Site Search Infrastructure

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:31 Web Experience Management Lucene, solr, CacheUpdater, Indexing, Oracle WebCenter Sites, asset event listener, SystemEvent, daemon, queue, analyzer, customization

Webcenter Sites ships with Apache Lucene.

Apache Lucene drives:

  • Asset-oriented search within the Contributor UI. This is automatically set up by default on an standard install. Users can enable / disable it on a per asset type basis as needed.
  • Asset-oriented search through a WCS-driven website's search box (or any equivalent feature). Developers must implement website-specific search logic; WCS provides a very basic API for this purpose.

In this post, we will focus on the fundamental aspects regarding Lucene-driven asset-oriented search in WCS-...

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Creating a Custom D3 Application with Visualizations in Splunk

Posted by Karthik Subramanian on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 09:27 Operational Intelligence D3, Splunk 6.4, Splunk App, Visualization, customization, Javascript

This is a slightly lengthy tutorial on creating your own D3 (or any other open source JavaScript library) visualization and app for use in Splunk. It assumes familiarity with creating Splunk Apps, as well as with JavaScript, and as such is at a more intermediate level: before creating this app, you might want to work on both your JavaScript skills and work on creating some Splunk visualizations with Splunk JS or Simple XML. You...

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How to Create Custom Content Tabs in the Contributor UI

Posted by Mike Field on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 09:37 Web Experience Management WCS, owcs, WebCenter Sites, 11g, 11.1.1.8.0, customization, contributor UI

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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