Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Getting Started with Oracle WebCenter Sites

1 Introduction to Developing with WebCenter Sites

• 1.1 About Developing with WebCenter Sites
• 1.2 Typical Tasks for WebCenter Sites Developers
  • 1.2.1 Data Models for Content Display
  • 1.2.2 Content Entry Forms for Content Management Sites
  • 1.2.3 Templates and Elements to Render Content on the Website
    • 1.2.3.1 Element Files
    • 1.2.3.2 APIs and JSP Tags
    • 1.2.3.3 Sessions and Cookies
  • 1.2.4 WebCenter Sites Systems for Development, Management, Delivery, and Testing
  • 1.2.5 Approvals and Publishing
  • 1.2.6 Caching to Optimize Performance
    • 1.2.6.1 Page Caching
    • 1.2.6.2 Resultset Caching
    • 1.2.6.3 Asset Caching
    • 1.2.6.4 Satellite Server Caching
      • 1.2.6.4.1 HTTP Requests
      • 1.2.6.4.2 Satellite Server Servlets
• 1.3 WebCenter Sites Utilities
• 1.4 WebCenter Sites Interfaces
• 1.5 Use Case Scenarios for WebCenter Sites
  • 1.5.1 Developing Informational (Branding) Websites
  • 1.5.2 Creating Marketing-Oriented Websites
  • 1.5.3 Creating Mobile Websites

2 Overview of the Avisports Sample Site

• 2.1 Touring the Avisports Sample Site as a Content Contributor
• 2.2 Touring the Infrastructure of the Avisports Sample Site

3 The WebCenter Sites Development Process

• 3.1 Step 1: Set Up the Team
• 3.2 Step 2: Create Functional and Design Specifications
  • 3.2.1 Functional Requirements
  • 3.2.2 Page Design
  • 3.2.3 Caching Strategy
  • 3.2.4 Security Strategy (Access Control)
  • 3.2.5 Separate Format from Content (Elements from Assets)
    • 3.2.5.1 Determine the Asset Types (Content)
    • 3.2.5.2 Decide How to Handle Images and Other Blobs
    • 3.2.5.3 Map Out the Functional Design and Format (Elements)
  • 3.2.6 Data Design
    • 3.2.6.1 Asset Types
    • 3.2.6.2 Auxiliary Tables That Support Your Asset Types
    • 3.2.6.3 Visitor Data
• 3.3 Step 3: Set Management System Requirements
• 3.4 Step 4: Implement the Data Design
• 3.5 Step 5: Build the Online Site
• 3.6 Step 6: Set Up the Management System
  • 3.6.1 Import Content as Assets
  • 3.6.2 Import Catalog Data and Flex Asset Data
  • 3.6.3 Instruct the Editorial Team About Site Design
• 3.7 Step 7: Set Up the Delivery System
• 3.8 Step 8: Publish to the Delivery System

Part II Building Your Data Model

4 Understanding the Asset Types and Asset Models

• 4.1 What Are Asset Models?
  • 4.1.1 Two Data Models
  • 4.1.2 What Are Asset Types?
    • 4.1.2.1 Asset Types Delivered with WebCenter Sites
    • 4.1.2.2 Asset Types Delivered with Engage
  • 4.1.3 Which Asset Model Should You Use to Represent Your Content?
    • 4.1.3.1 When to Use the Basic Model
    • 4.1.3.2 When to Use the Flex Model
• 4.2 The Basic Asset Model
  • 4.2.1 Relationships Between Basic Assets
    • 4.2.1.1 Associations
    • 4.2.1.2 Unnamed Relationships
  • 4.2.2 Category, Source, and Subtype
    • 4.2.2.1 Category
    • 4.2.2.2 Source
    • 4.2.2.3 Subtype
  • 4.2.3 Basic Asset Types and the Database
    • 4.2.3.1 Template Asset Type and the Database
    • 4.2.3.2 Default Columns in the Basic Asset Type Database Table
• 4.3 The Flex Asset Model
  • 4.3.1 The Flex Family
    • 4.3.1.1 Parent, Child, and Flex Assets
  • 4.3.2 The Flex Family in the Avisports Sample Site
  • 4.3.3 Flex Attributes
    • 4.3.3.1 Data Types for Attributes
    • 4.3.3.2 Default Input Styles for Attributes
    • 4.3.3.3 Foreign Attributes
  • 4.3.4 Flex Parents and Flex Parent Definitions
    • 4.3.4.1 Business Rules and Taxonomy
  • 4.3.5 Flex Assets and Flex Definition Assets
  • 4.3.6 Flex Families and the Database
    • 4.3.6.1 Default Columns in the Flex Asset Type Database Table
    • 4.3.6.2 The _Mungo Tables
    • 4.3.6.3 The MungoBlobs Table
    • 4.3.6.4 The _AMap Tables
• 4.4 Assetsets and Searchstates
• 4.5 Search Engines and the Two Asset Models
• 4.6 Tags and the Two Asset Models
• 4.7 Summary: Basic and Flex Asset Models

5 Designing Basic Asset Types

• 5.1 About the AssetMaker Utility
  • 5.1.1 How AssetMaker Works
  • 5.1.2 Asset Descriptor Files
    • 5.1.2.1 About the Asset Descriptor File
    • 5.1.2.2 About Format and Syntax
    • 5.1.2.3 About the AssetMaker Tags
  • 5.1.3 Columns in the Asset Type's Database Table
    • 5.1.3.1 The Source Column: A Special Case
    • 5.1.3.2 Storage Types for the Columns
    • 5.1.3.3 Input Types for the Fields
    • 5.1.3.4 Data Types for Standard Asset Fields
  • 5.1.4 Elements and SQL Statements for the Asset Type
    • 5.1.4.1 The Elements
      • 5.1.4.1.1 About PreUpdate and PostUpdate Elements
    • 5.1.4.2 The SQL Statements
• 5.2 Before You Begin Creating Basic Asset Types
  • 5.2.1 Planning the Asset Type Design
  • 5.2.2 Setting Up Your Development System
• 5.3 Creating Basic Asset Types
  • 5.3.1 Coding the Asset Descriptor File
  • 5.3.2 Uploading the Asset Descriptor File to WebCenter Sites
  • 5.3.3 Creating the Asset Table
  • 5.3.4 Configuring the Asset Type
  • 5.3.5 Enabling the Asset Type on Your Site
  • 5.3.6 Fine-Tuning the Asset Descriptor File
  • 5.3.7 Customizing the Asset Type Elements (Optional)
  • 5.3.8 Adding Subtypes (Optional)
  • 5.3.9 Configuring Association Fields (Optional)
  • 5.3.10 Configuring Categories (Optional)
  • 5.3.11 Configuring Sources (Optional)
  • 5.3.12 Adding Mimetypes (Conditional)
  • 5.3.13 Editing Search Elements to Enable Indexed Search (Optional)
  • 5.3.14 Creating and Assigning Asset Type Icons (Contributor Interface Only)
  • 5.3.15 Coding Templates for the Asset Type
  • 5.3.16 Moving the Asset Types to Other Systems
• 5.4 Deleting Basic Asset Types

6 Designing Flex Asset Types

• 6.1 About Designing Flex Asset Types
• 6.2 Design Tips for Flex Families
  • 6.2.1 Visitors on the Delivery System
  • 6.2.2 Users on the Management System
  • 6.2.3 How Many Attribute Types Should You Create?
  • 6.2.4 Designing Flex Attributes
    • 6.2.4.1 Which Data Types Are Available for Attributes
    • 6.2.4.2 About Using Attribute Editors
    • 6.2.4.3 Where Will Each Attribute Be Used?
    • 6.2.4.4 Attribute Dependencies Imposed by Hierarchy
  • 6.2.5 How Many Definition Types Should You Create?
  • 6.2.6 Designing Parent Definition and Flex Definition Assets
    • 6.2.6.1 Determining Hierarchical Place
    • 6.2.6.2 Determining Attribute Inheritance
    • 6.2.6.3 How Many Flex Parent Definition Assets?
    • 6.2.6.4 How Many Flex Definition Assets?
• 6.3 The Flex Family Maker Utility
• 6.4 Flex Asset Elements
• 6.5 Setting Up Your Development System
• 6.6 Creating a Flex Asset Family
  • 6.6.1 Creating a Flex Family
  • 6.6.2 (Conditional) Creating Additional Flex Family Members
  • 6.6.3 (Conditional) Configuring the Flex Family Members
  • 6.6.4 Enabling the New Flex Asset Types
  • 6.6.5 Create Flex Attributes
    • 6.6.5.1 Creating Flex Attributes: Basic Procedure
    • 6.6.5.2 Creating Flex Attributes of Type Blob (Upload Field)
    • 6.6.5.3 Creating Flex Attributes of Type Asset
    • 6.6.5.4 Creating Foreign Flex Attributes
  • 6.6.6 (Conditional) Creating Flex Filter Assets
  • 6.6.7 Creating Parent Definition Assets
  • 6.6.8 Creating Flex Definition Assets
  • 6.6.9 Creating Flex Parent Assets
  • 6.6.10 Creating and Assigning Asset Type Icons (Contributor Interface Only)
  • 6.6.11 Coding Templates for the Flex Assets
  • 6.6.12 Testing Your Design (Creating Test Flex Assets)
  • 6.6.13 (Conditional) Creating Flex Asset Associations
  • 6.6.14 Moving Asset Types to Other Systems
• 6.7 What You May Need to Know About Editing Flex Attributes, Parents, and Definitions
  • 6.7.1 What You May Need to Know About Editing Attributes
  • 6.7.2 What You May Need to Know About Editing Parent Definitions and Flex Definitions
  • 6.7.3 What You May Need to Know About Editing Parents and Flex Assets
• 6.8 Using Product Sets
  • 6.8.1 About Using Product Sets
  • 6.8.2 Creating a Product Set

7 Creating a Hierarchical Flex Family

• 7.1 Hierarchical Organization
• 7.2 Flex Family Specifications
• 7.3 Creating a Sample Flex Family Using a Real-World Example
  • 7.3.1 Creating a Flex Family
  • 7.3.2 Enabling the New Flex Asset Types
  • 7.3.3 Adding a Flex Family Tab to the WebCenter Sites Tree
  • 7.3.4 Creating Parent Definition Assets
  • 7.3.5 Creating Flex Parent Assets
  • 7.3.6 Creating Flex Definition Assets
  • 7.3.7 Creating Flex Assets
  • 7.3.8 Translating the Formulaic Data Model into a Real-World Data Model
  • 7.3.9 Developing Your Real-World Model

8 Creating Flex Filters

• 8.1 About Flex Filter Classes and Assets
  • 8.1.1 Flex Filter Classes
  • 8.1.2 Flex Filter Assets
• 8.2 Defining a Flex Filter Class and Creating a Flex Filter Asset
  • 8.2.1 Implementation of a Flex Filter Class
    • 8.2.1.1 AbstractFlexFilter Class Extension
  • 8.2.2 Defining a Custom Flex Filter Class
  • 8.2.3 Creating a Flex Filter Asset
• 8.3 Document Transformation Flex Filter
  • 8.3.1 Default Solution
  • 8.3.2 About Custom Solutions
  • 8.3.3 Using a Default Transformation Engine
  • 8.3.4 Customizing Document Transformation Flex Filter
    • 8.3.4.1 Writing and Deploying a Document Transformer Flex Filter
    • 8.3.4.2 Registering the Transformation Engine
    • 8.3.4.3 Registering the Document Transformer

9 Designing Attribute Editors

• 9.1 About Attribute Editors
  • 9.1.1 The presentationobject.dtd File
  • 9.1.2 The Attribute Editor Asset
    • 9.1.2.1 The Syntax and the Default Tags
    • 9.1.2.2 CHECKBOXES
    • 9.1.2.3 CKEditor
    • 9.1.2.4 PICKASSET
    • 9.1.2.5 PULLDOWN Example
    • 9.1.2.6 RADIOBUTTONS
    • 9.1.2.7 TEXTAREA
    • 9.1.2.8 TEXTFIELD
    • 9.1.2.9 TYPEAHEAD
    • 9.1.2.10 UPLOADER
  • 9.1.3 The Attribute Editor Elements
  • 9.1.4 Conventions for the Attribute Editor Elements
• 9.2 Creating Attribute Editors
• 9.3 Customizing Attribute Editors
  • 9.3.1 Example: Customized Attribute Editor
    • 9.3.1.1 Step 1: Editing the presentationobject.dtd File
    • 9.3.1.2 Step 2: Specifying Permission for the Example Attribute Editor
    • 9.3.1.3 Step 3: Editing the TEXTAREA Element
  • 9.3.2 Adding Custom Logic to Validate an Uploaded File
• 9.4 Considerations About Editing Attribute Editors

10 Configuring Bundled Attribute Editors

• 10.1 Configuring CKEditor
  • 10.1.1 Before You Begin
  • 10.1.2 How to Create a CKEditor Instance and Enable It for a Field
  • 10.1.3 How to Enable CKEditor for Use in Web Mode
  • 10.1.4 How to Enable Selected Asset Types for the CKEditor
  • 10.1.5 How to Set the Approval Dependency for Included Assets
  • 10.1.6 How to Customize the CKEditor Toolbar
  • 10.1.7 How to Configure Spell Check Support in CKEditor
• 10.2 Configuring the Clarkii Online Image Editor
  • 10.2.1 How to Create a Clarkii OIE Instance and Enable it for a Field
  • 10.2.2 How to Configure Clarkii OIE Properties
  • 10.2.3 How to Implement a Field Copier Filter to Classify Assets
• 10.3 Configuring the Image Picker
  • 10.3.1 How to Categorize Image Assets for Display in Image Picker
  • 10.3.2 How to Create Image Picker Attribute Editor Definition Code

11 Working with the WebCenter Sites Database

• 11.1 Types of Database Tables
  • 11.1.1 Object Tables
  • 11.1.2 Tree Tables
  • 11.1.3 Content Tables
  • 11.1.4 Foreign Tables
  • 11.1.5 System Tables
  • 11.1.6 Identifying a Table's Type
• 11.2 Types of Columns (Fields)
  • 11.2.1 Generic Field Types
  • 11.2.2 Database-Specific Field Types
  • 11.2.3 Indirect Data Storage with the WebCenter Sites URL Field
• 11.3 About Adding to the System Tables
• 11.4 About Property Files and Databases

12 Managing Data in Non-Asset Tables

• 12.1 Using Methods and Tags to Program Data Management in Non-Asset Tables
  • 12.1.1 About Writing and Retrieving Data
    • 12.1.1.1 Security Through CatalogManager
    • 12.1.1.2 Tree Manager Commands for Managing the Tree Tables
  • 12.1.2 Methods for Querying for Data
  • 12.1.3 Lists and Listing Data
• 12.2 Coding Data Entry Forms
  • 12.2.1 How To Add a Row
    • 12.2.1.1 The addrowFORM Element
    • 12.2.1.2 Root Element for the addrow Page
  • 12.2.2 How To Delete a Row
    • 12.2.2.1 The deleterowFORM Element
    • 12.2.2.2 Root Element for the deleterow Page
  • 12.2.3 How To Query a Table
    • 12.2.3.1 The SelectNameForm Element
    • 12.2.3.2 The Root Element for the QueryEditRowForm Page
    • 12.2.3.3 The Root Element for the QueryEditRow Page
  • 12.2.4 How To Query a Table with an Embedded SQL Statement
    • 12.2.4.1 QueryInlineSQLForm
    • 12.2.4.2 The Root Element for the QueryInlineSQL Page
• 12.3 Consideration About Deleting Non-Asset Tables

Part III Developing a Website

13 Website Development with the MVC Framework and APIs

• 13.1 Server-Side and Client-Side Development Methodologies
• 13.2 Server-Side MVC Framework
  • 13.2.1 Developer’s Samples Website
  • 13.2.2 WebCenter Sites MVC Framework Overview
  • 13.2.3 Controllers
  • 13.2.4 Views
• 13.3 Pages, Pagelets, and Elements
• 13.4 Template and CSElement Assets
• 13.5 Page Assets and Site Navigation
• 13.6 Date-Based Preview
• 13.7 Multilingual Support
• 13.8 Caching in the MVC Framework
• 13.9 Server-Side Java APIs
  • 13.9.1 Asset Reader
  • 13.9.2 Navigation Reader
  • 13.9.3 Link Builder
  • 13.9.4 Blob Link Builder
  • 13.9.5 Searcher
  • 13.9.6 Recommendation Reader
  • 13.9.7 Table Reader
• 13.10 REST APIs
• 13.11 Sample Websites

14 Developing a Server-Side Website

• 14.1 About Developing a Server-Side Website
• 14.2 Working with the Controller Interface
• 14.3 Creating a Controller
• 14.4 Creating a Template
• 14.5 Setting Up the Home Page
• 14.6 Adding Site Navigation

15 Developing a Client-Side Website

• 15.1 About Client-Side Websites
• 15.2 REST Calls for Developing REST-Avisports: Examples
  • 15.2.1 Getting Navigation Menus
  • 15.2.2 Getting the Home Page
  • 15.2.3 Getting an Additional Website Page
  • 15.2.4 Calling an Article from a Page
  • 15.2.5 Calling a Collection Resource with Pagination
  • 15.2.6 Calling a Search Resource
  • 15.2.7 Calling Page Segments
    • 15.2.7.1 Calling a Page Without Segments
    • 15.2.7.2 Calling a Page with Segments That Target Specific Visitors
    • 15.2.7.3 Calling a Page with Segments That Target Different Visitors
    • 15.2.7.4 Calling a Page with Segments That Target More Visitors

16 Website Development with Tag Technologies

• 16.1 About Choosing a Coding Language
• 16.2 About the Oracle WebCenter Sites Context
  • 16.2.1 The ICS Object
  • 16.2.2 The FTCS tag
• 16.3 Understanding WebCenter Sites JSP
  • 16.3.1 About the WebCenter Sites Standard Beginning
    • 16.3.1.1 Taglib Directives
    • 16.3.1.2 Page Directives
    • 16.3.1.3 The cs:ftcs Tag
  • 16.3.2 About JSP Implicit Objects
  • 16.3.3 About JSP Syntax
  • 16.3.4 About JSP Actions
  • 16.3.5 About JSP Declarations
  • 16.3.6 About Scriptlets and Expressions
  • 16.3.7 About JSP Directives
  • 16.3.8 About Oracle WebCenter Sites Tag Libraries
    • 16.3.8.1 Tag Libraries for Both Basic and Flex Assets
    • 16.3.8.2 Tag Libraries for Basic Assets
    • 16.3.8.3 Tag Libraries for Flex Assets
• 16.4 Understanding WebCenter Sites XML
  • 16.4.1 WebCenter Sites Standard Beginning
    • 16.4.1.1 XML Version and Encoding
    • 16.4.1.2 The DTD File
    • 16.4.1.3 The FTCS Tag
  • 16.4.2 XML Entities and Reserved Characters
  • 16.4.3 XML Parsing Errors
• 16.5 Understanding WebCenter Sites Tags
  • 16.5.1 Tags That Create the WebCenter Sites Context
  • 16.5.2 Tags That Handle Variables
  • 16.5.3 Tags That Call Pages and Elements
  • 16.5.4 Tags That Create URLs
  • 16.5.5 Tags That Control Caching
  • 16.5.6 Tags That Set Cookies
  • 16.5.7 Programming Construct Tags
  • 16.5.8 Tags That Manage Compositional and Approval Dependencies
  • 16.5.9 Tags That Retrieve Information About Basic Assets
    • 16.5.9.1 Performance Notes About the Asset Tags
  • 16.5.10 Tags That Create Assetsets (Flex Assets)
  • 16.5.11 Tags That Create Searchstates (Flex Assets)
• 16.6 About Variables Supported in WebCenter Sites
  • 16.6.1 Reserved Variables
  • 16.6.2 Regular Variables
    • 16.6.2.1 Variables with SETVAR
    • 16.6.2.2 Variables Using a URL
    • 16.6.2.3 Default Variables for Elements and Templates with Explorer
    • 16.6.2.4 Variables Using HTML Forms
  • 16.6.3 Session Variables
  • 16.6.4 Working With Variables
    • 16.6.4.1 Syntax to Read Variables' Values
    • 16.6.4.2 Tags to Display Variables' Values
    • 16.6.4.3 Assigning of One Variable Value to Another Variable
    • 16.6.4.4 Variables in HTML Tags
    • 16.6.4.5 Evaluation of Variables with IF/THEN/ELSE
  • 16.6.5 Variables and Precedence
  • 16.6.6 Best Practices with Variables
• 16.7 Other WebCenter Sites Storage Constructs
  • 16.7.1 Built-ins
  • 16.7.2 Lists
    • 16.7.2.1 Looping Through Lists
  • 16.7.3 Counters
• 16.8 About Values for Special Characters

17 About Sessions and Cookies

• 17.1 About Sessions
• 17.2 Session Lifetime
  • 17.2.1 Session Variables Maintained by WebCenter Sites
  • 17.2.2 Logging In and Logging Out
• 17.3 Sessions Example
  • 17.3.1 FeelingsForm Element
  • 17.3.2 SetFeeling Element
  • 17.3.3 Meat Element
• 17.4 About Cookies
  • 17.4.1 CookieServer
  • 17.4.2 Cookie Tags
• 17.5 Cookie Example
  • 17.5.1 Start.xml
  • 17.5.2 ColorForm
  • 17.5.3 CreateCookie
  • 17.5.4 DisplayWelcome
  • 17.5.5 Running the Cookie Example
• 17.6 Tips and Tricks
• 17.7 Satellite Server Session Tracking
  • 17.7.1 Flushing a Session Using a URL
  • 17.7.2 Flushing Current Session Information
  • 17.7.3 Flushing Other Session Information

18 Creating Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets

• 18.1 About Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
• 18.2 About Pages
  • 18.2.1 Elements, Pagelets, and Caching
  • 18.2.2 Calling Pages and Elements
  • 18.2.3 Page vs. Pagelet
• 18.3 Using CSElement, Template, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.3.1 Template Assets
  • 18.3.2 CSElement Assets
  • 18.3.3 SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.3.4 Non-Asset Elements
• 18.4 Creating Template Assets
  • 18.4.1 Before You Begin Creating a Template Asset
    • 18.4.1.1 Naming a Template Asset
    • 18.4.1.2 Designating a Template as Typed or Typeless
    • 18.4.1.3 Template Sharing and Site Replication
  • 18.4.2 Creating a Template Asset
    • 18.4.2.1 Open the Template Form
    • 18.4.2.2 Name and Describe the Template Asset
    • 18.4.2.3 Configure the Template's Element
    • 18.4.2.4 Configure SiteEntry
    • 18.4.2.5 Configure the Map
    • 18.4.2.6 Create a Thumbnail (Optional)
    • 18.4.2.7 Inspect the Template
• 18.5 Creating CSElement Assets
  • 18.5.1 Before You Begin Creating a CSElement
    • 18.5.1.1 Naming the CSElement
    • 18.5.1.2 CSElement Sharing and Site Replication
  • 18.5.2 Creating a CSElement Asset
    • 18.5.2.1 Open the CSElement Form
    • 18.5.2.2 Name and Describe the CSElement Asset
    • 18.5.2.3 Configure the Element
    • 18.5.2.4 Configure the Map
    • 18.5.2.5 Save and Inspect the CSElement
    • 18.5.2.6 Add the CSElement to Bookmarks
• 18.6 Creating SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.6.1 Before You Begin Creating SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.6.2 Creating a SiteEntry Asset
    • 18.6.2.1 Open the SiteEntry Form
    • 18.6.2.2 Create the SiteEntry Asset
    • 18.6.2.3 Save and Inspect the SiteEntry Asset
• 18.7 Managing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.7.1 Designating Default Approval Templates (Static Publishing Only)
  • 18.7.2 Editing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.7.3 Sharing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.7.4 Deleting Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 18.7.5 Previewing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
    • 18.7.5.1 Templates and Preview
    • 18.7.5.2 CSElement and SiteEntry Assets and Preview
• 18.8 Using Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer to Create and Edit Element Logic
  • 18.8.1 Creating Templates and CSElements
  • 18.8.2 Editing Templates and CSElements

19 Creating Templates and Wrappers

• 19.1 Working with Templates
  • 19.1.1 Layout Templates
    • 19.1.1.1 A layout template can be invoked from a browser
    • 19.1.1.2 A layout template can be assigned to an asset
    • 19.1.1.3 A layout template typically renders an entire web page
    • 19.1.1.4 Use Case 1: Building a Layout Template for Article Assets
  • 19.1.2 Pagelet Templates
    • 19.1.2.1 A pagelet template cannot be invoked directly from a browser
    • 19.1.2.2 A pagelet template cannot be assigned to an asset
    • 19.1.2.3 A pagelet template renders a page fragment
    • 19.1.2.4 Use Case 2: Using Pagelet Templates
  • 19.1.3 Page Templates
    • 19.1.3.1 A Page Template Can be Invoked from a Browser
    • 19.1.3.2 A Page Template Cannot be Assigned to an Asset
    • 19.1.3.3 A Page Template Can be Used for Previewing
• 19.2 Working with Wrappers
  • 19.2.1 Creating a Wrapper Page
  • 19.2.2 Previewing Wrappers

20 Coding Elements for Templates and CSElements

• 20.1 About Dependencies
  • 20.1.1 The Publishing System and Approval Dependencies
    • 20.1.1.1 Calculating Approval Dependencies
    • 20.1.1.2 Exists vs. Exact vs. None
    • 20.1.1.3 Approval Templates for Export to Disk
    • 20.1.1.4 Subtypes, Flex Definitions, and Approval Templates
  • 20.1.2 Page Generation and Compositional Dependencies
    • 20.1.2.1 CacheManager and Dynamic Publish Sessions
    • 20.1.2.2 CacheManager and the Preview Function
• 20.2 About Coding to Log Dependencies
  • 20.2.1 ASSET.LOAD and asset:load
  • 20.2.2 The ASSETSET (assetset) Tag Family
    • 20.2.2.1 Setting the Approval Dependency Type
  • 20.2.3 RENDER.GETPAGEURL and render:getpageurl
  • 20.2.4 RENDER.LOGDEP (render:logdep)
    • 20.2.4.1 Setting the Approval Dependency Type
  • 20.2.5 RENDER.FILTER and render:filter
  • 20.2.6 RENDER.UNKNOWNDEPS and render:unknowndeps
• 20.3 About Invoking CSElement and SiteEntry Assets
• 20.4 Coding Elements to Display Basic Assets
  • 20.4.1 Assets That Represent Simple Content
  • 20.4.2 Associations
  • 20.4.3 ImageFile Assets or Other Blob Assets
  • 20.4.4 Basic Assets That Can Have Embedded Links
  • 20.4.5 Collections
    • 20.4.5.1 Collection Templates and Approval Dependencies
    • 20.4.5.2 Collection Templates and Compositional Dependencies
  • 20.4.6 Query Assets
  • 20.4.7 Page Assets
• 20.5 About Coding Elements that Display Flex Assets
  • 20.5.1 Assetsets
  • 20.5.2 Searchstate Objects
  • 20.5.3 Assetsets, Searchstates, and Flex Attribute Asset Types
  • 20.5.4 Scope
• 20.6 Coding Templates That Display Flex Assets
  • 20.6.1 Example Data Set for the Examples in This Section
  • 20.6.2 Examples of Assetsets with One Product (Flex Asset)
    • 20.6.2.1 Create a Searchstate and Apply It to an Assetset
    • 20.6.2.2 Get the Price of the Product
    • 20.6.2.3 Display the Price of the Product
    • 20.6.2.4 Get the Colors for the Product
    • 20.6.2.5 Display the Colors of the Product
    • 20.6.2.6 Create a List Object for the ASSETSET.GETMULTIPLEVALUES tag
    • 20.6.2.7 Get the Value for Both Price and Color with ASSETSET.GETMULTIPLEVALUES
    • 20.6.2.8 Display the Value of Price and Color for the jeans-2 Product
  • 20.6.3 Special Cases: Flex Attributes of Type Text, Blob, and URL
    • 20.6.3.1 About Flex Attributes of Type Text
    • 20.6.3.2 About Flex Attributes of Type Blob
    • 20.6.3.3 Creating a BlobServer URL
    • 20.6.3.4 Getting and Displaying the Value of a Blob Flex Attribute
  • 20.6.4 Examples of Assetsets with Multiple Products (Flex Assets)
    • 20.6.4.1 Creating a Searchstate and Apply it to an Assetset
    • 20.6.4.2 Displaying the Number of Assets in the Assetset
    • 20.6.4.3 Displaying the Colors That the Jeans Are Available In
    • 20.6.4.4 Displaying Both the Colors and the Styles for the Jeans in the Assetset
    • 20.6.4.5 Creating a Table That Displays All the Jeans and Their Attribute Values
    • 20.6.4.6 Searching for Jeans Based on a Range of Prices
    • 20.6.4.7 Searching for Jeans with a Wildcard for Color
    • 20.6.4.8 Searching for Jeans with Specific Colors
• 20.7 Creating URLs for Hyperlinks
  • 20.7.1 RENDER.GETPAGEURL (render:getpageurl)
  • 20.7.2 RENDER.SATELLITEBLOB (render:satelliteblob)
  • 20.7.3 RENDER.GETBLOBURL (render:getbloburl)
  • 20.7.4 Using the referURL Variable
• 20.8 Handling Error Conditions
  • 20.8.1 Using the Errno Variable
  • 20.8.2 Ensuring that Incorrect Pages Are Not Cached
• 20.9 Encoding Page Arguments
• 20.10 What You May Need to Know About Securing Your Site Against XSS Attacks

21 Coding Templates for In-Context and Presentation Editing

• 21.1 Coding Templates for In-Context Content Editing
  • 21.1.1 Attribute Data Types
  • 21.1.2 Making String Fields Editable
    • 21.1.2.1 Variants of the <insite:edit/> Tag
  • 21.1.3 Making Text Fields Editable
  • 21.1.4 Making Date Fields Editable
    • 21.1.4.1 Date Formatting APIs
    • 21.1.4.2 Enabling Date Fields for Editing in Web Mode
  • 21.1.5 Making Binary Fields Editable
  • 21.1.6 Making Asset Fields Editable
    • 21.1.6.1 Editing an Association
    • 21.1.6.2 Editing a Parent Asset
  • 21.1.7 Number Fields
  • 21.1.8 Multivalued Fields
    • 21.1.8.1 Example 1: Editing Multivalued Text Fields
    • 21.1.8.2 Example 2: Modifying Multivalued Text Fields
    • 21.1.8.3 Specifying a Different Ordering
    • 21.1.8.4 Editing Mode and Caching
• 21.2 Coding Templates for Presentation Editing
  • 21.2.1 Selecting a Different Layout for the Entire Web Page
  • 21.2.2 Selecting a Different Layout for a Page Fragment
    • 21.2.2.1 Defining a Slot for Presentation Editing
    • 21.2.2.2 Adjusting the Slot Title
    • 21.2.2.3 Controlling Template Arguments
  • 21.2.3 Editing Presentation and Content Simultaneously
    • 21.2.3.1 Understanding Content-Editable Slots and Presentation-Editable Slots
    • 21.2.3.2 Combining Content-Editable Slots and Presentation-Editable Slots
  • 21.2.4 Understanding the Context System Variable
    • 21.2.4.1 About Defining the Scope of the Slot
    • 21.2.4.2 Using the Context Variable in Action
    • 21.2.4.3 Initializing the Context Value
    • 21.2.4.4 Overriding Context
    • 21.2.4.5 Caching Context
  • 21.2.5 Using Slots with CSElement and SiteEntry Assets
    • 21.2.5.1 Defining a Slot Containing a CSElement Asset
    • 21.2.5.2 When to Use CSElement or SiteEntry Assets
    • 21.2.5.3 About Defining Legal Arguments
    • 21.2.5.4 Consideration About Using Nested Slots
  • 21.2.6 Constraining Asset Types
  • 21.2.7 Preventing CSS and JavaScript Conflicts
• 21.3 Enabling Content Creation for Web Mode
  • 21.3.1 Defining a Start Menu for In-Context Creation
  • 21.3.2 Providing Layout Templates for In-Context Creation
    • 21.3.2.1 Adjusting Stylesheets
    • 21.3.2.2 Adjusting Stylesheets for Slots
  • 21.3.3 Providing Empty Value Indicators
  • 21.3.4 Providing Editing-Specific Presentation Logic

22 Template Element Examples for Basic Assets

• 22.1 Creating Basic Modular Design
  • 22.1.1 Home Element
  • 22.1.2 MainStoryList Element
  • 22.1.3 LeadSummary Element
  • 22.1.4 TeaserSummary Element
  • 22.1.5 Back to LeadSummary
  • 22.1.6 Back to MainStoryList
  • 22.1.7 Back to Home
• 22.2 Coding Links to the Article Assets in a Collection Asset
  • 22.2.1 SectionFront Element
  • 22.2.2 PlainList Element
• 22.3 Using the ct Variable
  • 22.3.1 SectionFront Element
  • 22.3.2 TextOnlyLink Element
  • 22.3.3 ColumnistFront
• 22.4 Coding Templates for Query Assets
  • 22.4.1 Home Element
  • 22.4.2 WireFeedBox Element
  • 22.4.3 ExecuteQuery Element
  • 22.4.4 Back to WireFeedBox
• 22.5 Displaying an Article Asset Without a Template
  • 22.5.1 Full Element
  • 22.5.2 AltVersionBlock Element
  • 22.5.3 EmailFront Element
• 22.6 Displaying Site Navigation Information
  • 22.6.1 Home Element
  • 22.6.2 SiteBanner Element
  • 22.6.3 TopSiteBar Element
    • 22.6.3.1 Creating the Link for the Home Page
    • 22.6.3.2 Creating the Links to the Home Page's Child Pages
  • 22.6.4 Back to SiteBanner
• 22.7 Displaying Non-Asset Information
  • 22.7.1 Home Element
  • 22.7.2 ShowMainDate Element

23 Creating Collection Assets, Query Assets, and Page Assets

• 23.1 About Creating Assets
• 23.2 Creating Collection Assets
  • 23.2.1 Before You Begin
  • 23.2.2 Creating a Collection Asset
  • 23.2.3 Sharing a Collection Asset
• 23.3 Creating Query Assets
  • 23.3.1 How to Use Query Assets and Other Assets
  • 23.3.2 How to Store the Query
  • 23.3.3 Commonly Used Fields for Queries
  • 23.3.4 Before You Begin Creating Query Assets
  • 23.3.5 Creating a Query Asset
  • 23.3.6 Sharing Query Assets
  • 23.3.7 Previewing and Approving Query Assets
• 23.4 Creating Page Assets
  • 23.4.1 Understanding the Page Asset Model
  • 23.4.2 How To Design Page Attributes
  • 23.4.3 How to Create a Page Asset
  • 23.4.4 How To Place Page Assets
  • 23.4.5 How To Move Page Assets in the Site Tree
    • 23.4.5.1 Reordering Child Pages
    • 23.4.5.2 Changing Parent Pages
  • 23.4.6 Considerations About Placing Page Assets and Workflow
  • 23.4.7 Tips About Editing Page Assets
  • 23.4.8 Considerations About Deleting Page Assets

24 Best Practices for Creating Future Site Preview Assets and Templates

• 24.1 About Implementing Future Site Preview
• 24.2 Creating Sets of Assets
• 24.3 Writing Templates for Future Site Preview
  • 24.3.1 The asset:filterassetsbydate Tag
  • 24.3.2 The Input List
• 24.4 Caching Considerations

25 Configuring Sites for Multilingual Support

• 25.1 About Configuring a Site for Multilingual Support
  • 25.1.1 Dimensions
  • 25.1.2 Dimension Sets
  • 25.1.3 Cross-Site Multilingual Support
  • 25.1.4 Master Assets, Translations, and Multilingual Sets
  • 25.1.5 Translations and Asset Relationships
  • 25.1.6 Approval Dependencies
• 25.2 Working with Locale Filtering
  • 25.2.1 Options for Implementing Asset Relationships Through Locale Filtering
  • 25.2.2 Understanding the Included Locale Filters
    • 25.2.2.1 The Simple Filter
    • 25.2.2.2 The SimpleLookup Filter
    • 25.2.2.3 The Hierarchical Filter
  • 25.2.3 About Using Custom Locale Filters
  • 25.2.4 Accounting for Compositional Dependencies
    • 25.2.4.1 Asset Lookup Chain
    • 25.2.4.2 Caching Rules
  • 25.2.5 About Adding Filtering Support to Your Site
    • 25.2.5.1 About Adding Filtering to Templates
    • 25.2.5.2 About Obtaining and Maintaining a Visitor's Locale Preference
    • 25.2.5.3 About Filtering Search Results
• 25.3 Planning Multilingual Support for a Site
• 25.4 Configuring Multilingual Support for a Site
  • 25.4.1 Configuration Quick Reference
  • 25.4.2 Enabling the Dimension and DimensionSet Asset Types
  • 25.4.3 Enabling the Locale Subtype of the Dimension Asset Type
  • 25.4.4 How To Create a Locale
  • 25.4.5 How to Share a Locale to Another Site
  • 25.4.6 How To Create and Configure a Dimension Set
  • 25.4.7 How To Share a Dimension Set to Another Site
  • 25.4.8 How To Configure a Locale Filter
  • 25.4.9 How to Configure the Fallback Hierarchy of the Hierarchical Filter
  • 25.4.10 How to Bulk-Assign a Default Locale to Assets in a Site
    • 25.4.10.1 Sample Element Code for Bulk-Assigning a Default Locale
• 25.5 Tips for Using WebCenter Sites Translation Mechanism
  • 25.5.1 What Do Customers Want?
  • 25.5.2 Use of WebCenter Sites Translation Mechanism to Effectively Meet Customers' Requirements

Part IV Developing Mobile Websites

26 Configuring WebCenter Sites to Support Mobile Websites

• 26.1 Prerequisites for Mobility Developers
• 26.2 Understanding Key Mobility Concepts
  • 26.2.1 About Device Repository
  • 26.2.2 About Device Groups and Suffixes
  • 26.2.3 About Device Assets
  • 26.2.4 About Site Navigations
  • 26.2.5 About Mobile Templates
• 26.3 Prerequisites for Configuring Mobility Features
• 26.4 Configuring Mobility Features
  • 26.4.1 How to Configure the Device Repository
  • 26.4.2 How to Create Custom Filters for Device Group Criteria
    • 26.4.2.1 Using the Default DefaultCustomFIlter.java Custom Filter Provided with WebCenter Sites
    • 26.4.2.2 Creating Your Own DeviceGroupFilter Implementation
  • 26.4.3 How to Activate Your Device Repository
  • 26.4.4 How to Configure Device Groups
  • 26.4.5 How to Prioritize Device Groups
  • 26.4.6 How to Create Device Assets
  • 26.4.7 How to Create Site Navigations
  • 26.4.8 How to Organize Site Navigations
• 26.5 Mirror Publishing the Device Repository to Delivery System
• 26.6 Creating Templates
  • 26.6.1 Basic Guidelines for Creating Template Variants
  • 26.6.2 Understanding Mobility Tags
  • 26.6.3 Tags Modified to Support Device Detection and Page Rendering
  • 26.6.4 Creating Template Variants
    • 26.6.4.1 How to Create a Variant of a Single Template
    • 26.6.4.2 How to Create Template Variants in Bulk
• 26.7 Optimizing Images for Mobile Websites
  • 26.7.1 How to Optimize Images Using the Image Optimization Filter
    • 26.7.1.1 Create a Flex Filter of the ImageOptimizationFilter Type
    • 26.7.1.2 Include the Filter in Your Site's Image Definition
    • 26.7.1.3 Create Instances of the blob Type Attribute Asset
    • 26.7.1.4 Set Image Properties for Optimization
    • 26.7.1.5 Apply the Image Optimization Filter on Existing Images
    • 26.7.1.6 Verify If the Image Optimization Filter Has Been Applied
    • 26.7.1.7 Use the Optimized Images in Your Site
  • 26.7.2 How to Optimize Images Using a Pluggable Interface
• 26.8 How Device Detection Works

Part V Coding with Developer Tools

27 About Developer Tools

• 27.1 Introduction to Developer Tools Architecture
• 27.2 IDE Integration
• 27.3 The Developer Tools Workspace
• 27.4 Connecting to WebCenter Sites Instances
• 27.5 Synchronization
• 27.6 JSP Management
• 27.7 Command Line Interface (CLI)
• 27.8 About Using a Version Control System

28 Installing and Configuring Developer Tools

• 28.1 Prerequisites
• 28.2 Setting Up Developer Tools
  • 28.2.1 How to Install the Developer Tools Plug-in
  • 28.2.2 How to Verify the Developer Tools Plug-In Installation
  • 28.2.3 How to Integrate WebCenter Sites with the Eclipse IDE
  • 28.2.4 How to Enable Code Completion for Remote Hosts
  • 28.2.5 How to Use Developer Tools to Work with Existing Resources
  • 28.2.6 How to Manage WebCenter Sites Resources
  • 28.2.7 How to Work with a Pre-Existing Project in Eclipse
• 28.3 Updating Developer Tools
  • 28.3.1 How to Update the Location of the Developer Tools Plug-In
  • 28.3.2 How to Check for Updates to Existing Plug-Ins
  • 28.3.3 How To Verify That the Developer Tools Plug-In Has Been Updated
• 28.4 Managing WebCenter Sites Resources in Eclipse
  • 28.4.1 How to Create Resources
  • 28.4.2 How to Display Developer Tools Views in Panels
  • 28.4.3 How to Export and Import Data Between WebCenter Sites and Developer Tools
• 28.5 Uninstalling Developer Tools

29 Introducing Developer Tools Features in Eclipse

• 29.1 About the Oracle WebCenter Sites Perspective
• 29.2 Understanding the Configuration Form
• 29.3 Understanding Projects and Workspaces in Eclipse
• 29.4 About Developer Tools Views
  • 29.4.1 Workspace
  • 29.4.2 Log Viewer
  • 29.4.3 Templates View
  • 29.4.4 Preview View
  • 29.4.5 Sites View
  • 29.4.6 Controllers View
  • 29.4.7 Logging Configuration View
  • 29.4.8 Developer Reference View
  • 29.4.9 Wizards
• 29.5 Data Synchronization (Export/Import) Tool
  • 29.5.1 Export (Sync Resources to Workspace from WebCenter Sites)
  • 29.5.2 Import (Sync Resources to WebCenter Sites from the Workspace)

30 Developing JSPs with Developer Tools

• 30.1 JSP Development with Developer Tools
• 30.2 Tag and Java API Completion
• 30.3 Debugging

31 Creating Templates for Mobile Websites Using Developer Tools

• 31.1 About Mobility Support in Developer Tools
• 31.2 Creating Mobile Templates from the Sites Workspace Tab
• 31.3 Creating Mobile Templates in Sites and Device Groups Views

32 Synchronizing and Exchanging Data Using Developer Tools

• 32.1 Synchronization Using Developer Tools
• 32.2 Synchronization Scenarios
• 32.3 About Dependency Resolution
• 32.4 ID Mapping
  • 32.4.1 About ID Mapping
  • 32.4.2 Overriding a Resource's fw_uid
  • 32.4.3 What You Should Know About Using Developer Tools with Pre-Existing Resources
• 32.5 Working with Site Mappings
  • 32.5.1 About Natural Site Mappings
  • 32.5.2 About Overriding Natural Site Mappings With the Command Line Interface (CLI)

33 Using Workspaces in Developer Tools

• 33.1 Introduction to Workspaces
• 33.2 Workspace Structure
• 33.3 Asset Storage Structure
• 33.4 Code-Based Resource Storage Structure
• 33.5 Attribute Editor Storage Structure
• 33.6 Asset Type Storage Structure

34 Using Developer Tools Command Line Interface (CLI)

• 34.1 Running and Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
• 34.2 Example Commands
• 34.3 About Importing Modules
• 34.4 Status Codes for Operations Invoked from the Developer Tools Command Line Interface (CLI)

35 Integrating Developer Tools Workspaces with Version Control Systems

• 35.1 About Version Control With Developer Tools
• 35.2 About Integrating Developer Tools With a VCS
• 35.3 Using a Developer Tools-Integrated VCS: Example

36 Using Developer Tools to Manage and Exchange Resources

• 36.1 Today: Develop a Site and Associated Resources
• 36.2 Three Days Later... Deployment

37 Using the Developer Tools Command Line Interface (CLI) to Create Reusable Modules

• 37.1 Creating a Reusable Model
• 37.2 List the Resources in the WebCenter Sites Instance
• 37.3 List Start Menu Items
• 37.4 Export All Resources to a Workspace
• 37.5 Inspect the Module's Content
• 37.6 Archive the Module
• 37.7 Import the Module to a WebCenter Sites Instance

Part VI Managing Caching

38 Understanding Page Design and Caching

• 38.1 About Modular Page Design
• 38.2 About Caching
  • 38.2.1 WebCenter Sites Caching
  • 38.2.2 BlobServer and Caching
  • 38.2.3 Satellite Server Caching
    • 38.2.3.1 Cache Expiration
    • 38.2.3.2 Caching with the Satellite Servlet
    • 38.2.3.3 Viewing the Contents of the Satellite Server Cache
      • 38.2.3.3.1 CacheManager
      • 38.2.3.3.2 The SiteCatalog Table
      • 38.2.3.3.3 The Cache Key
      • 38.2.3.3.4 Caching Properties
      • 38.2.3.3.5 Page Caching Properties
      • 38.2.3.3.6 Satellite Server Properties
• 38.3 Double-Buffered Caching
  • 38.3.1 About Implementing Double-Buffered Caching
    • 38.3.1.1 Pagelet Caching Strategies
  • 38.3.2 Setting cscacheinfo
  • 38.3.3 Coding for Caching
  • 38.3.4 Caching and Security
    • 38.3.4.1 WebCenter Sites Security
    • 38.3.4.2 Satellite Server Security

39 Working with Resultset Caching and Queries

• 39.1 About Resultset Caching and Queries
• 39.2 Caching Frameworks
• 39.3 Database Queries
• 39.4 How Resultset Caching Works
• 39.5 Reducing the Load on the Database
• 39.6 Specifying the Table Name
  • 39.6.1 SELECTTO
  • 39.6.2 EXECSQL
  • 39.6.3 CALLSQL
  • 39.6.4 Search Forms in the WebCenter Sites Interface
  • 39.6.5 Query Asset
  • 39.6.6 SEARCHSTATE
• 39.7 Flushing the Resultset Cache
• 39.8 Switching Between Caching Frameworks
• 39.9 About Resultset Caching Strategy and Properties
  • 39.9.1 Planning Your Resultset Caching Strategy
  • 39.9.2 Default Properties
  • 39.9.3 Table-Specific Properties

40 Using Cache Management with WebCenter Sites

• 40.1 About the WebCenter Sites Rendering Engine Cache
• 40.2 About the CacheManager
• 40.3 Enabling CacheManager
  • 40.3.1 Tier 1 Cache Configuration Properties
  • 40.3.2 Tier 2 Cache Configuration Properties

41 Using Advanced Page Caching Techniques

• 41.1 About Advanced Page Caching
• 41.2 Configuring the WebCenter Sites Cache
  • 41.2.1 Configuring Maximum Cache Size
  • 41.2.2 Setting Expiration Time for an Individual Entry
  • 41.2.3 Explicitly Removing Entries from Cache
    • 41.2.3.1 Manual Removal
    • 41.2.3.2 Automatic Removal
• 41.3 Configuring the Blob Server Cache
  • 41.3.1 Consideration About Configuring Maximum Cache Size
  • 41.3.2 Setting Expiration Time for an Individual Entry
  • 41.3.3 Explicitly Removing Entries from Cache
    • 41.3.3.1 Manual Removal
    • 41.3.3.2 Automatic Removal
• 41.4 Configuring the Satellite Server Cache
  • 41.4.1 Configuring Maximum Cache Size
  • 41.4.2 Explicitly Removing Entries from Cache
• 41.5 CacheInfo String Syntax
• 41.6 Caching Best Practices
  • 41.6.1 Few Pagelets Per Page
  • 41.6.2 Share Cache Between Pages

Part VII Migrating Your Work to Your Content Management System

42 Importing Assets of Any Type

• 42.1 About Importing Assets Using the XMLPost Utility
  • 42.1.1 What the Developer Does
  • 42.1.2 What XMLPost and WebCenter Sites Do
• 42.2 Using XMLPost Configuration Files
  • 42.2.1 Configuration Properties for XMLPost
  • 42.2.2 Configuration Properties for the Posting Element
  • 42.2.3 Configuration Properties for the Source Files
    • 42.2.3.1 Site Properties
    • 42.2.3.2 Asset Type Properties
  • 42.2.4 Sample XMLPost Configuration File
• 42.3 Using XMLPost Source Files
  • 42.3.1 Sample XMLPost Source File
  • 42.3.2 XMLPost and File Encoding
• 42.4 Using the XMLPost Utility
  • 42.4.1 Before You Begin
  • 42.4.2 Running XMLPost from the Command Line
  • 42.4.3 Identifying Source Files
    • 42.4.3.1 A Single File
    • 42.4.3.2 A Directory of Files
    • 42.4.3.3 A List File
  • 42.4.4 Running XMLPost as a Batch Process
  • 42.4.5 Running XMLPost Programmatically
• 42.5 Customizing RemoteContentPost and PreUpdate
  • 42.5.1 Setting a Field Value Programmatically
  • 42.5.2 Setting an Asset Association
• 42.6 Troubleshooting XMLPost
  • 42.6.1 XMLPost Does Not Run and Does Not Create a Log File Message
  • 42.6.2 XMLPost Fails and there is a Missing Entity Statement in the Log File
  • 42.6.3 Error 105 is Triggered when XMLPost Tries to Save an Asset
  • 42.6.4 Debugging the Posting Element

43 Importing Flex Assets

• 43.1 About Importing Flex Assets
  • 43.1.1 Before You Begin Importing the Data Structure Flex Asset Types
  • 43.1.2 About Importing the Flex Assets
    • 43.1.2.1 When to Use BulkLoader
    • 43.1.2.2 When to Use XMLPost
  • 43.1.3 Overview of the Process to Import Flex Assets
  • 43.1.4 About Custom Data Delimiters
• 43.2 Understanding XMLPost and the Flex Asset Model
• 43.3 About Importing the Structural Asset Types in the Flex Model
  • 43.3.1 Attribute Editors
    • 43.3.1.1 Sample Configuration File: Attribute Editor
    • 43.3.1.2 Sample Source File: Attribute Editor
  • 43.3.2 Flex Attributes
    • 43.3.2.1 Sample Configuration File: Flex Attribute
    • 43.3.2.2 Sample Source File: Attribute
  • 43.3.3 Flex Definitions and Flex Parent Definitions: Sample Files
    • 43.3.3.1 Sample Configuration File: Flex Definition
    • 43.3.3.2 Sample Source File: Flex Definition
  • 43.3.4 Flex Parents
    • 43.3.4.1 Sample Configuration File: Individual Flex Parent
    • 43.3.4.2 Sample Source File: Individual Flex Parent
• 43.4 Importing Flex Assets with XMLPost
  • 43.4.1 Configuration File Properties and Source File Tags for Flex Assets
    • 43.4.1.1 For the addData Posting Element
    • 43.4.1.2 For the RemoteContentPost Posting Element
  • 43.4.2 Sample Flex Asset Configuration File for addData
  • 43.4.3 Configuration File Properties and Attributes of Type Blob (or URL)
    • 43.4.3.1 Attribute of Type Blob (or URL) As an Upload Field
    • 43.4.3.2 Attribute of Type Blob (or URL) As a Text Field
  • 43.4.4 Sample Flex Asset Source File for addData
    • 43.4.4.1 Sample File
    • 43.4.4.2 Handling Special Characters
    • 43.4.4.3 Flex Assets and Their Parents
    • 43.4.4.4 Specifying the Parents of a Flex Asset
    • 43.4.4.5 Setting Attribute Values for Parents
    • 43.4.4.6 Setting Multiple Values in a Flex Source File
  • 43.4.5 Sample Flex Asset Configuration File for RemoteContentPost
  • 43.4.6 Sample Flex Asset Source File for RemoteContentPost
• 43.5 Editing Flex Assets with XMLPost
  • 43.5.1 Configuration Files for Editing Flex Assets
  • 43.5.2 Source Files for Editing Flex Assets
    • 43.5.2.1 Changing the Value of an Attribute
    • 43.5.2.2 Removing an Attribute Value
    • 43.5.2.3 Editing Parent Relationships
• 43.6 Deleting Assets with XMLPost
  • 43.6.1 Configuration Files for Deleting Assets
  • 43.6.2 Source Files for Deleting Assets

44 Importing Flex Assets with the BulkLoader Utility

• 44.1 About the BulkLoader Utility
  • 44.1.1 Understanding BulkLoader Features
  • 44.1.2 How BulkLoader Works
  • 44.1.3 About Using the BulkLoader Utility
  • 44.1.4 Importing Flex Assets from Flat Tables
    • 44.1.4.1 The Basic Steps
    • 44.1.4.2 Driver Requirements
    • 44.1.4.3 Requirement for DB2
  • 44.1.5 When to Use XMLPost to Import Structural Assets
  • 44.1.6 Creating the Input Table (Data Source)
    • 44.1.6.1 Inserts
    • 44.1.6.2 Updates
  • 44.1.7 Creating the Mapping Table
  • 44.1.8 Creating the BulkLoader Configuration File
    • 44.1.8.1 BulkLoader Configuration File Properties
    • 44.1.8.2 Setting the initID Parameter
    • 44.1.8.3 Example Configuration File
  • 44.1.9 Running the BulkLoader Utility
  • 44.1.10 Enabling Access to Imported Assets in the Contributor Interface
  • 44.1.11 Reviewing Feedback Information
  • 44.1.12 Approving and Publishing the Assets to the Delivery System
• 44.2 Importing Flex Assets Using a Custom Extraction Mechanism
  • 44.2.1 IDataExtract Interface
  • 44.2.2 IPopulateDataSlice
  • 44.2.3 IFeedback Interface
• 44.3 Approving Flex Assets with the BulkApprover Utility
  • 44.3.1 Configuring BulkApprover
  • 44.3.2 Using BulkApprover

Part VIII Security: Managing Content Management Users

45 Managing Users on the Management System

• 45.1 About the Directory Services API
  • 45.1.1 Entries
  • 45.1.2 Hierarchies
  • 45.1.3 Groups
  • 45.1.4 Directory Services Tags
  • 45.1.5 Directory Operations
    • 45.1.5.1 Searching
    • 45.1.5.2 Looking Up a User
    • 45.1.5.3 Listing Users
    • 45.1.5.4 Directory Services Code Samples
  • 45.1.6 Error Handling
  • 45.1.7 Directory Services Applications Troubleshooting
• 45.2 Working with Custom User Manager
  • 45.2.1 What is Custom User Manager?
  • 45.2.2 Sample Implementation of Custom User Manager
  • 45.2.3 Integrating the Sample Implementation with WebCenter Sites
  • 45.2.4 What You May Need to Know About the Custom User Manager
• 45.3 Controlling User Access
  • 45.3.1 ACL Tags
  • 45.3.2 USER Tags
  • 45.3.3 WebCenter Sites and Encryption

Part IX Publishing Your Site

46 Publishing Your Content Management Site to Make it Available Online

Part X Developing Personalized and Targeted Websites with Engage

47 Creating Visitor Data Assets

• 47.1 About Visitor Data Assets
  • 47.1.1 Visitor Attributes
  • 47.1.2 History Attributes and History Definitions
  • 47.1.3 Segments
  • 47.1.4 Developing Visitor Data Assets: Process Overview
• 47.2 Creating Visitor Data Assets
  • 47.2.1 Creating Visitor Attributes
    • 47.2.1.1 Configure the Data Type
    • 47.2.1.2 Configure the Constraint Criteria
    • 47.2.1.3 Save the Attribute
  • 47.2.2 Creating History Attributes
    • 47.2.2.1 Configure the Constraint Criteria
    • 47.2.2.2 Save the History Attribute
  • 47.2.3 Creating History Definitions
• 47.3 Verifying Visitor Data Assets
• 47.4 Approving Visitor Data Assets

48 Understanding Recommendation Assets

• 48.1 About Recommendation Assets
• 48.2 Development Process for Setting Up Recommendations
• 48.3 About Creating a Dynamic List Element

49 Working with Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking

• 49.1 About Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking
  • 49.1.1 Database-Centric Model
  • 49.1.2 Memory-Centric Model
• 49.2 Enabling Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking
  • 49.2.1 Visitor Tracking Property
  • 49.2.2 Supporting Code
  • 49.2.3 Batch-Saving History Attributes to the Database
• 49.3 How Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking Works
  • 49.3.1 Visitor Detection
  • 49.3.2 Retrieval of Scalar Values
  • 49.3.3 Collection of History Attribute Values
  • 49.3.4 Computation of Sums and Counts
  • 49.3.5 Computation of Segments
  • 49.3.6 Display of Recommended Assets
  • 49.3.7 Logging of Dependencies

50 Coding Engage Pages

• 50.1 Commerce Context and Visitor Context
• 50.2 Identification of Visitors and Linking Sessions
• 50.3 Collection of Visitor Data
• 50.4 Coding of Site Pages That Collect Visitor Data
  • 50.4.1 Example 1: Visitor Attributes
  • 50.4.2 Example 2: History Definition
  • 50.4.3 Example 3: Visitor Attribute of Type Binary
• 50.5 Templates and Recommendations
  • 50.5.1 Creating Templates for Recommendations
  • 50.5.2 Creation of Templates for Recommendations Using Oracle Real-Time Decisions
• 50.6 What You May Need to Know About Shopping Carts and Engage
• 50.7 Debugging Site Pages
  • 50.7.1 Session Links
  • 50.7.2 Visitor Data Collection
  • 50.7.3 Recommendations and Promotions

Part XI Running A/B Testing

51 Developing for A/B Testing

• 51.1 A/B Testing Prerequisites
• 51.2 Scripting Templates for A/B Testing
• 51.3 Updating Cache Criteria for A/B Testing
• 51.4 Viewing A/B Test Details as JSON
• 51.5 Understanding Confidence Algorithms

Part XII Customizing Blogs

52 Customizing Blog Components

• 52.1 Customizing the Blog Asset Form
  • 52.1.1 Creating a Blog Attribute
  • 52.1.2 Adding a Blog Attribute to the Blog Asset Definition
• 52.2 Adding Blog Functionality to CM Sites
  • 52.2.1 Creating Blog Pages
  • 52.2.2 Adding Blog Code
  • 52.2.3 Adding Blog Parameters to Your Site's SiteEntry Asset
• 52.3 Customizing URLs for the RSS Feed

Part XIII Developing WebCenter Sites: Visitor Services

53 Developing WebCenter Sites: Visitor Services

• 53.1 Visitor Services Overview
• 53.2 Configuring the Visitor Services URL
• 53.3 Configuring an Identity Provider
  • 53.3.1 Configuring Identity Provider Settings
  • 53.3.2 Integrating Oracle Access Manager (OAM) with Visitor Services
  • 53.3.3 Creating a Custom Identity Provider: Example
• 53.4 Configuring an Access Provider
• 53.5 Configuring One or More Profile Providers
  • 53.5.1 Configuring Profile Provider Settings and Enrichment Rules
    • 53.5.1.1 About Configuring Eloqua Profile Provider
  • 53.5.2 Creating a Custom Profile Provider: Example
• 53.6 Creating One or More Aggregation Templates
• 53.7 Optimizing Experiences Using Visitor Services Data 
  • 53.7.1 How WebCenter Sites Components Request Visitor Services Profile Information
  • 53.7.2 Configuring Visitor Services with Engage
  • 53.7.3 Linking Visitor Profiles and Managing Cookies
  • 53.7.4 Storing Additional Information with Extended Attributes and Activities
    • 53.7.4.1 About Extended Attributes and Activities
    • 53.7.4.2 How to Use Extended Attributes and Activities in Visitor Services
• 53.8 Visitor Services Reference
  • 53.8.1 About the Visitor Services Architecture
  • 53.8.2 Identity Provider Reference
    • 53.8.2.1 About the Identity Providers
    • 53.8.2.2 How Visitor Services Identifies Visitors to Your Website
  • 53.8.3 Access Provider Reference
    • 53.8.3.1 About Container Protection and Visitor Services Protection
    • 53.8.3.2 How Container Protection Works
    • 53.8.3.3 How Visitor Services Protection Works
  • 53.8.4 Profile Provider Reference
    • 53.8.4.1 About the Profile Providers and Enrichment Service
      • 53.8.4.1.1 Profile Providers
      • 53.8.4.1.2 Enrichment Service
      • 53.8.4.1.3 How Profile Provider and Enrichment Services Work
    • 53.8.4.2 How Visitor Services Gathers and Enriches Visitor Attributes from Multiple Channels
  • 53.8.5 Aggregation Template Reference
    • 53.8.5.1 About Aggregation Templates
      • 53.8.5.1.1 How the Aggregation Service Works
    • 53.8.5.2 How Visitor Services Merges Raw Visitor Profiles into a Single Aggregated Profile
    • 53.8.5.3 How Visitor Services Makes Aggregated Visitor Profiles Available for Targeting, Testing, and Analysis
  • 53.8.6 About the Visitor Services Data Model
  • 53.8.7 Glossary

Part XIV Enabling Convergence between Eloqua and Oracle WebCenter Sites

54 Integrating Eloqua Cloud Marketing Service with Oracle WebCenter Sites

• 54.1 Eloqua Integration Overview
  • 54.1.1 Integrating Cloud Marketing Services with WebCenter Sites
  • 54.1.2 Accessing Eloqua Documentation
• 54.2 Accessing WebCenter Sites Content in Eloqua
  • 54.2.1 Configuring Eloqua for Access to the WebCenter Sites Content Service
  • 54.2.2 Configuring OAuth Authentication
  • 54.2.3 Making WebCenter Sites Assets Available within Eloqua
    • 54.2.3.1 Creating Asset Rendering Templates for Eloqua
    • 54.2.3.2 Configuring Asset Type Visibility in Eloqua
  • 54.2.4 Placing WebCenter Sites Content into Eloqua E-Mails and Landing Pages
• 54.3 Accessing Eloqua Forms in WebCenter Sites
  • 54.3.1 Specifying the Eloqua Instance Connection Parameters
  • 54.3.2 Enabling the EloquaForm Proxy Asset Type
  • 54.3.3 Registering the Eloqua Firehose Service
  • 54.3.4 Configuring the Form Deletion Notification
  • 54.3.5 Creating the Rendering Template for the EloquaForm Assets
  • 54.3.6 Placing Eloqua Forms on WebCenter Sites Pages

Part XV Controlling the Site Capture Process

55 Coding the Crawler Configuration File

• 55.1 About Controlling a Crawler
• 55.2 BaseConfigurator Methods
  • 55.2.1 getStartUri
  • 55.2.2 createLinkExtractor
• 55.3 Crawler Customization Methods
  • 55.3.1 getMaxLinks
  • 55.3.2 getMaxCrawlDepth
  • 55.3.3 getConnectionTimeout
• 55.4 getSocketTimeout
• 55.5 getPostExecutionCommand
• 55.6 getNumWorkers
• 55.7 getUserAgent
• 55.8 createResourceRewriter
• 55.9 createMailer
• 55.10 getProxyHost
• 55.11 getProxyCredentials
• 55.12 Interfaces
  • 55.12.1 LinkExtractor
    • 55.12.1.1 LinkExtractor Interface
    • 55.12.1.2 Using the Default Implementation of LinkExtractor
    • 55.12.1.3 Writing and Deploying a Custom Link Extractor
  • 55.12.2 ResourceRewriter
    • 55.12.2.1 ResourceRewriter Interface
    • 55.12.2.2 Using the Default Implementations of ResourceRewriter
    • 55.12.2.3 Writing a Custom ResourceRewriter
  • 55.12.3 Mailer
    • 55.12.3.1 Mailer Interface
    • 55.12.3.2 Using the Default Implementation of Mailer
    • 55.12.3.3 Writing a Custom Mailer
• 55.13 Summary of Methods and Interfaces
  • 55.13.1 Methods
  • 55.13.2 Interfaces

Part XVI Integrating with Third-Party Content Sources

56 Integrating Third-Party Content Sources Using Proxy Assets

• 56.1 Proxy Asset Architecture and the Contributor Interface
• 56.2 Installing Sample Proxy Assets
  • 56.2.1 Set up a Proxy Asset Directory
  • 56.2.2 Create a Proxy Asset
  • 56.2.3 Add the Search Functionality for the Proxy Asset
  • 56.2.4 Add the Thumbnail Grid Functionality for the Proxy Asset
  • 56.2.5 Add the Tree Functionality for the Proxy Asset
• 56.3 Integrating External Content in the Contributor Interface
  • 56.3.1 Case Study: The ProxyTest Repository
  • 56.3.2 Registering a New Proxy Asset Type
  • 56.3.3 About Implementing UI Integration Code
  • 56.3.4 Customizing Search
    • 56.3.4.1 Getting Search Results Using the Provided Third-Party API
    • 56.3.4.2 Turning Search Results into Proxy Assets, Filter Incoming Search Results, Register External Content, and Gather Data for Search Grid Widget
    • 56.3.4.3 Building a Data Store for the Grid Widget
    • 56.3.4.4 Testing Custom Search
    • 56.3.4.5 Additional Customizations
  • 56.3.5 Implementing a Custom Tree
    • 56.3.5.1 Registering the Custom Tree Tab
    • 56.3.5.2 Implementing the Tree Code
• 56.4 Setting Up YouTube Proxy Assets
• 56.5 User Interface Customizations
  • 56.5.1 Customizing the Search Start Menu
  • 56.5.2 Customizing the Content Tree
• 56.6 Information About Embedding Proxy Assets in Web Pages
  • 56.6.1 Writing a Template for Proxy Assets
  • 56.6.2 Using Proxy Assets in Slots
  • 56.6.3 About Caching Proxy Assets

Part XVII Developing Applications with the Web Experience Management (WEM) Framework

57 About the Web Experience Management (WEM) Framework

• 57.1 About the WEM Framework
• 57.2 Prerequisites for Application Development
  • 57.2.1 Technologies
  • 57.2.2 WebCenter Sites Interfaces, Objects, and APIs
  • 57.2.3 Documentation
  • 57.2.4 Sample Applications and Files
  • 57.2.5 Application Access
• 57.3 Getting Started

58 Understanding the WEM Framework and Services

• 58.1 Support for Application Development
• 58.2 REST Services
• 58.3 UI Container
  • 58.3.1 Registration
  • 58.3.2 WEM Context Object
• 58.4 Single Sign-On
• 58.5 Authorization Model
• 58.6 Custom Applications
• 58.7 Requirements for REST Resources

59 Working with the Articles Sample Application

• 59.1 About the Articles Sample Application
• 59.2 Launching the Articles Sample Application
  • 59.2.1 Building and Deploying the Articles Application
  • 59.2.2 Registering the Articles Sample Application
• 59.3 Testing the Articles Application

60 Developing Applications with WEM Framework

• 60.1 About the Articles Sample Application's Structure
• 60.2 About the Articles Sample Application's Configuration Files
• 60.3 Making REST Calls
  • 60.3.1 Making REST Calls from JavaScript
  • 60.3.2 Making REST Calls from Java
• 60.4 Constructing URLs to Serve Binary Data
• 60.5 Accessing Parameters from the WEM Framework
  • 60.5.1 Initializing and Using Context Object in the Same Domain
  • 60.5.2 Initializing and Using Context Object for Cross-Domain Applications
  • 60.5.3 Methods Available in Context Object
• 60.6 Registering Applications with Different Views
  • 60.6.1 Registering Applications with an iframe View
  • 60.6.2 Registering Applications with JavaScript and HTML Views
    • 60.6.2.1 Rendering JavaScript View
    • 60.6.2.2 Rendering HTML View

61 Developing Custom REST Resources with WEM Framework

• 61.1 Creating REST Resources for WebCenter Sites and Satellite Server: Example
  • 61.1.1 Building and Deploying the Recommendations Sample Application
  • 61.1.2 Testing the Recommendations Sample Application
• 61.2 Creating REST Resources
  • 61.2.1 About the Recommendations Sample Application's Structure
  • 61.2.2 Implementing Custom REST Resources

62 Working with Single Sign-On for Production Sites

• 62.1 Deploying the SSO Sample Application
• 62.2 Understanding SSO Sample Application's Structure
• 62.3 Implementing Single Sign-On
• 62.4 Implementing Single Sign-Out

63 Using REST Resources with the WEM Framework

• 63.1 Authentication for REST Resources
  • 63.1.1 Acquiring Tickets from Java Code
  • 63.1.2 Acquiring Tickets from Other Programming Languages (Over HTTP)
  • 63.1.3 Using Tickets and Multitickets
  • 63.1.4 SSO Configuration for Standalone Applications
    • 63.1.4.1 Beans and Properties
    • 63.1.4.2 Query Parameters Processed by SSO Filter
• 63.2 About Configuring CAS
• 63.3 REST Authorization
  • 63.3.1 Security Model
  • 63.3.2 Use of the Security Model to Access REST Resources
  • 63.3.3 About Configuring REST Security
  • 63.3.4 Privilege Resolution Algorithm
• 63.4 Management of Assets Over REST

64 Introducing Customizable Single Sign-On Facility in WEM Framework

• 64.1 About Customizing Login Behavior for the WEM Framework
• 64.2 About Components of the Default CSSO Implementation
• 64.3 Configuring and Deploying Custom SSO Behavior
  • 64.3.1 About Extending the Default CSSO Classes
  • 64.3.2 Settings Resolver Credentials
  • 64.3.3 About Identifying Your Java Classes to Spring for Instantiation
    • 64.3.3.1 About Creating a Spring Configuration File
    • 64.3.3.2 About Placing Your Spring Configuration File
  • 64.3.4 Mapping External User Identifiers to WebCenter Sites Credentials
  • 64.3.5 Restarting the CAS Web Application
• 64.4 Running the CSSO Sample Implementation
  • 64.4.1 Sample CSSO Classes
  • 64.4.2 Sample Spring Configuration File
    • 64.4.2.1 Analysis of the Sample Spring Configuration File
    • 64.4.2.2 Placing the Sample Spring Configuration File
  • 64.4.3 Sample CSSO Components

65 Buffering in WEM Framework

• 65.1 Architecture of Buffering System
• 65.2 Using Buffering

66 Registering Applications Manually in WEM Framework

• 66.1 Registering Applications in WEM Framework
• 66.2 Reference: Registration Asset Types
  • 66.2.1 FW_View Asset Type
  • 66.2.2 FW_Application Asset Type

Part XVIII Customizing Oracle WebCenter Sites

67 Customizing the Tree in the Admin Interface

• 67.1 About the Tree in the Admin Interface
  • 67.1.1 Loading the Tree Tabs
    • 67.1.1.1 Applet-Wide Parameters
    • 67.1.1.2 Tree-Specific Parameters
    • 67.1.1.3 Node Parameters
    • 67.1.1.4 Adding a Command Node Context Menu
  • 67.1.2 Refreshing the Tree
• 67.2 About Trees and Security
• 67.3 About Tree Error Logging

68 About Customizing Components of the Contributor Interface

• 68.1 Before You Begin
• 68.2 What Can You Customize in the Contributor Interface?
• 68.3 Where to Find Sample Code?
• 68.4 Where to Begin?

69 Understanding the Contributor Interface Framework and UI Controller

• 69.1 About the Contributor Interface Framework
• 69.2 UI Controller
  • 69.2.1 How the UI Controller Processes Requests
  • 69.2.2 UI Controller Processing an Element Request: Example
• 69.3 Custom Elements
  • 69.3.1 Element Storage
  • 69.3.2 How the UI Controller Locates Elements
  • 69.3.3 Element Naming Conventions

70 Customizing the Contributor Interface Dashboard

• 70.1 About Dashboard Customization
• 70.2 Customizing the Dashboard
• 70.3 Examples of Customizing the Dashboard
  • 70.3.1 Adding a Hello World Widget
  • 70.3.2 Adding a Widget that Shows Recently Modified Assets

71 Customizing Search Views of the Contributor Interface

• 71.1 About Search View Customization
  • 71.1.1 Types of Search Views
  • 71.1.2 What You Can Customize in Search Views
  • 71.1.3 View-Rendering Process
  • 71.1.4 Configuration Elements for Search Views
• 71.2 Customization Processes
• 71.3 Customizing Undocked Views
  • 71.3.1 Basic Steps for Customizing Undocked Views
  • 71.3.2 Setting the Default Undocked View to List or Thumbnail
  • 71.3.3 Customizing the Undocked List View
  • 71.3.4 Customizing the Undocked Thumbnail View
    • 71.3.4.1 More About the <assettypes> Section in the ThumbnailViewConfig Element
      • 71.3.4.1.1 Use of Static Icons
      • 71.3.4.1.2 Re-using the System-Defined Image Thumbnail Element
      • 71.3.4.1.3 Using a Custom Thumbnail-Rendering Element
• 71.4 About Customizing Docked Views
• 71.5 Customizing Sort Menus and Tooltips
  • 71.5.1 Customizing Sort Menus
  • 71.5.2 Customizing Tooltips for Search Results
  • 71.5.3 Customizing Context Menus

72 Customizing Global Properties, Toolbar, and Menu Bar in the Contributor Interface

• 72.1 Customizing Global Configuration Properties
  • 72.1.1 About the Configuration Properties
  • 72.1.2 Default Configuration Properties That Can Be Modified
  • 72.1.3 Adding Custom Configuration Properties
    • 72.1.3.1 Adding Custom Global Properties
    • 72.1.3.2 Adding Site-Specific Properties
• 72.2 Customizing the Toolbar
  • 72.2.1 About Toolbar Customization
  • 72.2.2 Examples of Toolbar Customization
    • 72.2.2.1 Customizing the Toolbar with Standard Actions for Web Mode
    • 72.2.2.2 Customizing the Toolbar with Standard Actions for Asset Type and Subtype
    • 72.2.2.3 Customizing the Toolbar with Custom Actions
• 72.3 Customizing the Menu Bar
  • 72.3.1 About Menu Bar Customization
  • 72.3.2 Adding a Custom Action to the Menu Bar
• 72.4 Customizing Context Menus

73 Customizing Asset Forms for the Contributor Interface

• 73.1 About Asset Forms Customization
• 73.2 Modifying the Header of Asset Forms
• 73.3 Building an Attribute Editor
  • 73.3.1 Creating a Dojo Widget and its Template
    • 73.3.1.1 Create a Template for the Dojo Widget
    • 73.3.1.2 Creating a Dojo Widget
  • 73.3.2 Defining the Attribute Editor as a Presentation Object
  • 73.3.3 Creating the Attribute Editor Element
  • 73.3.4 Creating the Attribute Editor
  • 73.3.5 Implementing a Multi-Valued Attribute Editor

74 Customizing Workflow

• 74.1 Workflow Step Conditions
• 74.2 Workflow Actions
  • 74.2.1 Step Action Elements
  • 74.2.2 Timed Action Elements
  • 74.2.3 Deadlock Action Elements
  • 74.2.4 Group Deadlock Action Elements
  • 74.2.5 Delegation Action Elements

75 Working with RealTime Publishing Customization Hooks

• 75.1 About RealTime Publishing
• 75.2 Writing a Custom Transporter
  • 75.2.1 Writing Your Own Transporter
  • 75.2.2 Considerations About Overriding AbstractTransporter Methods
  • 75.2.3 Helper Methods in AbstractTransporter
  • 75.2.4 Implementing a Transporter: Example
  • 75.2.5 Code for Writing RealTime Publishing Transporter
  • 75.2.6 Understanding Edge-Case Scenarios
  • 75.2.7 Intercepting Asset Publishing Events on the Management Instance
  • 75.2.8 Distinguishing Between Unpackers and CacheUpdates

76 Understanding Asset and Publish Events in WebCenter Sites

• 76.1 Asset Events
  • 76.1.1 Writing an Asset Event Listener
  • 76.1.2 Registering an Asset Event Listener
• 76.2 Publishing Events
  • 76.2.1 Writing a Publishing Event Listener
  • 76.2.2 Registering a Publishing Event Listener

77 Customizing Content Audit Reports

• 77.1 About the Content Audit Reports
• 77.2 Customizing the Content Audit Report
  • 77.2.1 Creating a Custom Chart for the Content Audit Report
    • 77.2.1.1 Create a Chart Asset
    • 77.2.1.2 Create Rendering Elements to Implement the Chart
    • 77.2.1.3 Add the Chart to a Report
  • 77.2.2 Modifying the Chart's Rendering Elements
  • 77.2.3 Adding a Custom Chart to a Report

Part XIX Troubleshooting

78 Logging and Debugging Errors

• 78.1 About Writing Custom Messages to the WebCenter Sites Log File
• 78.2 Using Error Codes with Tags

Part XX Reference

79 Using Asset API: Tutorial

• 79.1 Understanding the Asset API
• 79.2 Primary Interfaces
• 79.3 Getting Started
• 79.4 Asset API Read
  • 79.4.1 A Simple Example: Reading Field Values
  • 79.4.2 Reading AssetId
  • 79.4.3 Reading Attributes Given the Asset ID
  • 79.4.4 Running a Query
  • 79.4.5 Running a Complex Query
  • 79.4.6 Retrieving the Results by Sorting
  • 79.4.7 Reading BlobObject
  • 79.4.8 Retrieving Multi-Valued Attributes
  • 79.4.9 Multilingual Assets: Retrieving Translations
  • 79.4.10 Reading Asset and Attribute Definitions
  • 79.4.11 Reading Key-Value Mappings
• 79.5 Asset API Write
  • 79.5.1 Creating New Assets
  • 79.5.2 Updating Existing Assets
  • 79.5.3 Deleting Existing Assets
  • 79.5.4 Multilingual Assets
• 79.6 Development Strategies
  • 79.6.1 Data Types and Attribute Data
  • 79.6.2 Query Types
  • 79.6.3 Data Types and Valid Query Operations
• 79.7 Optional: Setting Up to Use the Asset API from Standalone Java Programs

80 Using Public Site Search

• 80.1 About the Search Framework
• 80.2 Index Types
  • 80.2.1 Global Index
  • 80.2.2 Asset Type Index
• 80.3 About Search API
  • 80.3.1 SearchEngine
  • 80.3.2 QueryExpression
  • 80.3.3 Configuring Query Expression
• 80.4 Advanced Configuration
  • 80.4.1 Configuration of Lucene Parameters
  • 80.4.2 Configuration of Custom AnalyzerFactory

Part XXI Appendixes for Oracle WebCenter Sites Core

81 Introducing WebCenter Sites Tools and Utilities

• 81.1 Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer
• 81.2 Connecting to a WebCenter Sites Database
• 81.3 CatalogMover
  • 81.3.1 Starting CatalogMover
  • 81.3.2 Connecting to WebCenter Sites
  • 81.3.3 CatalogMover Menu Commands
  • 81.3.4 Catalog Menu
  • 81.3.5 Exporting Tables
    • 81.3.5.1 Exporting Selected Table Rows
    • 81.3.5.2 Selecting Rows for Export
    • 81.3.5.3 Exporting to a ZIP File
  • 81.3.6 Importing Tables
    • 81.3.6.1 Importing HTML Files Previously Exported
    • 81.3.6.2 Importing a Previously Exported ZIP File
    • 81.3.6.3 Merging Existing CatalogMover Files
    • 81.3.6.4 Replacing Existing CatalogMover Files
  • 81.3.7 Command Line Interface
• 81.4 Property Management Tool
  • 81.4.1 Accessing the Property Management Tool
  • 81.4.2 Setting Properties
  • 81.4.3 Adding Properties to the wcs_properties.json File
• 81.5 About Importing with XMLPost

82 Understanding White Space and Compression

• 82.1 White Space and JSP
• 82.2 White Space and XML
• 82.3 Compression
• 82.4 JSP Design

83 Using WebCenter Sites URL Assemblers

• 83.1 About WebCenter Sites URL Assemblers
  • 83.1.1 URL Assembly
  • 83.1.2 Assembler Discovery and Disassembly
  • 83.1.3 URL Assembly and Disassembly Using GET and POST Requests
• 83.2 Assemblers Installed with WebCenter Sites
  • 83.2.1 Query Assembler
  • 83.2.2 QueryAsPathInfo Assembler
• 83.3 Working with Assemblers
  • 83.3.1 Creating Assemblers
  • 83.3.2 Registering and Ranking Assemblers
  • 83.3.3 Link Tags Modification
• 83.4 Vanity URL Links in a Web Page