Home – Posts tagged "Oracle WebCenter Sites"
Customizing Toolbar Buttons in Oracle WebCenter Sites
May 16, 2013 —
It has never been easier to customize the WebCenter Sites toolbar, menus, search and dashboard with the latest changes in 11g BP1. To demonstrate one aspect, I’ll quickly explore adding a bookmark toolbar button. To be more specific the button will only be active in the Web mode for an avisports article asset. This is →
Categories: Web Experience Management
Setting up a Simple Workflow in Oracle WebCenter Sites
March 26, 2013 —
Welcome fellow enthusiasts of Oracle WebCenter Sites, to an introductory blog about how to set up a simple workflow! As we all know, workflow is an integral aspect of any web content management system, and thus creating an efficient workflow is paramount to the overall success of the system and it’s business owners. The particular →
Categories: Best Practices, Web Experience Management
Create a Simple ‘Contact Us’ Form with GSF
February 15, 2013 —
If you’re familiar with the GSF, then you already know how helpful it is for developing basic JSP Templates and how it lets you do the same work as before, except with a lot fewer lines of code. But what about another type of page that most sites need? I am, of course, talking about →
WEM Distilled
February 11, 2013 —
In the world of information technology the acronyms are a plenty and their translations are often debated and overloaded. So what is WEM you ask? Well, WEM is short for West Edmonton Mall located in the glorious province of Alberta Canada OR a line of vintage guitar amplifiers depending how you structured your Google search…I’m →
Categories: Web Experience Management
WebCenter Sites CSDT tip: Recommended Order of @ALL_ASSETS for Error-free Imports
January 18, 2013 —
As anyone who has worked with Oracle WebCenter Sites “Content Server Development Tools” (CSDT) already knows, the import process can get a little “tricky”, especially when trying to import “@ALL_ASSETS”. Regardless if you’re operating from the command line or via Eclipse’s CSDT plug-in, there are inevitable errors that occur because of the complexity of certain →
CSDT Command throwing HTTP 401 Error
January 4, 2013 —
Overview: The error “Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL” occurs when running CSDT commands from the command-line. Symptom: If you’re using Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 BP1, the following error will occur when running CSDT commands from the command-line: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://<www.mydomain.com>/cs/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/PrologActions /Publish/csdt/CSDTService&command=listds&username=fwadmin&password=mypwd&includeDeps=true &idMapping=true&resources=%40SITE&datastore=myds The 401 error occurs with ANY CSDT command →
Categories: Development, Web Experience Management
Setting Up a Development Environment in Oracle WebCenter Sites
December 4, 2012 —
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 →
How to use Vanity URLs in the GSF with WebCenter Sites
November 19, 2012 —
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 →
How to install both GSF and CSDT in WebCenter Sites
November 14, 2012 —
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 →
The How-To Of Error Messages
October 19, 2012 —
Have you had one of those moments when you wonder what an error message meant? I’ve had one of those “ah ha” moments plenty of times. A “ah ha” followed by a wondrous “hmmm”. The latter comes from realizing that the error message just displayed does not make any sense. For instance: I check out →