Importance of Wrapper in WebCenter Sites11gR1
Download the full White Paper Importance of Wrapper in WebCenter Sites Page Caching is an important paradigms in WebCenter Sites. Page Caching is instrumental in achieving optimum performance. But Page...
View ArticleHow to implement a custom WCS flex filter
I recently was made aware of a document authored by Noël Jaffré of OCS/EMEA that describes very succinctly how to implement a custom flex filter class for use with WebCenter Sites flex assets. Rather...
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WebCenter Sites and back-end integration via front-end app and REST
In this blog article I’ll show how to use WebCenter Sites’ Insite Editing capabilities to drop a mondern simple JavaScript based application on a web page. This allows web editors to place, remove and...
View ArticleWebCenter Sites Sample Go-Live Checklist
To down load the Sample Checklist click: WebCenterSitesSampleGoLiveCheckList Prior to Oracle acquisition of FatWire, Support had a sample go-live checklist. The clients were expected to go through...
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Best Practice: WebCenter Sites Workflow Start Step
One of the key features of WebCenter Sites is its built-in workflow capabilities. While some see workflow as “onerous”, for auditing purposes it can’t be beat. For the majority of projects, we...
View ArticleShould Remote Satellite Server be used for Edge Caching?
Should Remote Satellite Server be used for Edge Caching? Lately, I have come across a few clients wanting to use WebCenter Sites Remote Satellite Server (rSS) as an edge cache – to cache content...
View ArticleIntegrating WebCenter Sites Community-Gadget with Social Networking
You can download this paper by clicking here Introduction Recently I have had a few inquiries regarding integrating WebCenter Sites 11gR1 with social sites. There are several questions about...
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How to plan for “Modern Marketing” architectures
The days of the company website being the most important online marketing asset are long over. No matter how sexy/compelling/brilliant a website is it now represents just a small fraction of a...
View ArticleOptimizing EhCache configuration for WebCenter Sites
In this blog article I would like to share my ideas and strategies that I have used on how to configure WebCenter Sites’ page, pagelet and inCache. I will discuss several trade-offs in configuring the...
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Concurrent Development Model for WebCenter Sites
1.0 Introduction Several times we are asked the question, “I need to develop multiple versions of the Site at the same time. I have completed phase one and version 1.0 of the website is live on...
View ArticleUsing CDN with WebCenter Sites 11gR1
1. Introduction WebCenter Sites has multiple layers of cache. Closest to the database server is the Result Set Cache, then Asset Cache, then WebCenter Sites Page Cache, and finally WebCenter Sites...
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A useful WC Sites “Tree” query
Sometimes WC Sites developers are required to efficiently obtain the hierarchical list of objects stored in the various “tree” tables as used by the product (e.g. LocaleTree, PublicationTree,...
View ArticleSetting-up Disaster Recovery for WebCenter Sites
Introduction Every time we are implementing WebCenter Sites, the question of disaster recovery (DR) always comes up. To setup disaster recovery for WebCenter Sites is fairly simple. Typically,...
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A pattern for managing segments across Oracle apps
Background A large number of Oracle and 3rd party CX applications include segmentation as a key part of their feature set. Trouble is, most of these implementations are siloed and proprietary. Further...
View ArticleWhy you (generally) should NOT pass cid to a WebCenter Sites left navigation
Those new to WebCenter Sites may not fully grasp the subtlety of the coding refinement described in this article. Further, from a UNIT TESTING point of view, both solutions presented work “equally...
View ArticleHow to Build a Simple OR Searchstate
While searchstates are powerful, it is not obvious how to best implement simple things like create an OR searchstate (i.e. gluing two searchstate lists together with a distinct resultset and common...
View ArticleHow to Customize Pre and PostUpdate to work with DASH GUI
PreUpdate and PostUpdate are standard XML elements that are executed during creating and updating assets. Yet neither have an obvious way of determining if they are being invoked from the Advanced...
View ArticleHow to Personalize ANY Assetlist
Forcing editors to manually create Recommendation lists can be painful, since more often than not it would be easier to use existing Named Associations or use Searchstates (or any other tags that...
View ArticleHow to Build a JSP Attribute Editor
While WebCenter Sites comes with several samples of attribute editors (for the Advanced Interface), all of them are written using XML elements rather than as JSP elements. Studying the XML code doesn’t...
View ArticleRead Only User in WebCenter Sites
ReadOnly User in WebCenter Sites Recently, I was at a client, and they had a requirement to create a ReadOnly User for WebCenter Sites. By default, WebCenter Sites does not have a ReadOnly user....
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