This preface introduces the new and changed features of Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0) and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information. This includes information about the changes to the WebCenter Sites Contributor interface, the WebCenter Sites: Community application's interface, and the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Gadgets application's interfaces.
Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0) includes the following new features:
New features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites Contributor interface include:
Support for Vanity URLs, which includes the ability to define and manage a vanity URL for any asset that will be published to your website. See Section 3.4.
Support for bulk copy and bulk share operations on assets. See Section 3.1.3.2 and Section 3.2.3.
Added the ContentQuery asset type, which allows users to save their search criteria as an asset of type ContentQuery. See Section 6.5.2 and Section 18.4.
Added tagging capabilities, which enables users to organize assets by adding tags to them and then conduct an advanced search to find all assets that have been tagged with the same content. See Section 6.6.2.
Support for integrating WebCenter Sites: Community and WebCenter Sites: Gadgets with the Contributor interface. This integration enables users to customize and deploy widgets and gadgets directly from the Contributor interface. See .
The new Mobility component in Oracle WebCenter Sites enables users to create multiple websites for various mobile devices (such as smart phones and tablets) within a single content management site. See Chapter 13.
Added the ability to approve site plans and Page assets for publishing from the Site Tree. See Section 14.2.2.
New features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community interface include:
Added the option to post a reply to a comment as an administrator when managing comments in the "Comments by Topic" screen. See Section 25.2.2.
Added the option to enable or disable the Comments and/or Reviews widgets deployed on a given topic (web page). See Section 25.2.2 and Section 26.2.2.
Added functionality to the Login Bar widget. In the Login Bar settings screen, users can now: Enable integration with Oracle Access Management and disable or enable sharing of comments and reviews to third-party social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. For more information, see Section 28.2.
Added two new columns to the "Cache Summary" screen:
Max Elements On Disk
Overflow to Disk
For information about these two columns, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Administrator's Guide.
New features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites Gadgets application interfaces include:
Added the ability to reconfigure and deploy the LoginBar widget. This is the same Login Bar widget for the Community application. Therefore, any changes you make to the Login Bar widget in the Gadgets interface are applied to the Login Bar widget in the Community interface, and vice versa. For information about reconfiguring the Login Bar widget, see Section 28.2 and Section 35.2.
Added the Language option (located under the Settings menu) in the Site Gadget Catalog interface. The "Language" screen allows users to configure a language preference for deployed gadgets. For more information, see Section 35.5.
Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0) includes the following changed features:
Changed features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites Contributor interface include:
Renaming of Form Mode and Web Mode to Form View and Web View. In this guide, any mention of Form Mode and Web Mode refers to Form View and Web View. For more information about Form View and Web View, see Section 1.1.2.
Renaming of SmartLists. In previous releases, saved search criteria was referred to as a SmartList. With this release, saved search criteria is referred to as a Saved Search. For more information about Saved Searches, see Section 6.5.1.
Improved Engage functionality:
Improved the content entry forms for creating filtering rules for Recommendation assets. See Section 19.4.
Changed the procedure for creating Segment assets. See Section 18.3.
Changed features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community interface include:
The CSS tag is now deployable for both community widgets and gadgets. Instructions for deploying the CSS tag for a gadget are included in the instructions for deploying the CSS tag for community widgets.
This information has been moved into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Developer's Guide.
Moved information about community widget tags into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Developer's Guide.
Moved information about SEO support into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Developer's Guide.
Changed features in the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Gadgets application interfaces include:
Moved information about the Global Gadget Catalog interface into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Administrator's Guide.
Moved information about enabling the Gadgets interfaces into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Administrator's Guide.
Moved information about registering gadgets to the Global Gadget Catalog or a site gadget catalog into the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Administrator's Guide.
Removed OAuth support for this release.
Changed the menu bar options that are displayed in the Gadgets User interface:
The Gadgets menu has been renamed to Catalog. Additionally, gadgets are now deployed from the Catalog screen. As a result, the Deployment menu has been removed from the menu bar.
The Dashboard menu contains the Preview and Deploy options.
Added the Login Bar menu option
Added the Settings menu which contains the Authorized Domain, Appearance, and Language options.
Removed the Permissions menu. The Authorized Domain option is now under the Settings menu.
For information about the menu options in the Gadgets interfaces, see Section 33.2.
Added CSS tags for gadgets. In this release, users can deploy a CSS tag for gadgets and the dashboard. The instructions are the same as deploying a CSS tag for a community widget. For more information, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebCenter Sites Developer's Guide.
This guide consolidates user's documentation that was once available in separate books. Topics that have been added to this guide are the following:
Part II, "Using the Community Application" provides instructions for working with the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community application as a user assigned the Moderator or Designer role.
Part III, "Creating Blog Content" provides instructions for creating blog assets and categories, and modifying blog author assets.
Part IV, "Using the Gadgets Application" provides information about the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Gadgets application and provides information about the permissions granted to users of the Gadgets User interface.
The following features are deprecated in WebCenter Sites 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0):
Mirror publishing. This feature is replaced by RealTime publishing.
Static publishing
WebCenter Sites Desktop
WebCenter Sites DocLink