| Oracle® Content Services Application Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) Part Number B15972-01 |
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| Oracle® Content Services Application Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) Part Number B15972-01 |
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This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Content Services application. This chapter contains the following topics:
Content management systems enable organizations to support the life cycle of content. The life cycle of content typically consist of creating, editing, publishing, and archiving. For example, content is created by one or more authors. Over time that content may be edited and approved for publication. Once the content has been published it may be replaced by another form of content and archived or removed from use.
Content management can improve an organization's knowledge sharing and communication capability. Content management systems improve users' efficiency by making content readily available.
In addition, content management systems may include version control, workflow, security, and more.
Oracle Content Services is a consolidated, database-centric content management system that provides a comprehensive, integrated solution for file and document lifecycle management. Oracle Content Services enables enterprise customers to utilize one highly scalable, manageable, and usable application to manage all of their unstructured information.
There are two types of administration for Oracle Content Services: system administration and application administration.
System administration involves managing the Oracle Content Services instance by starting and stopping the nodes, services, and servers, tuning the system to ensure reliability and performance, creating, modifying, and deleting Sites, as well as registering custom workflows. System Administration uses the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control for Collaboration Suite to manage Oracle Content Services.
Application administration involves managing users, quota, Libraries, categories, content, and records at the Site and Container level. Application administration is divided into multiple administrator roles that can be assigned at the Site level only or at both the Site and Container level.
A single user can act in multiple roles. In addition, each role has a different set of access privileges.
Initially, when Oracle Content Services is installed, a default user is assigned.
When first signing in to Oracle Content Services, use the orcladmin user for the default realm. This user has all of the Oracle Content Services administrative roles.
The orcladmin user can designate the various application administrator roles to other users. A user can have more than one application administrator role, and more than one user may be assigned the same application administrator role.
In addition, the orcladmin user can designate the Security Administrator role to a user, and in turn, that Security Administrator can designate the remaining application administrator roles to other users.
Once users have been assigned administrator roles, they can sign in to the application as a regular user, and decide whether they want to be in administrator mode by selecting Switch to Administration Mode.
