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Release Notes
10g Release 1 (10.2.0.0.1) for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)
B31707-02
September 2006
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Note: This document is accurate at the time of publication. Oracle will update the documentation periodically after the software release. You can access the latest information and additions to these release notes on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at: |
This document provides release note information for Oracle Content Database 10g Release 1 (10.2.0.0.1) (Oracle Content DB). This document contains the following topics:
Oracle Content Database (Oracle Content DB) is the file and content management component of the Oracle Database. Using Oracle Content DB, users can share and collaborate on files, lock files, e-mail links to files, and classify content using categories. In addition, Oracle Content DB provides these features:
Web clients designed to make file management simpler and easier. Files and folders are displayed in an easily navigatable tree view.
Windows access through an integrated Oracle Drive desktop client. Oracle Drive enables you to access Oracle Content DB as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer, as well as from any Windows application's Open and Save As dialogs.
Offline, synchronization and backup capabilities. When you are disconnected from the network, Oracle Drive permits you to view and edit documents that you have recently accessed or that you have marked as being available offline. When you reconnect to the network, Oracle Drive re-synchronizes your offline edits. Oracle Drive also permits you to regularly back up files on your local machine to the server.
Security by allowing users to specify who can access any file, folder, or Library you manage.
Link management by allowing users to create, copy, and e-mail links to files and folders in Oracle Content DB folders to which they have access.
Increased productivity by making information throughout the enterprise easier to find, manage, and share.
Reduced risk through better control of information and establishment of consistent information policies and processes.
Documentation for end-users. Oracle Content DB comes with a New User Orientation, a set of customizable help pages that users can access from the Oracle Content DB launch page. These pages provide valuable information, such as how to sign on to the Web client and how to get started with Oracle Drive, that can help new users get started with Oracle Content DB. The New User Orientation is only available in English.
Oracle Content DB ships with Web services that:
Support integration, automation, and functional extension
Are J2EE and .Net compatible
Provide support for file management, records management, searching, versioning, workflow, session management, virus scanning, and other functions
Oracle Content DB provides the following features for file and document management:
Folder and file-level security
Fine-grained permissions
Role-based access control
Group access management
Multiple Sites per Oracle Content DB instance
File check-in/check-out
Policy-based versioning with a folder-by-folder policy, automatic or manual application, maximum version cutoff, and selectable version naming
Policy-based Category management (extended metadata) with a folder-by-folder policy, automatic or manual application, hierarchical categories, and default and/or enforced attributes
Integrated antivirus protection (partner solution required)
Ability to create and store links to files and folders
Oracle Content DB provides mechanisms to associate workflows with specific folders. These workflows:
Can elicit responses by a set of responders serially or in parallel
Can control the deleting, copying, moving, checking in, and checking out of documents by starting workflow requests that require approval
Can be configured to launch workflow requests when documents are uploaded or read
Oracle Content DB also supports custom workflows through Oracle BPEL Process Manager, an Oracle product that provides a framework for easily designing, deploying, monitoring, and administering processes based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standards. These custom workflows:
Can be used to automate a wide range of business processes
Can be registered with Oracle Content DB so that users can define workflow-based folder policies
Can invoke the Oracle Content DB Web services to perform an extensive set of actions
Can be configured to get triggered upon any of the operations mentioned in the previous section.
This section describes known limitations and workarounds, if applicable, for Oracle Content DB.
Oracle Web Cache clustering is not certified with Oracle Content DB. Additional information about using Oracle Content DB in a multiple middle tier environment is available in the white paper "Best Practices for Configuring Oracle Content Database Middle Tiers for Scalability and High Availability". You can find this white paper on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
The Oracle Content DB command-line tools are not currently available for this release. Check the Oracle Content DB page on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products /contentdb/ for information about the future availability of these tools.
Due to security concerns, HTTP Basic Authentication over HTTP has been disabled. If you need HTTP Basic Authentication, you must use HTTPS. However, HTTP Digest Authentication over HTTP is available.
The Oracle Content DB Launch page includes a link to the New User Orientation. This content is available only in English. On the Launch page, the link to the New User Orientation appears in English even for non-English locales.
Oracle recommends that you do not use e-mail addresses as nicknames for users in a multi-Site implementation. Using e-mail addresses as nicknames for users in a multi-Site instance can cause problems in some cases, in particular with certain protocols for the non-default Site. This problem tends to affect WebDAV and FTP access to the Site.
Custom workflows cannot be registered for Sites that correspond to non-default realms. This is because BPEL does not support multiple Oracle Internet Directory realms.
Oracle Content DB requires an OracleAS Infrastructure version 10.1.4.0.1 or 10.1.2.0.2, as well as an Oracle Database version 10.2.0.2 or 10.1.0.5.
For the most up-to-date certification information for Oracle Content DB, Oracle Records DB, and Oracle Drive, refer to OracleMetaLink at:
http://metalink.oracle.com
The following table describes the Globalization issues for Oracle Content DB.
Table 1 Globalization Issues in Oracle Content DB
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
|---|---|---|
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Cannot use FTP or WebDAV with multibyte or high ASCII user names and passwords. Users with multibyte or high ASCII user names and passwords cannot sign on to Oracle Content DB using FTP or WebDAV. |
Do not create user names or passwords that contain multibyte or high ASCII characters. |
4340204 |
The following table describes the Oracle Content DB known issues.
Table 2 Known Issues in Oracle Content DB
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
|---|---|---|
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When loading the Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository for Oracle Portal, the runRepca.bat file fails with errors in the repca and portal log files. |
Include the directory path in the
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5463913 |
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Microsoft Installer (MSI) Version 3.0 is required to install Oracle Drive 10.2.x. If end users do not have MSI 3.0, they may see the error: "Incorrect command line parameters Windows Installer V 2.00.2600.1183 Copyright (c) 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." |
If your end users do not have Microsoft Installer 3.0, they should install it on their client machines from: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884016 |
5443255 |
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Running the setup.exe file with the -prereqChecker option will hang after checking for ORACLE_BASE at 80%. |
Manually stop the installer. |
5503066 |
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Verity filters are not available. Installing against Solaris x86 and Solaris x86 64 bit database is not supported. This applies to all Oracle Content DB platforms. |
Install Oracle Content DB against an Oracle Database running on a platform where verity filters are supported. |
5503009 |
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Uploading large files may intermittently throw a "No response from application web server" error: This occurs in cases where the middle tier and database are some distance apart, which can cause timeouts for responses. |
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5494279 |
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Whenever a user or an agent performs a Create Folder, Move or Delete or Empty Trash operation, a database row lock on one or more of the configurations, such as Quota, Record, Audit, Ad-hoc category, Workflow, Versioning, Security will limit concurrent operations. |
If you see row lock contention on the ODM_%CONFIGURATION tables, identify the folders, libraries, containers, or domains which have signficant Create Folder, Move or Delete or Empty Trash operations being performed on the objects anywhere in their folder hierarchy. When possible, separate these folders or libraries so that they have different configurations. To do so, modify their configurations so that they do not inherit from a mutual parent. |
5482864 |
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Customers installing multiple middle tiers must apply a patch for Oracle Web Services to perform load balancing. Due to the way that Oracle Web Services authenticates, all Oracle Web Services traffic will route to a single middle tier if the patch is not applied, limiting scalability. |
None |
5457709 |
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When the user enters the incorrect password for the sys user, the installer sends an error regarding the database version. |
Reenter the correct password for the sys user. |
5447846 |
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If the Login Name attribute is set to mail in the Directory Configuration, and the Email Address attribute of the orcladmin user is changed to something other than orcladmin, the Oracle Content DB configuration will fail. |
Do not change the orcladmin user's |
5440245 |
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Retry option of failed Oracle Content DB installation does not work. Do not retry |
Follow deinstall instructions in the Oracle Content Database Installation Guide and reinstall. |
5440818 |
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The Oracle Content DB Configuration Assistant fails in a RAC environment against 10.1.0.5 database if the max_commit_propagation_delay parameter is set to a high value. |
Uninstall the Oracle Content DB middle tier. Set the |
5414303 |
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Users cannot use the Cancel button when uploading large files. Instead of the upload canceling, the files upload progress completes, and returns to the main page |
None |
5413525 |
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Users cannot upload files larger than 2GB using the Web UI. |
Use FTP or Oracle Drive to upload files greater than 2GB. Oracle Drive will only load files up to 4GB, and you must bypass Oracle Webcache. |
5413185 |
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The "Need Help Getting Started" section in the New User Orientation page is only available in English. |
Translations are not currently available. |
5408541 |
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Customers with Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000, that are trying to log in to a Oracle Content DB instance running on SSL on a single box setup (both infrastructure and middle tier on the same machine), will be unable to log in to Oracle Content DB. This does not occurfor users with Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP. |
None |
5404213 |
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The Oracle Content DB Configuration Assistant fails during Node startup if the NLS_LANG parameter is set to an invalid value. |
Unset NLS_LANG before installing Content DB and/or before starting the Nodes. The NLS_LANG parameter is not used, so it can be unset. |
5403340 |
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Digest authentication fails in some load balancing scenarios. The client must return the nonce challenge to the same OC4J instance that issued it. Load balancing scenarios where client requests are not always handled by the same OC4J instance may fail. |
Configure the load balancer so that all requests from the same client session are handled by the same OC4J instance. Using cookie based persistence is one way of doing so. |
5392075 |
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The Oracle Content DB silent installation does not check for database parameters. |
The user must verify that all the database parameters are set properly. |
5384233 |
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Users cannot install the Oracle Content DB middle tier even if they are members of the required Oracle Internet Directory groups. |
You must install as |
5368957 |
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Folders containing more than 1000 documents are slow in opening through WebDAV or the Web Client. |
For best performance:
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5368542 |
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After creating and enabling a new Site in Oracle Content DB, users belonging to the new Site are not able to login. |
Bounce the OC4J_Content and OC4J_RM instances on each Oracle Content DB middle tier after creating and enabling a new Site in Oracle Content DB. |
5362848 |
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After installing Oracle Content DB, you will find the following exceptions in the file: Starting InstallLyke... java.sql.SQLException: ORA-04043: object LYKE_IDXTYPE_IM does not exist... Finished InstallLyke These are expected exceptions because the script first deletes the old objects before creating to assure the application uses only the most up-to-date objects. |
None. This is expected behavior. |
5355010 |
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When users log in to the Web client for the first time (after installation is completed), and tries to enable the personal library, they may receive an "Unexpected error" message when they click on HOME. |
Log out and log in again to the Web client. |
5352603 |
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The system files are listed on the My Recent Files view. Any help link or other system files you access will show up in the My Recent Files View. |
None |
5091601 |
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The Database Configuration Assisstant fails occassionally when installing the infrastructure database or any other database. |
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5085955 |
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The non-default realm orcladmin user cannot log in through Webdav. |
Reset the Oracle Internet Directory password before you attempt logging into Oracle Content DB through WebDAV |
4677308 |
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Users cannot sign on to a new Oracle Content Database instance that is using an upgraded Oracle Internet Directory. This problem occurs because of insufficient access rights set in the upgraded Oracle Internet Directory instance. |
Grant browse access to Everyone on the user search base and group search base containers for each realm in Oracle Internet Directory. This needs to be done only for Follow these steps to grant browse access:
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4499315 |
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Searches default to a folder-restricted search. A folder-restricted search limits the results of the search to files and folders which reside under the specified folder restriction. A folder-restricted search can take longer to process than an unrestricted search. An unrestricted search will return files and folders which can be located anywhere within Oracle Content DB. By default, all searches are performed as a folder-restricted search. If a folder restriction is not specified for the search, a default folder restriction of the top level folder for the Site is used. |
An option can be specified in the Web services options = new NamedValue[]
{ new NamedValue(Options.FOLDER_RESTRICT_TO_DOMAIN,Boolean.FALSE) };
result = searchManager.search(sexpr, options, null);
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4662702 |
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The Quota Administrator can set default Library quota to a value greater than the Site quota. The Site quota, specified in the Application Server Control is for advisory purposes only and does not restrict the quota allocated to the libraries. However, if the sum of the quota consumed in the Site exceeds 95% of the site quota, notification is sent to the Site administrator. |
None |
4258883 |
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The Web Client user interface does not report results for user search if there are too many results. The Web Client may report that there are no users matching a search criteria if the number of matches exceeds about 200. |
Narrow your search criteria. |
4694113 |
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User unable to login after backup or recovery of the database. After a backup or recovery of the database, Oracle Content DB can enter an inconsistent state. In this state, Oracle Content DB generates IndexOutOfBoundsException errors in the logs. This can prevent users from logging into Oracle Content DB. |
The administrator should restart all OPMN processes on the middle tier after a database backup or recovery, or when the logs show IndexOutOfBoundsException errors. |
4635557 |
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BPEL Worklist URL specified in Oracle Application Server Control must begin with http://. BPEL Worklist URL is specified by an administrator in Oracle Application Server Control. If this URL is present, BPEL workflow requests appear as links on the reports pages. If the specified URL is not absolute (if it does not begin with |
To avoid this problem, the administrator must specify absolute URLs to Oracle Application Server Control, such as |
4674742 |
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Drag-and-drop not supported from client computer to the Oracle Content DB Web client. The user cannot drag a file or folder from the client operating system and drop it into the Oracle Content DB Web client. The reverse is also not possible. The symptom end users will see is that the file is opened in the browser. |
Users should not drag-and-drop content to or from the Oracle Content DB Web client. Use the Upload and Download commands in the Oracle Content DB Web client to copy files. |
4450711 |
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Unable to launch request dialog after a request is approved or rejected but the Oracle Content DB Web client is not refreshed. On My Requests page, if there are multiple pending requests and the user approves or rejects a request (by clicking the request link and clicking Approve or Reject), the next click on a request link may not launch the request dialog until the table is refreshed. This is because the workflow actions are asynchronous: a request is sent to the workflow engine to process on clicking Approve or Reject and the result is returned after a delay. Because of this, the Oracle Content DB Web client and back-end data goes out of sync, which results in an error when clicking on the link. |
Refresh the page by selecting View > Refresh or by pressing F5. |
4570491 |
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Zero-byte office documents do not open correctly. Zero-byte Microsoft Office documents do not open correctly. Instead, the OracleAS Single Sign-On page opens. Internet Explorer sends two GET requests when zero byte Microsoft Office documents are opened. The second request does not include session state or authentication information, so the server tries to prompt for authentication. |
See the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 185978 for more information. |
4360445 |
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On Windows 2000 clients, Download in Internet Explorer opens a document instead of downloading it to local file system. On Windows 2000, The Download menu item in the Oracle Content DB Web client does not work. On Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer, once a document has been opened in the Oracle Content DB Web client, selecting the Download menu item displays the document in the browser instead of saving it to the file system. |
Clear Internet Explorer's cache. |
4562512 |
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Overwriting a link overwrites the target instead of the link. When uploading a file to the server through a WebDAV client (such as Oracle Drive), if a link exists with the same name, the target of the link is overwritten instead of the link itself. |
Delete the link before uploading the new file. |
4588268 |
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Opening Microsoft Excel 2000 files with long file names that include multiple-byte characters opens read only. Opening Microsoft Excel 2000 files with long file names that include multiple-byte characters displays the error " |
Clear Internet Explorer's cache. |
4589741 |
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When the client is creating a URL, any + character in URL is not decoded. Any + characters in the file name section of a URL are not treated as spaces. This is often a problem for clients that generate URLs with java.net.URLEncoder, which represents space characters as + characters. |
Spaces must be represented as |
4642256 |
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Multiple-byte characters in requests to restore items from the Archive appear as question marks. This is related to the e-mail messages sent as a request for restore archives. All the multiple-byte characters in these notifications are replaced with question marks. |
None |
4555116 |
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Some variables in workflow e-mail notifications are not substituted properly. In some cases, the workflow notification e-mails have some information that is still in the form of unsubstituted variables. This is specific to the following variables - &SUBJECT, &MAILTO and &HISTORY. |
Use SQL*Plus to recompile the existing sqlplus workflow_schema/workflow_password@tns_alias $ORACLE_HOME/wf/sql/wfmlrb.pls The workflow schema password is typically stored in Oracle Internet Directory. Use the following steps to retrieve the password:
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4553317 |
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Some operations performed at the Site level run asynchronously and can take a significant amount of time to complete. If you set security grants at the Site level or try to delete containers, the operation does not execute immediately. The operation can take some time to propagate down the folder hierarchy. For example, if you assign a role to a user at the Site level, it will take some time before the user has obtained the role in a folder residing several levels deep in the hierarchy. |
As a best practice, assign roles at the Site level early in the deployment of a new system so the assignment is faster. Additionally, expect that there may be a delay before Administrator operations are completed, and watch the logs to confirm that the actions are taking place. |
4435775 |
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Nodes sometimes try to use the same port if there are multiple middle tiers on the same host computer. This is restricted to a situation where you have multiple Oracle Content DB middle tiers on the same host computer. In some cases, the regular Node fails to start in one or more of the middle tier instances. The log file indicates the following error: "Address in use" |
Try to start the middle tiers in a sequential manner. Start each middle tier five minutes after starting the previous tier. If that does not solve the problem, use the following steps to resolve the issue:
If there are more than two middle tiers, repeat the steps using a different range of port numbers. |
4476352 |
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With virus scanning turned on, opening a very large file through the Oracle Content DB Web client can cause errors. A file is scanned synchronously for any viruses before downloading to the user's computer. For a very large file, this can take a long time and can cause the following errors to occur:
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Use FTP to download the file. |
4371159 |
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Storing an .eml file in Oracle Content DB cannot be searched by its content. Oracle Content DB does not parse |
Search |
4663714 |
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When using Cute Pro FTP Client to upload a file in the same directory as a link with the same name, the file overwrites the link. The Cute Pro FTP client deletes the link before writing the file. |
Do not use the Cute Pro FTP client to upload files. |
4608216 |
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Request for Archive Restore notification messages are not translated. E-mails that are generated and sent to the administrators are not translated to the recipient's preferred language. |
None |
4555129 |
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Unable to extract files from a zip file that contains files with names not in UTF-8 encoded format. This is a known issue in Java unzip implementation. Java expects that all file names in zip files be encoded in UTF-8 format. |
None |
4323427 |
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Copying a file from your local drive to the server over Web Folders does not retain the Last Modified Date. |
Use the Oracle Drive 10.2 client as it conforms to Windows standards for setting the Modified Date and the Created Date. |
4119519 |
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When the Symantec Anti Virus Scan Engine (SAVSE) server is down, users will get errors when trying to edit a document or will still be allowed to scan a document on demand, falsely. When the SAVSE server is down, users will get an error when trying to edit a document using Web Folders, Oracle Drive, or through Oracle Content DB Web client Edit in Place. Users will also still be able to scan a document on demand through its document properties as the scanning button is still enabled. |
When the Restart SAVSE. |
4716460 |
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AXIS converts Date objects to Calendar objects. When accessing date values over Web services using AXIS, the Date objects are converted into Calendar objects. However, when accessing these same values locally, they remain Date objects. |
When AXIS encounters a Converting Date objects into Calendar objects is an expensive operation, so the Oracle Content DB API does not do this automatically. If your appliation will be accessing the Oracle Content DB API both locally and over Web serivces, your application must be prepared to convert one datatype into the other when accessing date attributes. |
4714806 |
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Custom Workflow parameters that have more than 10 characters lead to unexpected errors. The Workflow administrator can define custom workflows with parameters. However, if the length of the parameter names is too long, this will lead to errors in multi-byte locales. |
Keep the parameter lengths to 10 multi-byte characters or less. |
4604396 |
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Back or Reload menu options do not work correctly in Accessible mode. In Accessible mode, the default context menu of the browser is shown so that user can use options such as Send Link... and Bookmark this Page.... But menu options such as Back, Forward, and Reload may not work correctly, because they depend on the server, as well, instead of being a front-end option only. |
The users are advised not to use browser's Back, Forward, or Reload menu options in Accessible mode. |
5096938 |
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Oracle Content DB Web client defaults to English for zh-hk and zh-sg. If users set their language to zh_hk (Hong Kong) or zh_sg (Singapore), the Web client displays English text. |
Use zh_tw instead of zh_hk and use zh_cn instead of zh_sg. |
5147389 |
Records management features provide the ability to specify that a document is to be retained for a certain period of time, prevent or control changes to the document during the retention period, and dispose of the document in a prescribed way once the retention period has expired.
Records management features provide the ability to specify that a document is to be retained for a certain period of time, prevent or control changes to the document during the retention period, and dispose of the document in a prescribed way once the retention period has expired.
Records management features provide the ability to specify that a document is to be retained for a certain period of time, prevent or control changes to the document during the retention period, and dispose of the document in a prescribed way once the retention period has expired. Oracle Content DB ships with an optional product, Oracle Records Database (Oracle Records DB), to support these records management capabilities.
The following features are provided:
File plan-based record organization
Record search
Flexible classification and retention policy management
Records declaration that can be:
Applied manually by users
Policy-based, applied on a per-folder basis
The following table describes the Oracle Records DB known issues.
Table 3 Known Issues in Oracle Records DB
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
|---|---|---|
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Users cannot log in to Oracle Records DB as non-default realm user when using a split Oracle Identity Management and Single Sign-On configuration. |
Use the first middle tier for the Oracle Records DB application. |
5448726 |
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Working copy is lost after move or destroy disposition. For versioned documents where one version is recorded, if the working copy is checked out at the same time the record disposition of a move or destroy occurs, the working copy will be lost. The move or destroy record disposition takes precedence over the checked-out working copy. |
None |
4592995 |
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An exception is thrown when submitting a record to a workflow. When submitting a record to a workflow, the following exception is thrown: "An unexpected error has occurred. Try your operation again later." A record is, by definition, immutable. Because a workflow can modify a file, the correct behavior is to refuse the record submitted. You can only submit files, and not records, to a workflow. |
Make a copy of the record and submit that file to the workflow. |
4641725 |
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User gets an unexpected error when trying to file a record. When trying to file a record with a record category that has a custom attribute of |
Fill in the value with a valid user. |
5153849 4863201 |
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After copying a record, the content of a new document may not be in the expected storage device. To optimize storage space, the |
After copying a record to a new document, rename the document. This forces a new |
5016779 |
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Records Management administrator needs content admin role to be able to see or unrecordize records. The Records Administrator role is not sufficient. An administrator must also have Content Administrator privileges to view and unrecordize files. |
Add the Content Administrator role to the Records Management administrator. |
4927159 |
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Record retention in near-line storage does not work as expected. After a record's content is moved to near-line storage, the subsequent lifecycle phases are not processed. |
Do not use near-line retention as a lifecycle phase. |
5010378 |
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Each lifecycle phase of a record is not logged completely. Setting the log level at FINEST does not provide sufficent log information of the lifecycle phases of a record. |
None |
5015919 |
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If a lifecycle phase fails, the Retry menu option does not work. If a lifecycle phase fails, there is an error that must be addressed before retrying the processing of the failed record. The RMA must be notified of the failure and fix the problem. |
Setting up the workflow e-mail notification is required to communicate the error to the RMA. The RMA can then address the problem and retry the failed record. |
5021853 |
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Moving the content that was previously stored on a Centera system or in SnapLock to the database of may fail in some circumstances. If there is a MOVE phase after a RETAIN in retention storage phase, followed by a second RETAIN phase, the second RETAIN fails. |
Set up the lifecycle phases such that the MOVE phase occurs after the two RETAIN phases. |
5027484 |
Oracle Drive is a native Windows application that lets users use Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office, and other Windows applications to access content in Oracle Content DB. Oracle Drive displays files and folders in Oracle Content DB as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer. Oracle Drive also provides an effective offline solution that lets users edit files on their computers when offline, and then synchronize with the server when they reconnect.
Oracle Drive has the following minimum hardware requirements:
CPU Pentium III, 450Mhz
Memory (RAM): 256MB
A TCP/IP network connection
Hard disk space (calculate by adding the following three items):
20MB for initial installation
Twice the size of all files you will be editing or uploading at one time
Total size of all files you will require to be available offline
This section describes the new features in Oracle Drive.
Silent Install: Oracle Drive now supports the ability to install Oracle Drive without any user prompting.
Support for creating an MSI (Microsoft Installation) file for integration with Active Directory Management Profiles, and other mass deployment mechanisms.
Admin-configured Service Configurations
End users don't have to know how to create services
Administrators can provide an XML file which Oracle Drive will use to pre-create Oracle Drive services through a URL on a website.
Through the Web client, an administrator or end user can define category policies (including record policies) on folders that require users to provide classification information when certain operations, like upload, occur. Similarly, you can define workflow policies on folders when certain operations occur that require users to provide information to submit the document to a workflow approval process.
Oracle Drive now prompts the end user to provide the required information in the same way that the Web client does.
Create and Modify Dates are now set according to Windows standards when copying or moving files to the server.
You can now upload and dowload documents up to 4GB to Oracle Content DB servers (but you must bypass WebCache).
New option Allow cleartext password to be set in Service Properties where you must now explicitly allow sending of cleartext passwords. This is for improved protection against malicious servers.
New option Clear cached files on disconnect to reduce possibility of cached files being found by a hacker. This is useful only if you are ALWAYS on-line.
Various dialogs and tabs have been simplified and made more usable.
Context Sensitive Help
New setting Always Connect to my Personal Library. This allows end users to quickly navigate to all of their files.
Copying and Deleting Folders is now a single request to the server and single transaction on the server. This duplicates the Web client behavior:
Speed for Copy and Delete folder is much improved.
The Trash folder now has a single folder in it, rather than all the files listed individually.
If the top level folder is not deletable by the end user (such as trying to delete a Library), the operation is now prevented and no files in the folder will be deleted.
All of the copied files now retain their original category information.
Offline Synchronization improved:
A new dialog displays all files which are marked as available offline.
Entire folder tree can now be marked as Always available offline.
Changes made by other users are now synchronized.
New Right-click menu items:
Sharing: brings up the Advanced Properties dialog and immediately navigates to the Sharing Tab.
Email a URL: brings up your preferred email client, and puts a URL to the document or folder into the body of the email.
Report a Problem button which sends an e-mail with attached log files for Development to analyze any problems. Oracle recommends opening a Technical Assistance Request with Oracle Support if a resolution is required.
Status monitor is now resizeable horizontally and vertically.
This section describes Oracle Drive known limitations and workarounds.
The following Oracle Drive versions are one and the same:
Client CD version 10.2.0.0.1
Client version 10.2.0.0.0
.exe version 4.4.80
During or after the installation, do not allow any Spyware or Adware removal tools to remove the Oracle Drive Helper Object. The Oracle Drive Helper Object is required for the Advanced Properties feature of Oracle Drive. The Oracle Drive Helper Object can be identified by one of the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5D33B3E0-4FB3-4ED1-9106-B6EB06A3B7C2}
OracleDriveHelperObject
ODriveHelper.dll
Oracle Drive locks, downloads and uploads entire files. Oracle does not recommend using Oracle Drive to access files which must be simultaneously edited by several people, such as Microsoft Access database files, because the other users will be prevented from locking the file until the first user closes the file. Oracle also does not recommend user Oracle Drive to access very large files which will have only small parts of them updated, such as Microsoft Access database files, because Oracle Drive will need to download and upload the entire file.
The following table describes the Oracle Drive known issues.
Table 4 Known Issues in Oracle Drive
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
|---|---|---|
|
When users click on the "Work Online" button, the message "Connecting to remote host" may be continually displayed. |
Terminate the Oracle Drive process through the Windows Task Manager. Configure your client firewall software to allow communication between Oracle Drive and the server. |
5436781 |
|
When users try to delete a link to a folder, they may see the Windows message "Preparing to delete." Oracle Drive may open every folder in the folder tree under that link. This is standard Windows behavior because Windows thinks the link is a folder. Only the link is actually deleted. |
Delete the link through the Web Client. |
5434672 |
|
When running Oracle Drive in administration mode with Japanese selected as the setup language, clicking Change on the Network Location screen causes an error to appear. |
Use the default location for the MSI and other files. |
5415838 |
|
If you are using digest authentication (not plaintext authentication), and your Oracle Internet Directory nicknane attribute is not the user's e-mail address, and the user incorrectly enters the e-mail address for the username, the user may see the error "Cannot find the path specified", and will not be reprompted for the username. |
Users may also correct their username by using the Service->Edit dialog. Switch to HTTPS and use plain text authentication. |
5410235 |
|
The following string is not translated: "The sytem cannot find the file/folder..." |
None |
5408468 |
|
When you upgrade from previous versions of Oracle Drive, your Cache Size will be reset to 200MB. |
After you upgrade, manually edit your cache size to be the desired value. |
5394148 |
|
If an end user has used Oracle Content Services in the past, when they right click in the Web Client and choose Edit, they may get an error "File Not Found. Resynchronize your Oracle Drive." |
Delete the |
5393627 |
|
If users need to upload or download files between 2GB and 4GB, they may see error "Error 58 : Operation cannot be performed by the server." |
For uploading files less than 4GB, configure Oracle Drive to point directly to the non-WebCache port on the server. Files larger than 4GB are not currently supported. |
5351552 |
|
Oracle Drive may automatically downloads any file with a .exe, .pdf, or .jpg extension when the utility sees it in a shared library. This is due to Windows behavior. |
Use the List View or Detailed View option in Windows Explorer. |
5277664 |
|
Links cannot be distinguished from folders in Windows Explorer. |
Use Advanced Properties and look for Type: Folder Link. |
5094164 |
|
If a user has a custom access role that does not have Read access on documents, the user cannot Copy the documents to another location. |
Use the Web Client. |
5089104 |
|
When viewing thumbnails of documents in folders where the user has only read access, the user may get the error "There was a problem saving <filename>. Error 5, access denied. |
Switch to use List View or Detailed View in Windows Explorer. |
4627065 |
|
With usernames for non-default site, if a user is moving a file from the client to the server, and the network connection fails, the Save As dialog is displayed, but Save As fails with the message: "The file doesn't exist. It was probably removed from the cache." |
This not a problem with servers with only one site. This is also not a problem with Copy. In the case mentioned, the file IS actually in the cache, and the user must navigate to their local cache directory to find the file. The cache location is |
4582069 |
|
Copying a link to a document to another location on the server will create a new document at that location. |
Use the Web Client. |
4590946 |
|
Locks created through the Web client do not show up in Oracle Drive. |
Use the Advanced Properties dialog to see what kinds of locks are on specific documents, or use the Web client. |
4479796 |
|
Users may not receive a response if they click on a file or folder that has a client-side path length exceeding approximately 250 characters. |
Map the Oracle Drive mount point to be lower in the folder hierarchy (so that the client side path will NOT exceed 250 characters) or use the Web Client. |
4418454 |
|
Access date is always 01 JAN 1986 12:00AM This is due to a limitation in WebDAV. |
None |
3588640 |
|
The Oracle Drive Status Monitor displays the error "Error 58, The specified server cannot perform the requested operation." Alternatively, the application logs display the error "MOD_OC4J_0053". |
Contact Oracle Support. |
3604573 |
|
No search results returned. On Windows XP SP2 and other versions of Windows XP, no search results are returned when searching on an Oracle Drive letter in either offline or online mode. |
Apply Microsoft hotfix 885843. The Microsoft link for more information about this issue is Note: After extracting the hotfix executable, run the file |
3913506 |
|
Cannot perform operations on files or folders with long folder paths. This affects files or folders with folder paths greater than approximately 256 chars. |
Map the Oracle Drive disk to a point lower in the folder hierarchy, so that the drive letter path is shorter. For example, if the patch is |
4231708, 4418454, 4418790 |
|
Guest users cannot install and run Oracle Drive. The user must have Administrator rights on their local machine to install and use Oracle Drive. |
Use Oracle Drive as a user with the Administrator or "Limited" privilege. |
4240064 |
|
Users with the Administrative Assistant access role are not be able to complete the process of creating a new folder. Oracle Content DB users with the Administrative Assistant access role can create folders, but cannot rename them to the desired name. |
Microsoft Windows Explorer (which generates the requests to Oracle Drive ) first creates a folder with the name If an Administrative Assistant tries to create a new folder, it is left with the name such as To avoid this problem, users with the Administrative Assistant role should use the Oracle Content DB Web client to create folders. |
4363243 |
|
Files do not immediately appear in the Trash folder or other folders. When other users create files in folders, or when one user deletes files and then looks in the trash, the item may not appear for several minutes. |
Right-click the Oracle Drive Icon and choose Refresh, and then press F5 while the Windows Explorer window is active. Alternatively, change the service to refresh every 15 seconds by using the Advanced Service Properties. |
4373093 |
|
Opening and closing files with Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Excel 2003 modifies the file on the server, even though the user did not change the content. Microsoft Word 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2003 update a file with who last opened the file as soon as the file is opened. When you close the file, Oracle Drive writes this changed content to the server. |
To avoid this issue, open the document using File > Open and then specify Open in Read Only. |
4387340 |
|
User names in mixed-case or uppercase can fail to authenticate against regular (non-SSL) servers. For regular HTTP (non-SSL) DAV servers, Oracle Drive and Web Folders avoid transmitting the actual password by submitting a digest of the password. The algorithm used to generate the digest is sensitive to the case of the user name. |
To avoid this issue, enter user names in lowercase only. |
4497461 |
|
Oracle Drive prompts you to store the file thumbs.db when viewing images in read-only folders. If you view a set of images as thumbnails in a read-only folder, Oracle Drive prompts you to specify a location to store the file |
When prompted, store the file Alternatively, do not view images as thumbnails in folders that are specified as read-only. |
4627065 |
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