Setting Up a Development Environment in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Somen De on December 04, 2012 Web Experience Management, Development, Best Practices Best Practices, CSDT, Development

Function1 would like to take this opportunity to welcome Mike Field (co-author of this blog) to our Web Experience Management team.  Mike joins us from Metastratus Web Solutions and brings in-depth expertise in all aspects of Oracle WebCenter Sites.  Mike and I worked together on creating a development environment in Oracle WebCenter Sites for a client and decided to document the process.

As all of us enthusiastic developers know, setting up an initial development environment can sometimes be a tedious and painstaking process, regardless of the platform or software we use.   It can...

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Keeping your Splunk Deployment Server Organized

Posted by Kevin Chu on November 29, 2012 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices clientName, deploymentclient.conf, DeploymentServer

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The following post is for Splunk administrators that are already somewhat familiar with the Splunk Deployment Server, and the deployment of configuration app packages. The scenario: As a sysadmin, no matter how much effort goes into planning and organization, there is the possibility that one day you will no longer be able to easily group your servers simply by their hostnames or IP addresses. It may be the result of an emergency change ticket...

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How to use Vanity URLs in the GSF with WebCenter Sites

Posted by Tony Field on November 19, 2012 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Cool Tools, Development architecture, design, FatWire

WebCenter Sites does not support vanity URLs without customization.  The GSF provides a great vanity URL package that is flexible and easy to use, and this post will describe how to set it up.

Background

First, a little background.  Native URLs in WebCenter Sites all have to include a query string parameter called "pagename".  If the page is rendering an asset, "c" and "cid" are also included, and recently, other parameters like "childpagename" have crept into the standard set of parameters that are found in URLs.  This simply doesn't cut it...

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How to install both GSF and CSDT in WebCenter Sites

Posted by David Chesebro on November 14, 2012 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Cool Tools CSDT, FatWire, GSF

So you're building a new website in WebCenter Sites and you've decided to use CSDT (Content Server Developer Tools) and GSF (GST Site Foundation) to help make the development process as efficient as possible. The steps for installing GSF are quite simple. Copy a few files, click a few links, and you're done. Setting up CSDT is easy too -- once you get the hang of the differences between importing and exporting and what direction those commands sync your assets -- always think of it relative your WebCenter Sites installation: You import to WebCenter Sites, and export from...

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Organizing Your Splunk Shoe Rack (Defining Index Structures , Part 2 of 2 )

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on November 02, 2012 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices indexes, Splunk

In my previous post, I went through the thought process of defining a Splunk index structure.  There aspects of defining this structure were covered: data access control, data retention, and search performance.  Now that we understand the case for a well-defined index structure and the different factors that drive it, let's go through a use case.

An extremely bright and talented system administrator at the Panda Shoe Company (fictitious) wanted to work smarter and...

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