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Using External Content as native assets in WebCenter Sites 11.1.1.8

Posted by Sridhar Polishetty on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 17:14 Development, Web Experience Management FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Proxy Assets, WEM, YouTube Integration

Is your organization leveraging videos in YouTube and embedding into organizations website via Video/Media assets? Is your organization's press releases managed in different sites and displaying them in organization's website using iFrames? Is your organization's product knowledge base articles managed in external sites and displayed on a product page? Or perhaps your content contributors are recreating the content in Web Center Sites instead of just referring to the application service provider APIs?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then the new Oracle WebCenter Sites...

Altering WebCenter Sites 11g R1

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Friday, September 20, 2013 - 13:06 Development, Web Experience Management Development, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WEM

In my last article , I discussed modifying an existing toolbar button in WebCenter Sites 11g R1. That article was a good primer and now I’ll take the customization into something more applicable. I’ll step through creating a button tied to a simple onClick event and then expand to an ajax call to a CS Element.

These customization steps are valid from version 11 R1 to the latest 11.1.1.8.0. To digress a bit, I recommend you try these examples on the latest WCS version...

Meet Function1 at Oracle OpenWorld 2013

Posted by Hemang Mehta on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 14:11 Web Experience Management FatWire, OpenWorld, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WebCenter, WEM

Function1 is proud to be presenting 2 sessions at Oracle OpenWorld.

Displaying Enterprise Content in Oracle WebCenter Sites and WebCenter Portal [CON6876]

With the latest version of Oracle WebCenter, you can surface documents and Web content stored in Oracle WebCenter Content in both Oracle WebCenter Sites and Oracle WebCenter Portal. There are many integration options, from single images and rendered HTML to an entire Website. Attend this session to learn how to use them and which option is...

WebCenter Sites 11g R1 (11.1.1.8.0) First Look: The WebCenter Content Connector

Posted by Mitul Patel on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 14:44 Web Experience Management 11.1.1.8.0, 11gR1, FatWire, Integration, Oracle WebCenter Sites, UCM Connector, Web Experience Management, WebCenter Content, WEM

.8 is Here!

With the latest release of WebCenter Sites 11gR1 (11.1.1.8.0 or "dot 8"), Oracle has introduced a bevy of new features strengthening the product's appeal to developers and marketers alike. The Function1 WEM Team is hard at work dissecting these new features and will be sharing with you our findings in a series of blog posts dedicated to covering these latest product enhancements.

Introducing WebCenter Content Connector

The first in line for a "First Look" is the new integration point with Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC), the WebCenter Content Connector....

Publishing WCS content to multiple environments

Posted by Sridhar Polishetty on Friday, August 9, 2013 - 12:42 Development, Web Experience Management Customizing the Publishing, Customizing the Transporter, Delivery, Disaster Recovery, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Publishing, WEM

Many organizations want to keep content published to a live site and Disaster Recovery (DR) site on a real-time basis to ensure that latest content will be available in case of a disaster. Prior to the WebCenter Sites 11gR1BP1 Release, we needed to develop a workflow step action and approve the content to both destinations. This approach has its own problems, and required users to run publish two separate times – one for each environment.

But with 11gR1BP1, Oracle has provided the necessary publishing hookups, which enable developers to transport the content to multiple...

Realizing IT Compliance and High Perfomance Site Delivery with WebCenter Sites' Site Capture

Posted by Mitul Patel on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 13:09 Web Experience Management Crawlers, FatWire, high availability, IT Compliance, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Publishing, site archives, Site Capture, static site delivery, Web Experience Management, WEM

What is Site Capture?

Site Capture is a web-based application that integrates with WebCenter Sites to allow for the generation of a "snap-shot" of your dynamically published website. The application consists of the Site Capture Interface accessible by the "Camera icon" from the WEM admin screen. The Site Capture interface allows you to create and configure web crawlers used to "capture" the state of your website at various times. It does this by dynamically crawling and downloading site resources (html, js, images, css, etc.) from your site and writing them to the...

Customizing Toolbar Buttons in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 13:00 Web Experience Management Content Management System, FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, toolbar, UI Customize, Web Experience Management, WEM

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 similar to the example found in the 11gr1 bp1 UI Customizations Guide but bypasses a couple troublesome typos.

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Scripting old-style imports using CatalogMover's command line

Posted by Tony Field on Friday, May 10, 2013 - 15:26 Web Experience Management, Cool Tools, Development catalogmover, FatWire, Import, WEM

For over a decade, WebCenter Sites (FutureTense Content Server, OpenMarket Content Server, FatWire Content Server, etc.) used a text-based import format exclusively for bulk content import and export. The format was HTML-based and essentially exported a database table into a HTML table. Files were written to disk in folders alongside the HTML file.

A mini Swing Java app was created that allowed you to connect to the UI, and you then had a few tools you could use to list catalog data, select database rows to export, and import one or more files. Lightweight and very basic, it did...

How to Add Your Own DAO to the GSF Actions

Posted by David Chesebro on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 14:47 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Development FatWire, GSF, Web Experience Management, WebCenter Sites, WEM

GSF's ActionController and Action classes (in GSF version 11.x) can make building a website in WebCenter SItes much easier. If you're not familiar with the GSF and why you should consider using it, then check out Tony's blog post. If you're building a website in WebCenter Sites, then there's a good chance you're not making a small "Hello World" website. Big, complex websites require lots of assets, which in turn can require lots of code to load and manage all these assets. And plus there's usually...

Setting up a Simple Workflow in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Somen De on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 12:00 Web Experience Management, Best Practices Best Practices, Content Management Systems, FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WEM, workflow

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 workflow we will design is modest yet effective.

There are 2 main Roles of users:

ContentAuthor – creates/edits content
ContentApprover – approves content for publishing

Go ahead and create these 2 Roles, and...