Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

• New and Changed Features in 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0)
• Deprecation Notice

Part I Developing Oracle WebCenter Sites

1 Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Sites

• 1.1 From the Content Entry Form to the Website
• 1.2 Developing a Dynamic Website
• 1.3 WebCenter Sites Data Design
• 1.4 Presentation Logic
  • 1.4.1 Element Files
  • 1.4.2 APIs and JSP Tags
  • 1.4.3 Sessions and Cookies
  • 1.4.4 WebCenter Sites Utilities
  • 1.4.5 Website Navigation
• 1.5 WebCenter Sites Systems
• 1.6 Approval and Publishing
• 1.7 Performance: Caching
  • 1.7.1 Page Caching
  • 1.7.2 Resultset Caching
  • 1.7.3 Asset Caching
  • 1.7.4 Satellite Server
    • 1.7.4.1 Handling HTTP Requests
    • 1.7.4.2 Satellite Server Servlets
• 1.8 WebCenter Sites Interfaces
• 1.9 Sample Sites
  • 1.9.1 The Avisports Sample Site
  • 1.9.2 The FirstSiteII Sample Site
  • 1.9.3 Only Available in the WebCenter Sites Demo JSK

2 About Content Management Sites

• 2.1 Content Management Sites
• 2.2 Online Sites
• 2.3 Developers and the Content Management Site
• 2.4 Sites and the Site Plan
  • 2.4.1 Example: the Burlington Financial Sample Site
• 2.5 Sites and the Database

3 Oracle 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

4 Programming with Oracle WebCenter Sites

• 4.1 Choosing a Coding Language
• 4.2 The Oracle WebCenter Sites Context
  • 4.2.1 The ICS Object
  • 4.2.2 The FTCS tag
• 4.3 WebCenter Sites JSP
  • 4.3.1 WebCenter Sites Standard Beginning
    • 4.3.1.1 Taglib Directives
    • 4.3.1.2 Page Directives
    • 4.3.1.3 The cs:ftcs Tag
  • 4.3.2 JSP Implicit Objects
  • 4.3.3 Syntax
  • 4.3.4 Actions
  • 4.3.5 Declarations
  • 4.3.6 Scriptlets and Expressions
  • 4.3.7 JSP Directives
  • 4.3.8 Oracle WebCenter Sites Tag Libraries
    • 4.3.8.1 Tag Libraries for Both Basic and Flex Assets
    • 4.3.8.2 Tag Libraries for Basic Assets
    • 4.3.8.3 Tag Libraries for Flex Assets
• 4.4 WebCenter Sites XML
  • 4.4.1 WebCenter Sites Standard Beginning
    • 4.4.1.1 XML Version and Encoding
    • 4.4.1.2 The DTD File
    • 4.4.1.3 The FTCS Tag
  • 4.4.2 XML Entities and Reserved Characters
  • 4.4.3 XML Parsing Errors
• 4.5 WebCenter Sites Tags
  • 4.5.1 Tags That Create the WebCenter Sites Context
  • 4.5.2 Tags That Handle Variables
  • 4.5.3 Tags That Call Pages and Elements
  • 4.5.4 Tags That Create URLs
  • 4.5.5 Tags That Control Caching
  • 4.5.6 Tags That Set Cookies
  • 4.5.7 Programming Construct Tags
  • 4.5.8 Tags That Manage Compositional and Approval Dependencies
  • 4.5.9 Tags That Retrieve Information About Basic Assets
    • 4.5.9.1 Performance Notes About the Asset Tags
  • 4.5.10 Tags That Create Assetsets (Flex Assets)
  • 4.5.11 Tags That Create Searchstates (Flex Assets)
• 4.6 Variables
  • 4.6.1 Reserved Variables
  • 4.6.2 Setting Regular Variables
    • 4.6.2.1 Setting Variables with SETVAR
    • 4.6.2.2 Setting Variables via a URL
    • 4.6.2.3 Setting Default Variables for Elements and Templates with Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer
    • 4.6.2.4 Setting Variables Using HTML Forms
  • 4.6.3 Setting Session Variables
  • 4.6.4 Working With Variables
    • 4.6.4.1 Retrieving a Variable's Value
    • 4.6.4.2 Displaying a Variable's Value
    • 4.6.4.3 Assigning One Variable Value to Another Variable
    • 4.6.4.4 Using Variables in HTML Tags
    • 4.6.4.5 Evaluating Variables with IF/THEN/ELSE
  • 4.6.5 Variables and Precedence
  • 4.6.6 Best Practices with Variables
• 4.7 Other WebCenter Sites Storage Constructs
  • 4.7.1 Built-ins
  • 4.7.2 Lists
    • 4.7.2.1 Looping Through Lists
  • 4.7.3 Counters
• 4.8 Values for Special Characters

5 Page Design and Caching

• 5.1 Modular Page Design
• 5.2 Caching
  • 5.2.1 WebCenter Sites Caching
  • 5.2.2 BlobServer and Caching
  • 5.2.3 Satellite Server Caching
    • 5.2.3.1 Cache Expiration
    • 5.2.3.2 Caching with the Satellite Servlet
• 5.3 Viewing the Contents of the Satellite Server Cache
  • 5.3.1 CacheManager
  • 5.3.2 The SiteCatalog Table
  • 5.3.3 The Cache Key
    • 5.3.3.1 pagecriteria and the Cache Key
  • 5.3.4 Caching Properties
    • 5.3.4.1 WebCenter Sites Page Caching Properties
    • 5.3.4.2 Satellite Server Properties
• 5.4 Double-Buffered Caching
  • 5.4.1 Implementing Double-Buffered Caching
    • 5.4.1.1 Pagelet Caching Strategies
  • 5.4.2 Setting cscacheinfo
  • 5.4.3 Coding for Caching
  • 5.4.4 Caching and Security
    • 5.4.4.1 WebCenter Sites Security
    • 5.4.4.2 Satellite Server Security

6 Intelligent Cache Management with WebCenter Sites

• 6.1 WebCenter Sites's Rendering Engine Cache
• 6.2 CacheManager
• 6.3 Enabling CacheManager
  • 6.3.1 Tier 1 Cache Configuration Properties
  • 6.3.2 Tier 2 Cache Configuration Properties

7 Advanced Page Caching Techniques

• 7.1 Configuring the WebCenter Sites Cache
  • 7.1.1 Configuring Maximum Cache Size
  • 7.1.2 Setting Expiration Time for an Individual Entry
  • 7.1.3 Explicitly Removing Entries from Cache
• 7.2 Configuring the Blob Server Cache
  • 7.2.1 Configuring Maximum Cache Size
  • 7.2.2 Setting Expiration Time for an Individual Entry
  • 7.2.3 Explicitly Removing Entries from Cache
• 7.3 Configuring the Satellite Server Cache
• 7.4 CacheInfo String Syntax

8 WebCenter Sites Tools and Utilities

• 8.1 Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer
• 8.2 Connecting to a WebCenter Sites Database
• 8.3 CatalogMover
  • 8.3.1 Starting CatalogMover
  • 8.3.2 Connecting to WebCenter Sites
  • 8.3.3 CatalogMover Menu Commands
  • 8.3.4 Catalog Menu
  • 8.3.5 Exporting Tables
    • 8.3.5.1 Exporting Selected Table Rows
    • 8.3.5.2 Selecting Rows for Export
    • 8.3.5.3 Exporting to a ZIP File
  • 8.3.6 Importing Tables
    • 8.3.6.1 Importing HTML Files Previously Exported
    • 8.3.6.2 Importing a Previously Exported ZIP File
    • 8.3.6.3 Merging Existing CatalogMover Files
    • 8.3.6.4 Replacing Existing CatalogMover Files
  • 8.3.7 Command Line Interface
• 8.4 Property Editor
  • 8.4.1 Starting the Property Editor
  • 8.4.2 Setting Properties
  • 8.4.3 Merging Property Files
• 8.5 XMLPost

9 Sessions and Cookies

• 9.1 Understanding Sessions
• 9.2 Session Lifetime
  • 9.2.1 Session Variables Maintained by WebCenter Sites
  • 9.2.2 Logging In and Logging Out
• 9.3 Sessions Example
  • 9.3.1 FeelingsForm Element
  • 9.3.2 SetFeeling Element
  • 9.3.3 Meat Element
• 9.4 What Is a Cookie?
  • 9.4.1 CookieServer
  • 9.4.2 Cookie Tags
• 9.5 Cookie Example
  • 9.5.1 Start.xml
  • 9.5.2 ColorForm
  • 9.5.3 CreateCookie
  • 9.5.4 DisplayWelcome
  • 9.5.5 Running the Cookie Example
• 9.6 Tips and Tricks
• 9.7 Satellite Server Session Tracking
  • 9.7.1 Flushing a Session Via URL
  • 9.7.2 Flushing Current Session Information
  • 9.7.3 Flushing Other Session Information

10 Error Logging and Debugging

• 10.1 Logging to the WebCenter Sites Log File
• 10.2 Using Error Codes with Tags

11 Data Design: The Asset Models

• 11.1 Asset Types and Asset Models
  • 11.1.1 Two Data Models
  • 11.1.2 Default Core Asset Types
  • 11.1.3 Which Asset Model Should You Use to Represent Your Content?
    • 11.1.3.1 When to Use the Basic Model
    • 11.1.3.2 When to Use the Flex Model
• 11.2 The Basic Asset Model
  • 11.2.1 Basic Asset Types from the Burlington Financial Sample Site
  • 11.2.2 Relationships Between Basic Assets
    • 11.2.2.1 Associations
    • 11.2.2.2 Unnamed Relationships
  • 11.2.3 Category, Source, and Subtype
    • 11.2.3.1 Category
    • 11.2.3.2 Source
    • 11.2.3.3 Subtype
  • 11.2.4 Basic Asset Types and the Database
    • 11.2.4.1 Template Asset Type and the Database
    • 11.2.4.2 Default Columns in the Basic Asset Type Database Table
• 11.3 The Flex Asset Model
  • 11.3.1 The Flex Family
    • 11.3.1.1 Parent, Child, and Flex Assets
  • 11.3.2 Sample Site Flex Families
    • 11.3.2.1 The Product Family
    • 11.3.2.2 The Content Family
  • 11.3.3 Flex Attributes
    • 11.3.3.1 Data Types for Attributes
    • 11.3.3.2 Default Input Styles for Attributes
    • 11.3.3.3 Foreign Attributes
  • 11.3.4 Flex Parents and Flex Parent Definitions
    • 11.3.4.1 Business Rules and Taxonomy
  • 11.3.5 Flex Assets and Flex Definition Assets
  • 11.3.6 Flex Families and the Database
    • 11.3.6.1 Default Columns in the Flex Asset Type Database Table
    • 11.3.6.2 The _Mungo Tables
    • 11.3.6.3 The MungoBlobs Table
    • 11.3.6.4 The _AMap Tables
• 11.4 Assetsets and Searchstates
• 11.5 Search Engines and the Two Asset Models
• 11.6 Tags and the Two Asset Models
• 11.7 Summary: Basic and Flex Asset Models
• 11.8 Summary: Asset Types

12 The WebCenter Sites Database

• 12.1 Types of Database Tables
  • 12.1.1 Object Tables
  • 12.1.2 Tree Tables
  • 12.1.3 Content Tables
  • 12.1.4 Foreign Tables
  • 12.1.5 System Tables
  • 12.1.6 Identifying a Table's Type
• 12.2 Types of Columns (Fields)
  • 12.2.1 Generic Field Types
  • 12.2.2 Database-Specific Field Types
  • 12.2.3 Indirect Data Storage with the WebCenter Sites URL Field
• 12.3 Creating Database Tables
  • 12.3.1 Creating Object Tables
  • 12.3.2 Creating Tree Tables
    • 12.3.2.1 Managing Data in Tree Tables
  • 12.3.3 Creating Content Tables
  • 12.3.4 Registering a Foreign Table
• 12.4 How Information Is Added to the System Tables
• 12.5 Property Files and Databases

13 Managing Data in Non-Asset Tables

• 13.1 Methods and Tags
  • 13.1.1 Writing and Retrieving Data
    • 13.1.1.1 CatalogManager
    • 13.1.1.2 Tree Manager
  • 13.1.2 Querying for Data
  • 13.1.3 Lists and Listing Data
• 13.2 Coding Data Entry Forms
  • 13.2.1 Adding a Row
    • 13.2.1.1 The addrowFORM Element
    • 13.2.1.2 Root Element for the addrow Page
  • 13.2.2 Deleting a Row
    • 13.2.2.1 The deleterowFORM Element
    • 13.2.2.2 Root Element for the deleterow Page
  • 13.2.3 Querying a Table
    • 13.2.3.1 The SelectNameForm Element
    • 13.2.3.2 The Root Element for the QueryEditRowForm Page
    • 13.2.3.3 The Root Element for the QueryEditRow Page
  • 13.2.4 Querying a Table with an Embedded SQL Statement
    • 13.2.4.1 QueryInlineSQLForm
    • 13.2.4.2 The Root Element for the QueryInlineSQL Page
• 13.3 Managing the Data Manually
• 13.4 Deleting Non-Asset Tables

14 Resultset Caching and Queries

• 14.1 Caching Frameworks
• 14.2 Database Queries
• 14.3 How Resultset Caching Works
• 14.4 Reducing the Load on the Database
• 14.5 Specifying the Table Name
  • 14.5.1 SELECTTO
  • 14.5.2 EXECSQL
  • 14.5.3 CALLSQL
  • 14.5.4 Search Forms in the WebCenter Sites Interface
  • 14.5.5 Query Asset
  • 14.5.6 SEARCHSTATE
• 14.6 Flushing the Resultset Cache
• 14.7 Switching Between Caching Frameworks
• 14.8 Configuring Resultset Caching
  • 14.8.1 Planning Your Resultset Caching Strategy
  • 14.8.2 Default Properties
  • 14.8.3 Table-Specific Properties
• 14.9 Summary

15 Designing Basic Asset Types

• 15.1 The AssetMaker Utility
  • 15.1.1 How AssetMaker Works
  • 15.1.2 Asset Descriptor Files
    • 15.1.2.1 What Is an Asset Descriptor File?
    • 15.1.2.2 Format and Syntax
    • 15.1.2.3 Overview of the AssetMaker Tags
  • 15.1.3 Columns in the Asset Type's Database Table
    • 15.1.3.1 The Source Column: A Special Case
    • 15.1.3.2 Storage Types for the Columns
    • 15.1.3.3 Input Types for the Fields
    • 15.1.3.4 Data Types for Standard Asset Fields
  • 15.1.4 Elements and SQL Statements for the Asset Type
    • 15.1.4.1 The Elements
    • 15.1.4.2 The SQL Statements
• 15.2 Creating Basic Asset Types
  • 15.2.1 Overview of Creating and Configuring a New Asset Type
  • 15.2.2 Before You Begin
    • 15.2.2.1 Plan the Asset Type Design
    • 15.2.2.2 Set Up Your Development System
  • 15.2.3 Step 1: Code the Asset Descriptor File
    • 15.2.3.1 Sample Asset Descriptor File: ImageFile.xml
    • 15.2.3.2 Example: Adding the Source Column and Field
    • 15.2.3.3 Upload Example 1: A Standard Upload Field
    • 15.2.3.4 Upload Example 2: A Text Box Field
    • 15.2.3.5 Upload Example 2: A Text Box Field
    • 15.2.3.6 Upload Example 3: A CKEditor Field
    • 15.2.3.7 Upload Example 4: A Field That Uploads a Binary File
    • 15.2.3.8 Example: Enabling path, filename, startdate, and enddate
    • 15.2.3.9 Example: Using a Query to Obtain Options for a Drop-Down List
    • 15.2.3.10 Example: Using a Query to Obtain Labels for Radio Buttons
    • 15.2.3.11 Example: Creating a Field with the ELEMENT Input Type
  • 15.2.4 Step 2: Upload the Asset Descriptor File to WebCenter Sites
  • 15.2.5 Step 3: Create the Asset Table
  • 15.2.6 Step 4: Configure the Asset Type
  • 15.2.7 Step 5: Enable the Asset Type on Your Site
  • 15.2.8 Step 6: Fine-Tune the Asset Descriptor File
  • 15.2.9 Step 7: (Optional) Customize the Asset Type Elements
    • 15.2.9.1 About PreUpdate and PostUpdate Elements
  • 15.2.10 Step 8: (Optional) Configure Subtypes
    • 15.2.10.1 Adding Subtypes
    • 15.2.10.2 Deleting Subtypes
  • 15.2.11 Step 9: (Optional) Configure Association Fields
    • 15.2.11.1 Adding Association Fields
    • 15.2.11.2 Deleting Association Fields
  • 15.2.12 Step 10: (Optional) Configure Categories
    • 15.2.12.1 Adding Categories
    • 15.2.12.2 Deleting Categories
  • 15.2.13 Step 11: (Optional) Configure Sources
    • 15.2.13.1 Adding Sources
    • 15.2.13.2 Deleting Sources
  • 15.2.14 Step 12: (Conditional) Add Mimetypes
  • 15.2.15 Step 13: (Optional) Edit Search Elements to Enable Indexed Search
  • 15.2.16 Step 14: Create and Assign Asset Type Icons (Contributor Interface Only)
  • 15.2.17 Step 15: Code Templates for the Asset Type
  • 15.2.18 Step 16: Move the Asset Types to Other Systems
• 15.3 Deleting Basic Asset Types

16 Designing Flex Asset Types

• 16.1 Design Tips for Flex Families
  • 16.1.1 Visitors on the Delivery System
  • 16.1.2 Users on the Management System
  • 16.1.3 How Many Attribute Types Should You Create?
  • 16.1.4 Designing Flex Attributes
    • 16.1.4.1 Which Data Types
    • 16.1.4.2 Using Attribute Editors
    • 16.1.4.3 Where Will Each Attribute Be Used?
    • 16.1.4.4 Dependencies Imposed by Hierarchy
  • 16.1.5 How Many Definition Types Should You Create?
  • 16.1.6 Designing Parent Definition and Flex Definition Assets
    • 16.1.6.1 Determining Hierarchical Place
    • 16.1.6.2 Determining Attribute Inheritance
    • 16.1.6.3 How Many Flex Parent Definition Assets?
    • 16.1.6.4 How Many Flex Definition Assets?
  • 16.1.7 Summary
• 16.2 The Flex Family Maker Utility
• 16.3 Creating a Flex Asset Family
  • 16.3.1 Overview of Creating a New Flex Asset Type or Family of Flex Asset Types
  • 16.3.2 Before You Begin
  • 16.3.3 Step 1: Create a Flex Family
  • 16.3.4 Step 2: (Optional) Create Additional Flex Family Members
  • 16.3.5 Step 3: Enable the New Flex Asset Types
  • 16.3.6 Step 4: Create Flex Attributes
    • 16.3.6.1 Creating Flex Attributes: Basic Procedure
    • 16.3.6.2 Creating Flex Attributes of Type Blob (Upload Field)
    • 16.3.6.3 Creating Flex Attributes of Type Asset
    • 16.3.6.4 Creating Foreign Flex Attributes
  • 16.3.7 Step 5: (Optional) Create Flex Filter Assets
  • 16.3.8 Step 6: Create Parent Definition Assets
  • 16.3.9 Step 7: Create Flex Definition Assets
  • 16.3.10 Step 8: Create Flex Parent Assets
  • 16.3.11 Step 9: Create and Assign Asset Type Icons (Contributor Interface Only)
  • 16.3.12 Step 10: Code Templates for the Flex Assets
  • 16.3.13 Step 11: Test Your Design (Create Test Flex Assets)
  • 16.3.14 Step 12 (Optional): Create Flex Asset Associations
  • 16.3.15 Step 13: Move the Asset Types to Other Systems
• 16.4 Editing Flex Attributes, Parents, and Definitions
  • 16.4.1 Editing Attributes
  • 16.4.2 Editing Parent Definitions and Flex Definitions
  • 16.4.3 Editing Parents and Flex Assets
• 16.5 Using Product Sets
  • 16.5.1 What Is a Product Set?
  • 16.5.2 Creating Product Sets

17 Flex Filters

• 17.1 Understanding Flex Filter Classes and Assets
  • 17.1.1 Flex Filter Classes
  • 17.1.2 Flex Filter Assets
• 17.2 Defining a Flex Filter Class and Creating a Flex Filter Asset
  • 17.2.1 Implementing a Flex Filter Class
    • 17.2.1.1 Extending the 'AbstractFlexFilter' Class
  • 17.2.2 Defining a Custom Flex Filter Class
  • 17.2.3 Creating Flex Filter Assets
• 17.3 Document Transformation
  • 17.3.1 Default Solution
  • 17.3.2 Custom Solutions
  • 17.3.3 Customizing Document Transformation
    • 17.3.3.1 Writing and Deploying a Document Transformer
    • 17.3.3.2 Registering the Transformation Engine
    • 17.3.3.3 Registering the Document Transformer
  • 17.3.4 Next Steps

18 Designing Attribute Editors

• 18.1 Understanding Attribute Editors
  • 18.1.1 The presentationobject.dtd File
    • 18.1.1.1 Conventions for the presentationobject.dtd File
  • 18.1.2 The Attribute Editor Asset
    • 18.1.2.1 The Syntax and the Default Tags
    • 18.1.2.2 CHECKBOXES Example
    • 18.1.2.3 CKEditor Example
    • 18.1.2.4 PICKASSET Example
    • 18.1.2.5 PULLDOWN Example
    • 18.1.2.6 RADIOBUTTONS Example
    • 18.1.2.7 TEXTAREA Example
    • 18.1.2.8 TEXTFIELD Example
    • 18.1.2.9 TYPEAHEAD Example
    • 18.1.2.10 UPLOADER Example
  • 18.1.3 The Attribute Editor Elements
  • 18.1.4 Conventions for the Attribute Editor Elements
• 18.2 Creating Attribute Editors
• 18.3 Customizing Attribute Editors
  • 18.3.1 Example: Customized Attribute Editor
  • 18.3.2 Adding Custom Logic to Validate an Uploaded File
• 18.4 Editing Attribute Editors

19 Configuring Bundled Attribute Editors

• 19.1 Configuring CKEditor
  • 19.1.1 Before You Begin
  • 19.1.2 Creating a CKEditor Instance and Enabling It for a Field
  • 19.1.3 Enabling CKEditor for Use in Web Mode
  • 19.1.4 Enabling Selected Asset Types for the CKEditor
  • 19.1.5 Setting the Approval Dependency for Included Assets
  • 19.1.6 Enable "Image Picker" for the CKEditor
  • 19.1.7 Customizing the CKEditor Toolbar
    • 19.1.7.1 Customizing the CKEditor Toolbar System-Wide
    • 19.1.7.2 Customizing the CKEditor Toolbar on a Per-Instance Basis
  • 19.1.8 Configuring Spell Check Support in CKEditor
• 19.2 Configuring the Clarkii Online Image Editor
  • 19.2.1 Creating a Clarkii OIE Instance and Enabling it for a Field
  • 19.2.2 Configuring Clarkii OIE Properties
  • 19.2.3 Implementing a Field Copier Filter to Classify Assets
• 19.3 Configuring the Image Picker
  • 19.3.1 Categorizing Image Assets for Display in Image Picker
  • 19.3.2 Sample Image Picker Attribute Editor Definition Code

20 Importing Assets of Any Type

• 20.1 The XMLPost Utility
• 20.2 XMLPost Configuration Files
  • 20.2.1 Configuration Properties for XMLPost
  • 20.2.2 Configuration Properties for the Posting Element
  • 20.2.3 Configuration Properties for the Source Files
    • 20.2.3.1 Site Properties
    • 20.2.3.2 Asset Type Properties
  • 20.2.4 Sample XMLPost Configuration File
• 20.3 XMLPost Source Files
  • 20.3.1 Sample XMLPost Source File
  • 20.3.2 XMLPost and File Encoding
• 20.4 Using the XMLPost Utility
  • 20.4.1 Before You Begin
  • 20.4.2 Running XMLPost from the Command Line
  • 20.4.3 Options for Identifying Source Files
  • 20.4.4 Running XMLPost as a Batch Process
  • 20.4.5 Running XMLPost Programmatically
• 20.5 Customizing RemoteContentPost and PreUpdate
  • 20.5.1 Setting a Field Value Programmatically
  • 20.5.2 Setting an Asset Association
• 20.6 Troubleshooting XMLPost

21 Importing Flex Assets

• 21.1 Understanding Flex Assets
  • 21.1.1 Importing the Data Structure Flex Asset Types
  • 21.1.2 Importing the Flex Assets
  • 21.1.3 Importing Flex Assets: The Process
  • 21.1.4 Using Custom Data Delimiters
• 21.2 XMLPost and the Flex Asset Model
• 21.3 Importing the Structural Asset Types in the Flex Model
  • 21.3.1 Attribute Editors
    • 21.3.1.1 Sample Configuration File: Attribute Editor
    • 21.3.1.2 Sample Source File: Attribute Editor
  • 21.3.2 Flex Attributes
    • 21.3.2.1 Sample Configuration File: Flex Attribute
    • 21.3.2.2 Sample Source File: Attribute
  • 21.3.3 Flex Definitions and Flex Parent Definitions
    • 21.3.3.1 Sample Configuration File: Flex Definition
    • 21.3.3.2 Sample Source File: Flex Definition
  • 21.3.4 Flex Parents
    • 21.3.4.1 Sample Configuration File: Individual Flex Parent
    • 21.3.4.2 Sample Source File: Individual Flex Parent
• 21.4 Importing Flex Assets with XMLPost
  • 21.4.1 Configuration File Properties and Source File Tags for Flex Assets
    • 21.4.1.1 For the addData Posting Element
    • 21.4.1.2 For the RemoteContentPost Posting Element
  • 21.4.2 Sample Flex Asset Configuration File for addData
  • 21.4.3 Configuration File Properties and Attributes of Type Blob (or URL)
  • 21.4.4 Sample Flex Asset Source File for addData
    • 21.4.4.1 Sample File
    • 21.4.4.2 Handling Special Characters
    • 21.4.4.3 Flex Assets and Their Parents
    • 21.4.4.4 Specifying the Parents of a Flex Asset
    • 21.4.4.5 Setting Attribute Values for Parents
    • 21.4.4.6 Setting Multiple Values in a Flex Source File
  • 21.4.5 Sample Flex Asset Configuration File for RemoteContentPost
  • 21.4.6 Sample Flex Asset Source File for RemoteContentPost
• 21.5 Editing Flex Assets with XMLPost
  • 21.5.1 Configuration Files for Editing Flex Assets
  • 21.5.2 Source Files for Editing Flex Assets
    • 21.5.2.1 Changing the Value of an Attribute
    • 21.5.2.2 Removing an Attribute Value
    • 21.5.2.3 Editing Parent Relationships
• 21.6 Deleting Assets with XMLPost
  • 21.6.1 Configuration Files for Deleting Assets
  • 21.6.2 Source Files for Deleting Assets

22 Importing Flex Assets with the BulkLoader Utility

• 22.1 Overview of the BulkLoader Utility
  • 22.1.1 BulkLoader Features
  • 22.1.2 How BulkLoader Works
  • 22.1.3 Using the BulkLoader Utility
  • 22.1.4 Importing Flex Assets from Flat Tables
  • 22.1.5 Step 1: Use XMLPost to Import Structural Assets
  • 22.1.6 Step 2: Create the Input Table (Data Source)
    • 22.1.6.1 Inserts
    • 22.1.6.2 Updates
  • 22.1.7 Step 3: Create the Mapping Table
  • 22.1.8 Step 4: Create the BulkLoader Configuration File
    • 22.1.8.1 BulkLoader Configuration File Properties
    • 22.1.8.2 Setting the initID Parameter
    • 22.1.8.3 Example Configuration File
  • 22.1.9 Step 5: Run the BulkLoader Utility
  • 22.1.10 Step 6: Review Feedback Information
  • 22.1.11 Step 7: Approve and Publish the Assets to the Delivery System
• 22.2 Importing Flex Assets Using a Custom Extraction Mechanism
  • 22.2.1 IDataExtract Interface
  • 22.2.2 IPopulateDataSlice
  • 22.2.3 IFeedback Interface
• 22.3 Approving Flex Assets with the BulkApprover Utility
  • 22.3.1 Configuring BulkApprover
  • 22.3.2 Using BulkApprover

23 Creating Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets

• 23.1 Understanding Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
• 23.2 Pages, Pagelets, and Elements
  • 23.2.1 Elements, Pagelets, and Caching
  • 23.2.2 Calling Pages and Elements
  • 23.2.3 Page vs. Pagelet
• 23.3 CSElement, Template, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.3.1 Template Assets
  • 23.3.2 CSElement Assets
  • 23.3.3 SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.3.4 What About Non-Asset Elements?
• 23.4 Creating Template Assets
  • 23.4.1 Prerequisites
    • 23.4.1.1 Naming a Template Asset
    • 23.4.1.2 Designating a Template as Typed or Typeless
    • 23.4.1.3 Template Sharing and Site Replication
  • 23.4.2 Procedures for Creating Template Assets
    • 23.4.2.1 Step 1: Open the 'Template' Form
    • 23.4.2.2 Step 2: Name and Describe the Template Asset
    • 23.4.2.3 Step 3: Configure the Template's Element
    • 23.4.2.4 Step 4: Configure SiteEntry
    • 23.4.2.5 Step 5: Configure the Map
    • 23.4.2.6 Step 6: (Optional) Create a Thumbnail
    • 23.4.2.7 Step 7: Inspect the Template
• 23.5 Creating CSElement Assets
  • 23.5.1 Prerequisites
    • 23.5.1.1 Naming the CSElement
    • 23.5.1.2 CSElement Sharing and Site Replication
  • 23.5.2 Procedures for Creating CSElement Assets
    • 23.5.2.1 Step 1: Open the 'CSElement' Form
    • 23.5.2.2 Step 2: Name and Describe the CSElement Asset
    • 23.5.2.3 Step 3: Configure the Element
    • 23.5.2.4 Step 4: Configure the Map
    • 23.5.2.5 Step 5: Save and Inspect the CSElement
    • 23.5.2.6 Step 6: Add the CSElement to Bookmarks
• 23.6 Creating SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.6.1 Prerequisites
  • 23.6.2 Procedures for Creating SiteEntry Assets
    • 23.6.2.1 Step 1: Open the 'SiteEntry' Form
    • 23.6.2.2 Step 2: Create the SiteEntry Asset
    • 23.6.2.3 Step 3. Save and Inspect the SiteEntry Asset
• 23.7 Managing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.7.1 Designating Default Approval Templates (Static Publishing Only)
  • 23.7.2 Editing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.7.3 Sharing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.7.4 Deleting Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
  • 23.7.5 Previewing Template, CSElement, and SiteEntry Assets
    • 23.7.5.1 Templates and Preview
    • 23.7.5.2 CSElement and SiteEntry Assets and Preview
• 23.8 Using Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer to Create and Edit Element Logic
  • 23.8.1 Creating Templates and CSElements
  • 23.8.2 Editing Templates and CSElements

24 Creating Templates and Wrappers

• 24.1 Working with Templates
  • 24.1.1 Layout Templates
    • 24.1.1.1 A layout template can be invoked from a browser
    • 24.1.1.2 A layout template can be assigned to an asset
    • 24.1.1.3 A layout template typically renders an entire web page
    • 24.1.1.4 Use Case 1: Building a Layout Template for Article Assets
  • 24.1.2 Pagelet Templates
    • 24.1.2.1 A pagelet template cannot be invoked directly from a browser
    • 24.1.2.2 A pagelet template cannot be assigned to an asset
    • 24.1.2.3 A pagelet template renders a page fragment
    • 24.1.2.4 Use Case 2: Using Pagelet Templates
  • 24.1.3 Page Templates
• 24.2 Working with Wrappers

25 Coding Templates for In-Context and Presentation Editing

• 25.1 Coding Templates for In-Context Content Editing
  • 25.1.1 Attribute Data Types
  • 25.1.2 String Fields
    • 25.1.2.1 Variants of the <insite:edit/> Tag
  • 25.1.3 Text Fields
  • 25.1.4 Date Fields
  • 25.1.5 Binary Fields
  • 25.1.6 Asset Fields
    • 25.1.6.1 Editing an Association
    • 25.1.6.2 Editing a Parent Asset
  • 25.1.7 Number Fields
  • 25.1.8 Multivalued Fields
    • 25.1.8.1 Example 1: Editing Multivalued Text Fields
    • 25.1.8.2 Example 2: Multivalued Text Fields
    • 25.1.8.3 Specifying a Different Ordering
    • 25.1.8.4 Editing Mode and Caching
• 25.2 Coding Templates for Presentation Editing
  • 25.2.1 Selecting a Different Layout for the Entire Web Page
  • 25.2.2 Selecting a Different Layout for a Page Fragment
    • 25.2.2.1 Defining a Slot for Presentation Editing
    • 25.2.2.2 Adjusting the Slot Title
    • 25.2.2.3 Controlling Template Arguments
  • 25.2.3 Editing Presentation and Content Simultaneously
    • 25.2.3.1 Understanding Content-Editable Slots and Presentation-Editable Slots
    • 25.2.3.2 Combining Content-Editable Slots and Presentation-Editable Slots
      • 25.2.3.2.1 Example: Combining a Content-Editable Slot and a Presentation-Editable Slot
  • 25.2.4 Understanding the Context System Variable
    • 25.2.4.1 Defining the Scope of the Slot
    • 25.2.4.2 Using the Context Variable in Action
    • 25.2.4.3 Initializing the Context Value
    • 25.2.4.4 Context Override
    • 25.2.4.5 Context and Caching
  • 25.2.5 Using Slots with CSElement and SiteEntry Assets
    • 25.2.5.1 Defining a Slot Containing a CSElement Asset
    • 25.2.5.2 Using CSElement or SiteEntry Assets
    • 25.2.5.3 Using Legal Arguments
    • 25.2.5.4 Using Nested Slots
  • 25.2.6 Constraining Asset Types
  • 25.2.7 Preventing CSS and JavaScript Conflicts
• 25.3 Enabling Content Creation for Web Mode
  • 25.3.1 Defining a Start Menu for In-content Creation
  • 25.3.2 Providing Layout Templates for In-Context Creation
    • 25.3.2.1 Adjusting Stylesheets
    • 25.3.2.2 Adjusting Stylesheets for Slots
  • 25.3.3 Providing Empty Value Indicators
  • 25.3.4 Providing Editing-Specific Presentation Logic

26 Creating Collection Assets, Query Assets, and Page Assets

• 26.1 Collection Assets
  • 26.1.1 Before You Begin
  • 26.1.2 Creating Collection Assets
  • 26.1.3 Sharing Collection Assets
• 26.2 Query Assets
  • 26.2.1 Query Assets and Other Assets
  • 26.2.2 How the Query Is Stored
  • 26.2.3 Commonly Used Fields for Queries
  • 26.2.4 Before You Begin
  • 26.2.5 Creating Query Assets
  • 26.2.6 Sharing Query Assets
  • 26.2.7 Previewing and Approving Query Assets
• 26.3 Page Assets
  • 26.3.1 Page Asset Model
  • 26.3.2 Designing Page Attributes
  • 26.3.3 Creating a Page Asset
  • 26.3.4 Placing Page Assets
  • 26.3.5 Moving Page Assets in the Site Tree
  • 26.3.6 Placing Page Assets and Workflow
  • 26.3.7 Editing Page Assets
  • 26.3.8 Deleting Page Assets

27 Best Practices for Creating Future Site Preview Assets and Templates

• 27.1 Considerations when Implementing Future Site Preview
• 27.2 Creating Sets of Assets
• 27.3 Writing Templates for Future Site Preview
  • 27.3.1 The asset:filterassetsbydate tag
  • 27.3.2 The Input List
• 27.4 Caching Considerations

28 Coding Elements for Templates and CSElements

• 28.1 About Dependencies
  • 28.1.1 The Publishing System and Approval Dependencies
    • 28.1.1.1 Calculating Approval Dependencies
    • 28.1.1.2 Exists vs. Exact vs. None
    • 28.1.1.3 Approval Templates for Export to Disk
    • 28.1.1.4 Subtypes, Flex Definitions, and Approval Templates
  • 28.1.2 Page Generation and Compositional Dependencies
• 28.2 About Coding to Log Dependencies
  • 28.2.1 ASSET.LOAD and asset:load
  • 28.2.2 The ASSETSET (assetset) Tag Family
  • 28.2.3 RENDER.GETPAGEURL and render:getpageurl
  • 28.2.4 RENDER.LOGDEP (render:logdep)
  • 28.2.5 RENDER.FILTER and render:filter
  • 28.2.6 RENDER.UNKNOWNDEPS and render:unknowndeps
• 28.3 Calling CSElement and SiteEntry Assets
• 28.4 Coding Elements to Display Basic Assets
  • 28.4.1 Assets That Represent Simple Content
  • 28.4.2 Associations
  • 28.4.3 ImageFile Assets or Other Blob Assets
  • 28.4.4 Basic Assets That Can Have Embedded Links
  • 28.4.5 Collections
    • 28.4.5.1 Collection Templates and Approval Dependencies
    • 28.4.5.2 Collection Templates and Compositional Dependencies
  • 28.4.6 Query Assets
  • 28.4.7 Page Assets
• 28.5 About Coding Elements that Display Flex Assets
  • 28.5.1 Assetsets
  • 28.5.2 Searchstates
  • 28.5.3 Assetsets, Searchstates, and Flex Attribute Asset Types
  • 28.5.4 Scope
• 28.6 Coding Templates That Display Flex Assets
  • 28.6.1 Example Data Set for the Examples in This Section
  • 28.6.2 Examples of Assetsets with One Product (Flex Asset)
    • 28.6.2.1 Create a Searchstate and Apply It to an Assetset
    • 28.6.2.2 Get the Price of the Product
    • 28.6.2.3 Display the Price of the Product
    • 28.6.2.4 Get the Colors for the Product
    • 28.6.2.5 Display the Colors of the Product
    • 28.6.2.6 Create a List Object for the ASSETSET.GETMULTIPLEVALUES tag
    • 28.6.2.7 Get the Value for Both Price and Color with ASSETSET.GETMULTIPLEVALUES
    • 28.6.2.8 Display the Value of Price and Color for the jeans-2 Product
  • 28.6.3 Special Cases: Flex Attributes of Type Text, Blob, and URL
    • 28.6.3.1 Flex Attributes of Type Text
    • 28.6.3.2 Flex Attributes of Type Blob
    • 28.6.3.3 Creating a BlobServer URL
    • 28.6.3.4 Getting and Displaying the Value of the Blob
  • 28.6.4 Examples of Assetsets with More Than One Product (Flex Asset)
    • 28.6.4.1 Create a Searchstate and Apply it to an Assetset
    • 28.6.4.2 Display the Number of Assets in the Assetset
    • 28.6.4.3 Display the Colors That the Jeans Are Available In
    • 28.6.4.4 Display Both the Colors and the Styles for the Jeans in the Assetset
    • 28.6.4.5 Create a Table That Displays All the Jeans and Their Attribute Values
    • 28.6.4.6 Search for Jeans Based on a Range of Prices
    • 28.6.4.7 Search for Jeans with a Wildcard for Color
    • 28.6.4.8 Search for Jeans with Specific Colors
• 28.7 Creating URLs for Hyperlinks
  • 28.7.1 RENDER.GETPAGEURL (render:getpageurl)
  • 28.7.2 RENDER.SATELLITEBLOB (render:satelliteblob)
  • 28.7.3 RENDER.GETBLOBURL (render:getbloburl)
  • 28.7.4 Using the referURL Variable
• 28.8 Handling Error Conditions
  • 28.8.1 Using the Errno Variable
  • 28.8.2 Ensuring that Incorrect Pages Are Not Cached

29 Template Element Examples for Basic Assets

• 29.1 Example 1: Basic Modular Design
  • 29.1.1 First Element: Home
  • 29.1.2 Second Element: MainStoryList
  • 29.1.3 Third Element: LeadSummary
  • 29.1.4 Fourth Element: TeaserSummary
  • 29.1.5 Back to LeadSummary
  • 29.1.6 Back to MainStoryList
  • 29.1.7 Back to Home
• 29.2 Example 2: Coding Links to the Article Assets in a Collection Asset
  • 29.2.1 First element: SectionFront
  • 29.2.2 Second element: PlainList
• 29.3 Example 3: Using the ct Variable
  • 29.3.1 First Element: SectionFront
  • 29.3.2 Second Element: TextOnlyLink
  • 29.3.3 ColumnistFront
• 29.4 Example 4: Coding Templates for Query Assets
  • 29.4.1 First Element: Home
  • 29.4.2 Second Element: WireFeedBox
  • 29.4.3 Third Element: ExecuteQuery
  • 29.4.4 Back to WireFeedBox
• 29.5 Example 5: Displaying an Article Asset Without a Template
  • 29.5.1 First Element: Full
  • 29.5.2 Second Element: AltVersionBlock
  • 29.5.3 Third Element: EmailFront
• 29.6 Example 6: Displaying Site Plan Information
  • 29.6.1 First Element: Home
  • 29.6.2 Second Element: SiteBanner
  • 29.6.3 Third Element: TopSiteBar
    • 29.6.3.1 Creating the Link for the Home Page
    • 29.6.3.2 Creating the Links to the Home Page's Child Pages
  • 29.6.4 Back to SiteBanner
• 29.7 Example 7: Displaying Non-Asset Information
  • 29.7.1 First Element: Home
  • 29.7.2 Second Element: ShowMainDate

30 Configuring Sites for Multilingual Support

• 30.1 Overview of Configuring a Site for Multilingual Support
  • 30.1.1 Dimensions
  • 30.1.2 Dimension Sets
  • 30.1.3 Cross-Site Multilingual Support
  • 30.1.4 Master Assets, Translations, and Multilingual Sets
  • 30.1.5 Translations and Asset Relationships
  • 30.1.6 Approval Dependencies
• 30.2 Working with Locale Filtering
  • 30.2.1 Handling Asset Relationships Through Locale Filtering
  • 30.2.2 Included Locale Filters
    • 30.2.2.1 The Simple Filter
    • 30.2.2.2 The SimpleLookup Filter
    • 30.2.2.3 The Hierarchical Filter
  • 30.2.3 Custom Locale Filters
  • 30.2.4 Compositional Dependencies
    • 30.2.4.1 Asset Lookup Chain
    • 30.2.4.2 Caching Rules
  • 30.2.5 Adding Filtering Support to Your Site
    • 30.2.5.1 Adding Filtering to Templates
    • 30.2.5.2 Obtaining and Maintaining a Visitor's Locale Preference
    • 30.2.5.3 Filtering Search Results
• 30.3 Planning Multilingual Support for a Site
• 30.4 Configuring Multilingual Support for a Site
  • 30.4.1 Configuration Quick Reference
  • 30.4.2 Enabling the Dimension and DimensionSet Asset Types
  • 30.4.3 Enabling the Locale Subtype of the Dimension Asset Type
  • 30.4.4 Creating a Locale
  • 30.4.5 Sharing a Locale to Another Site
  • 30.4.6 Creating and Configuring a Dimension Set
  • 30.4.7 Sharing a Dimension Set to Another Site
  • 30.4.8 Configuring a Locale Filter
  • 30.4.9 Configuring the Fallback Hierarchy of the Hierarchical Filter
  • 30.4.10 Bulk-Assigning a Default Locale to Assets in a Site
    • 30.4.10.1 Sample Element Code for Bulk-Assigning a Default Locale

31 User Management on the Delivery System

• 31.1 The Directory Services API
  • 31.1.1 Entries
  • 31.1.2 Hierarchies
  • 31.1.3 Groups
  • 31.1.4 Directory Services Tags
  • 31.1.5 Directory Operations
    • 31.1.5.1 Searching
    • 31.1.5.2 Lookup
    • 31.1.5.3 Listing Users
    • 31.1.5.4 Directory Services Code Samples
  • 31.1.6 Error Handling
  • 31.1.7 Troubleshooting Directory Services Applications
• 31.2 Controlling Visitor Access to Your Online Sites
  • 31.2.1 ACL Tags
  • 31.2.2 User Tags
  • 31.2.3 WebCenter Sites and Encryption
• 31.3 Creating Login Forms
  • 31.3.1 Prompt for Login (PromptForLogin.xml)
  • 31.3.2 Root Element for the Login Page
• 31.4 Creating User Account Creation Forms
  • 31.4.1 PromptForNewAccount
  • 31.4.2 Root Element for the CreateAccount Page
• 31.5 Visitor Access in the Burlington Financial Sample Site
  • 31.5.1 Membership Table
  • 31.5.2 Users and Passwords
  • 31.5.3 Member Accounts
  • 31.5.4 Membership Processing Elements

32 The HelloAssetWorld Sample Site

• 32.1 Overview of the HelloAssetWorld Sample Site
  • 32.1.1 HelloAssetWorld Templates
  • 32.1.2 HelloAssetWorld Asset Types
• 32.2 Modified Asset Types
  • 32.2.1 The HelloArticle Asset Type
  • 32.2.2 The HelloImage Asset Type
• 32.3 HelloAssetWorld Templates
  • 32.3.1 The HelloArticle Template
  • 32.3.2 The HelloCollection Template
  • 32.3.3 The HelloPage Template
• 32.4 The HelloQuery Asset

33 The Burlington Financial Sample Site

• 33.1 Overview of the Burlington Financial Sample Site
• 33.2 Navigation Features
  • 33.2.1 BurlingtonFinancial/Site/TopSiteBar.xml
  • 33.2.2 BurlingtonFinancial/Site/LeftSideSiteBar.xml
  • 33.2.3 BurlingtonFinancial/Site/BottomNavFooter.xml
  • 33.2.4 Breadcrumbs
• 33.3 Best Practices
  • 33.3.1 Searching
  • 33.3.2 Keywords
  • 33.3.3 Hot Topics
  • 33.3.4 Topic Directory
  • 33.3.5 Related Stories
  • 33.3.6 Text-Only Versions
  • 33.3.7 Plain Text Parallel Site
  • 33.3.8 Email This Story
  • 33.3.9 AssetMaker Asset Types
  • 33.3.10 Mimetype
  • 33.3.11 Collections of Collections
  • 33.3.12 Membership
  • 33.3.13 Wire Feed
  • 33.3.14 Featured Funds
  • 33.3.15 Fund Finder
  • 33.3.16 Page Cache Parameters

34 Customizing the WebCenter Sites Admin Interface

• 34.1 Overview of the Tree
  • 34.1.1 Loading the Tree Tabs
    • 34.1.1.1 Applet-Wide Parameters
    • 34.1.1.2 Tree-Specific Parameters
    • 34.1.1.3 Node Parameters
    • 34.1.1.4 Node Context Menu Commands
  • 34.1.2 Refreshing the Tree
• 34.2 Trees and Security
• 34.3 Tree Error Logging

35 Customizing Workflow

• 35.1 Workflow Step Conditions
• 35.2 Workflow Actions
  • 35.2.1 Step Action Elements
  • 35.2.2 Timed Action Elements
  • 35.2.3 Deadlock Action Elements
  • 35.2.4 Group Deadlock Action Elements
  • 35.2.5 Delegation Action Elements

36 Understanding Web Services

• 36.1 What Are Web Services?
• 36.2 SOAP and Web Services
• 36.3 Supported SOAP Version
• 36.4 Supported WSDL Version
• 36.5 Related Programming Technologies

37 Creating and Consuming Web Services

• 37.1 Using Predefined Web Services
  • 37.1.1 Accessible Information
  • 37.1.2 WSDL File Location
  • 37.1.3 Process Flow for Predefined Web Services
  • 37.1.4 Consider Your Data for Predefined Web Services
  • 37.1.5 Generating the Client Interface
  • 37.1.6 Writing Client Calls
• 37.2 Creating Custom Web Services
  • 37.2.1 Process Flow for Creating Custom Web Services
  • 37.2.2 Consider Your Data for Custom Web Services
  • 37.2.3 Creating a WebCenter Sites Page
  • 37.2.4 Writing a WebCenter Sites Element
  • 37.2.5 Creating a WSDL File
    • 37.2.5.1 Writing WSDL File Elements
    • 37.2.5.2 WSDL File Example

38 Creating Visitor Data Assets

• 38.1 About Visitor Data Assets
  • 38.1.1 Visitor Attributes
  • 38.1.2 History Attributes and History Definitions
  • 38.1.3 Segments
  • 38.1.4 Developing Visitor Data Assets: Process Overview
• 38.2 Creating Visitor Data Assets
  • 38.2.1 Creating Visitor Attributes
    • 38.2.1.1 Configure the Data Type
    • 38.2.1.2 Configure the Constraint Criteria
    • 38.2.1.3 Save the Attribute
  • 38.2.2 Creating History Attributes
    • 38.2.2.1 Configure the Constraint Criteria
    • 38.2.2.2 Save the History Attribute
  • 38.2.3 Creating History Definitions
• 38.3 Verifying Visitor Data Assets
• 38.4 Approving Visitor Data Assets

39 Recommendation Assets

• 39.1 Overview of Recommendation Assets
• 39.2 Development Process
• 39.3 Creating a Dynamic List Element

40 Coding Engage Pages

• 40.1 Commerce Context and Visitor Context
• 40.2 Identifying Visitors and Linking Sessions
• 40.3 Collecting Visitor Data
• 40.4 Coding Site Pages That Collect Visitor Data
  • 40.4.1 Example 1: Visitor Attributes
  • 40.4.2 Example 2: History Definition
  • 40.4.3 Example 3: Visitor Attribute of Type Binary
• 40.5 Templates and Recommendations
• 40.6 Shopping Carts and Engage
• 40.7 Debugging Site Pages
  • 40.7.1 Session Links
  • 40.7.2 Visitor Data Collection
  • 40.7.3 Recommendations and Promotions

41 Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking

• 41.1 Overview of Memory-Centric Visitor Tracking
  • 41.1.1 Database-centric Model
  • 41.1.2 Memory-centric Model
• 41.2 Enabling Memory-centric Visitor Tracking
  • 41.2.1 Visitor Tracking Property
  • 41.2.2 Supporting Code
  • 41.2.3 Batch-Saving History Attributes to the Database
• 41.3 How Memory-centric Visitor Tracking Works
  • 41.3.1 Visitor Detection
  • 41.3.2 Retrieving Scalar Values
  • 41.3.3 Collecting History Attribute Values
  • 41.3.4 Computing Sums and Counts
  • 41.3.5 Computing Segments
  • 41.3.6 Determining and Displaying Recommended Assets
  • 41.3.7 Logging Dependencies

42 Asset API Tutorial

• 42.1 Understanding the Asset API
• 42.2 Primary Interfaces
• 42.3 Getting Started
• 42.4 Asset API Read
  • 42.4.1 A Simple Example: Reading Field Values
  • 42.4.2 Reading AssetId
  • 42.4.3 Reading Attributes Given the Asset ID
  • 42.4.4 Query
  • 42.4.5 Complex Query
  • 42.4.6 Sorting
  • 42.4.7 Reading BlobObject
  • 42.4.8 Retrieving Multi-Valued Attributes
  • 42.4.9 Multilingual Assets: Retrieving Translations
  • 42.4.10 Reading Asset and Attribute Definitions
  • 42.4.11 Reading Key-Value Mappings
• 42.5 Asset API Write
  • 42.5.1 Creating New Assets
  • 42.5.2 Updating Existing Assets
  • 42.5.3 Deleting Existing Assets
  • 42.5.4 Multilingual Assets
• 42.6 Development Strategies
  • 42.6.1 Data Types and Attribute Data
  • 42.6.2 Query Types
  • 42.6.3 Data Types and Valid Query Operations
• 42.7 Optional: Setting Up to Use the Asset API from Standalone Java Programs

43 Public Site Search

• 43.1 Overview of the Search Framework
• 43.2 Index Types
  • 43.2.1 Global Index
  • 43.2.2 Asset Type Index
• 43.3 Search API Overview
  • 43.3.1 SearchEngine
  • 43.3.2 QueryExpression
  • 43.3.3 Configuration
• 43.4 Advanced Configuration
  • 43.4.1 Configuring Lucene Parameters
  • 43.4.2 Configuring the Custom AnalyzerFactory

44 Creating a Hierarchical Flex Family

• 44.1 Hierarchical Organization
• 44.2 Flex Family Specifications
• 44.3 Procedures
  • 44.3.1 Step 1: Create a Flex Family
  • 44.3.2 Step 2: Enable the New Flex Asset Types
  • 44.3.3 Step 3: Add a Flex Family Tab to WebCenter Sites's Tree
  • 44.3.4 Step 5: Create Parent Definition Assets
  • 44.3.5 Step 6: Create Flex Parent Assets
  • 44.3.6 Step 7: Create Flex Definition Assets
  • 44.3.7 Step 8: Create Flex Assets
  • 44.3.8 Step 9: Translate the Formulaic Data Model into a Real-World Data Model
  • 44.3.9 Step 10: Develop Your Real-World Model
• 44.4 Next Steps

45 WebCenter Sites URL Assemblers

• 45.1 Overview of WebCenter Sites URL Assemblers
  • 45.1.1 URL Assembly
  • 45.1.2 Assembler Discovery and Disassembly
  • 45.1.3 URL Assembly and Disassembly Using GET and POST Requests
• 45.2 Assemblers Installed with WebCenter Sites
  • 45.2.1 Query Assembler
  • 45.2.2 QueryAsPathInfo Assembler
• 45.3 Working with Assemblers
  • 45.3.1 Creating Assemblers
  • 45.3.2 Registering and Ranking Assemblers
  • 45.3.3 Modifying Link Tags
• 45.4 Generating Vanity URL Links in a Web Page

46 White Space and Compression

• 46.1 White Space and JSP
• 46.2 White Space and XML
• 46.3 Compression
• 46.4 JSP Design

47 Asset and Publish Events in WebCenter Sites

• 47.1 Types of Events
• 47.2 Asset Events
  • 47.2.1 Writing an Asset Event Listener
  • 47.2.2 Registering an Asset Event Listener
• 47.3 Publishing Events
  • 47.3.1 Writing a Publishing Event Listener
  • 47.3.2 Registering a Publishing Event Listener

48 Proxy Assets: Integrating Third-Party Content Sources

• 48.1 Introduction
• 48.2 User Interface Customizations
  • 48.2.1 Customizing the Search Start Menu
  • 48.2.2 Customizing the Content Tree
• 48.3 Integrating External Content in the WebCenter Sites Contributor Interface
  • 48.3.1 Case Study: The Dummy Repository
  • 48.3.2 Registering a New Proxy Asset Type
  • 48.3.3 Implementing UI Integration Code
  • 48.3.4 Customizing Search
    • 48.3.4.1 Get Search Results Using the Provided Third-Party API
    • 48.3.4.2 Turn Search Results into Proxy Assets, Filter Incoming Search Results, Register External Content, and Gather Data for Search Grid Widget
    • 48.3.4.3 Build a Data Store for the Grid Widget
    • 48.3.4.4 Testing Custom Search
    • 48.3.4.5 Additional Customizations
  • 48.3.5 Implementing a Custom Tree
    • 48.3.5.1 Registering the Custom Tree Tab
    • 48.3.5.2 Implementing the Tree Code
• 48.4 Embedding Proxy Assets in Web Pages
  • 48.4.1 Writing Template for Proxy Assets
  • 48.4.2 Using Proxy Assets in Slots
  • 48.4.3 Caching Proxy Assets

49 RealTime Publishing Customization Hooks

• 49.1 Overview of RealTime Publishing
• 49.2 Writing a Custom Transporter
  • 49.2.1 To Write Your Own Transporter
  • 49.2.2 Implementation Details
  • 49.2.3 Helper Methods
  • 49.2.4 Example of a Transporter Implementation
  • 49.2.5 Full Code Listing
  • 49.2.6 Edge-Case Scenarios
  • 49.2.7 Intercepting Asset Publishing Events on the Management Instance
  • 49.2.8 Finishing Touches

50 Coding the Crawler Configuration File

• 50.1 Overview of Controlling a Crawler
• 50.2 BaseConfigurator Methods
  • 50.2.1 getStartUri
  • 50.2.2 createLinkExtractor
• 50.3 Crawler Customization Methods
  • 50.3.1 getMaxLinks
  • 50.3.2 getMaxCrawlDepth
  • 50.3.3 getConnectionTimeout
• 50.4 getSocketTimeout
• 50.5 getPostExecutionCommand
• 50.6 getNumWorkers
• 50.7 getUserAgent
• 50.8 createResourceRewriter
• 50.9 createMailer
• 50.10 getProxyHost
• 50.11 getProxyCredentials
• 50.12 Interfaces
  • 50.12.1 LinkExtractor
    • 50.12.1.1 LinkExtractor Interface
    • 50.12.1.2 Using the Default Implementation of LinkExtractor
    • 50.12.1.3 Writing and Deploying a Custom Link Extractor
  • 50.12.2 ResourceRewriter
    • 50.12.2.1 ResourceRewriter Interface
    • 50.12.2.2 Using the Default Implementations of ResourceRewriter
    • 50.12.2.3 Writing a Custom ResourceRewriter
  • 50.12.3 Mailer
    • 50.12.3.1 Mailer Interface
    • 50.12.3.2 Using the Default Implementation of Mailer
    • 50.12.3.3 Writing a Custom Mailer
• 50.13 Summary of Methods and Interfaces
  • 50.13.1 Methods
  • 50.13.2 Interfaces

Part II Working with the Developer Tools

51 About Oracle WebCenter Sites: Developer Tools

• 51.1 Developer Tools Architecture
• 51.2 IDE Integration
• 51.3 The Developer Tools Workspace
• 51.4 Synchronization
• 51.5 JSP Management
• 51.6 Command-line Tool
• 51.7 Using a Version Control System
• 51.8 Next Steps

52 Developer Tools: Installing and Configuring

• 52.1 Prerequisites
• 52.2 Setting Up Developer Tools
• 52.3 Updating Developer Tools
• 52.4 Managing WebCenter Sites Resources in Eclipse
• 52.5 Uninstalling WebCenter Sites Developer Tools

53 Developer Tools: WebCenter Sites Features in Eclipse

• 53.1 Oracle WebCenter Sites Perspective
• 53.2 Configuration Screen
• 53.3 Project and Workspace in Eclipse
• 53.4 Developer Tools Views
  • 53.4.1 Sites Work
  • 53.4.2 Sites Log View
  • 53.4.3 Sites Preview Browser View
  • 53.4.4 Sites UI View
  • 53.4.5 Sites Logging Configuration View
  • 53.4.6 Sites Developer Reference View
  • 53.4.7 Wizards
• 53.5 Data Synchronization (Export/Import) Tool
  • 53.5.1 Sync to Workspace (Export from WebCenter Sites)
  • 53.5.2 Sync to WebCenter Sites (Import into WebCenter Sites)
• 53.6 Next Steps

54 Developer Tools: Developing JSPs

• 54.1 JSP Development with Developer Tools
• 54.2 Tag and Java API Completion
• 54.3 Debugging

55 Developer Tools: Creating Templates for Mobile Websites

• 55.1 Overview of Mobility Support in Developer Tools
• 55.2 Mobile Template Development with Developer Tools

56 Developer Tools: Synchronization and Data Exchange

• 56.1 Synchronization Using Developer Tools
• 56.2 Synchronization Scenarios
• 56.3 Dependency Resolution
• 56.4 ID Mapping
  • 56.4.1 ID Mapping Overview
  • 56.4.2 Overriding a Resource's fw_uid
  • 56.4.3 Using Developer Tools with Pre-Existing Resources
• 56.5 Site Mappings
  • 56.5.1 Natural Site Mappings
  • 56.5.2 Overriding Natural Site Mappings With the Command-line Tool

57 Developer Tools: Workspaces

• 57.1 Introduction to Workspaces
• 57.2 Workspace Structure
• 57.3 Asset Storage Structure
• 57.4 Code-Based Resource Storage Structure
• 57.5 Attribute Editor Storage Structure
• 57.6 Asset Type Storage Structure

58 Developer Tools: Command-Line Tool

• 58.1 Running and Using the Command-Line Tool
• 58.2 Example Commands
• 58.3 Creating Modules

59 Developer Tools: Integrating with Version Control Systems

• 59.1 About Version Control With Developer Tools
• 59.2 Integrating Developer Tools With a VCS
• 59.3 Working With a Developer Tools-Integrated VCS

60 Developer Tools: Development Team Integration Use Case

• 60.1 Today: Develop a Site and Associated Resources
• 60.2 Three Days Later... Deployment

61 Developer Tools: Using the Command-line Tool to Create Reusable Modules

• 61.1 Creating a Reusable Model
• 61.2 List the Resources in the WebCenter Sites Instance
• 61.3 List Start Menu Items
• 61.4 Export All Resources to the Desired Workspace
• 61.5 Inspect the Module's Content
• 61.6 Archive the Module
• 61.7 Import the Module to a WebCenter Sites Instance

Part III Customizing the Contributor Interface

62 About Customizing the Oracle WebCenter Sites Contributor Interface

• 62.1 Before You Begin
• 62.2 What Can You Customize in the Contributor Interface?
• 62.3 Where to Find Sample Code?
• 62.4 Where to Begin?

63 Contributor Interface: Understanding the Framework and UI Controller

• 63.1 Overview of the Contributor Framework
• 63.2 UI Controller
  • 63.2.1 How the UI Controller Processes Requests
  • 63.2.2 Example: UI Controller Processing an Element Request
• 63.3 Custom Elements
  • 63.3.1 Element Storage
  • 63.3.2 How the UI Controller Locates Elements
  • 63.3.3 Element Naming Conventions in This Guide

64 Contributor Interface: Customizing the Dashboard

• 64.1 Overview of Dashboard Customization
• 64.2 Customizing the Dashboard
• 64.3 Examples of Customizing the Dashboard
  • 64.3.1 Adding a 'Hello World' Widget
  • 64.3.2 Adding a Widget that Shows Recently Modified Assets

65 Contributor Interface: Customizing Search Views

• 65.1 Overview of Search View Customization
  • 65.1.1 Types of Search Views
  • 65.1.2 What You Can Customize in Search Views
  • 65.1.3 View-Rendering Process
  • 65.1.4 Configuration Elements for Search Views
• 65.2 Customization Processes
• 65.3 Customizing Undocked Views
  • 65.3.1 Basic Steps for Customizing Undocked Views
  • 65.3.2 Setting the Default Undocked View to List or Thumbnail
  • 65.3.3 Customizing the Undocked List View
  • 65.3.4 Customizing the Undocked Thumbnail View
    • 65.3.4.1 More About the <assettypes> Section in the ThumbnailViewConfig Element
      • 65.3.4.1.1 If You Wish to Use Static Icons
      • 65.3.4.1.2 If You Wish to Re-use the System-Defined Image Thumbnail Element
      • 65.3.4.1.3 If You Wish to Use a Custom Thumbnail-Rendering Element
• 65.4 Customizing Docked Views
• 65.5 Customizing Sort Menus and Tooltips
  • 65.5.1 Customizing Sort Menus
  • 65.5.2 Customizing Tooltips for Search Results
  • 65.5.3 Customizing Context Menus

66 Contributor Interface: Customizing Global Properties, Toolbar, and Menu Bar

• 66.1 Customizing Global Configuration Properties
  • 66.1.1 Overview of the Configuration Properties
  • 66.1.2 Modifying Default Configuration Properties
  • 66.1.3 Adding Custom Configuration Properties
    • 66.1.3.1 Adding Custom Global Properties
    • 66.1.3.2 Adding Site-Specific Properties
• 66.2 Customizing the Toolbar
  • 66.2.1 Overview of Toolbar Customization
  • 66.2.2 Examples of Toolbar Customization
    • 66.2.2.1 Customizing the Toolbar with Standard Actions for Web Mode
    • 66.2.2.2 Customizing the Toolbar with Standard Actions for Asset Type and Subtype
    • 66.2.2.3 Customizing the Toolbar with Custom Actions
• 66.3 Customizing the Menu Bar
  • 66.3.1 Overview of Menu Bar Customization
  • 66.3.2 Adding a Custom Action to the Menu Bar
• 66.4 Customizing Context Menus

67 Contributor Interface: Customizing Asset Forms

• 67.1 Overview of Asset Forms Customization
• 67.2 Modifying the Header of Asset Forms
• 67.3 Building an Attribute Editor
  • 67.3.1 Creating a Dojo Widget and its Template
    • 67.3.1.1 Create a Template for the Dojo Widget
    • 67.3.1.2 Creating a Dojo Widget
  • 67.3.2 Defining the Attribute Editor as a Presentation Object
  • 67.3.3 Creating the Attribute Editor Element
  • 67.3.4 Creating the Attribute Editor
  • 67.3.5 Implementing a Multi-Valued Attribute Editor

Part IV Configuring Oracle WebCenter Sites: Mobility

68 Configuring Oracle WebCenter Sites: Mobility to Support Mobile Websites

• 68.1 Prerequisites for Developers
• 68.2 Key Mobility Concepts
  • 68.2.1 Device Repository
  • 68.2.2 Device Groups and Suffixes
  • 68.2.3 Device Assets
  • 68.2.4 Site Plans
  • 68.2.5 Mobile Templates
• 68.3 Prerequisites for Configuring Mobility Features
• 68.4 Configuring Mobility Features
  • 68.4.1 Step 1: Enabling the Mobility Tab
  • 68.4.2 Step 2: Setting Up the Device Repository
    • 68.4.2.1 Determining Which Device Repository is Active
    • 68.4.2.2 Modifying the Default Device Repository
    • 68.4.2.3 Uploading the Third-Party Device Repository
  • 68.4.3 Step 3: Configuring Device Groups
    • 68.4.3.1 Creating Custom Filters for Device Group Criteria
  • 68.4.4 Step 4: Prioritizing Device Groups
  • 68.4.5 Step 5: Creating Device Assets
  • 68.4.6 Step 6: Creating Site Plans
  • 68.4.7 Step 7: Organizing Site Plans
  • 68.4.8 Step 8: Creating Templates
    • 68.4.8.1 Basic Guidelines for Creating Template Variants
    • 68.4.8.2 Mobility Tags
    • 68.4.8.3 Tags Modified to Support Device Detection and Page Rendering
• 68.5 Device Detection

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

69 About the Web Experience Management (WEM) Framework

• 69.1 Overview of the WEM Framework
• 69.2 Prerequisites for Application Development
  • 69.2.1 Technologies
  • 69.2.2 WebCenter Sites Interfaces, Objects, and APIs
  • 69.2.3 Documentation
  • 69.2.4 Sample Applications and Files
  • 69.2.5 Application Access
• 69.3 Getting Started

70 WEM Framework: Understanding the Framework and Services

• 70.1 Support for Application Development
• 70.2 REST Services
• 70.3 UI Container
  • 70.3.1 Registration
  • 70.3.2 WEM Context Object
• 70.4 Single Sign-On
• 70.5 Authorization Model
• 70.6 Custom Applications
• 70.7 Requirements for REST Resources

71 WEM Framework: The Articles Sample Application

• 71.1 Overview of the Sample Application
• 71.2 Launching the Articles Sample Application
  • 71.2.1 Building and Deploying the 'Articles' Application
  • 71.2.2 Registering the Articles Sample Application
• 71.3 Testing the Articles Application

72 WEM Framework: Developing Applications

• 72.1 Application Structure
• 72.2 Configuration Files
• 72.3 Making REST Calls
  • 72.3.1 Making REST Calls from JavaScript
  • 72.3.2 Making REST Calls from Java
• 72.4 Constructing URLs to Serve Binary Data
• 72.5 Context Object: Accessing Parameters from the WEM Framework
  • 72.5.1 Same Domain Implementations
  • 72.5.2 Cross-Domain Implementations
  • 72.5.3 Methods Available in Context Object
• 72.6 Registration Code
  • 72.6.1 Registering Applications with an iframe View
  • 72.6.2 Registering Applications with JavaScript and HTML Views
    • 72.6.2.1 JavaScript View
    • 72.6.2.2 HTML View

73 WEM Framework: Developing Custom REST Resources

• 73.1 The Recommendations Sample Application
  • 73.1.1 Building and Deploying the Application
  • 73.1.2 Testing the Application
• 73.2 Creating REST Resources
  • 73.2.1 Application Structure
  • 73.2.2 Steps for Implementing Custom REST Resources

74 WEM Framework: Single Sign-On for Production Sites

• 74.1 Deploying the SSO Sample Application
• 74.2 Application Structure
• 74.3 Implementing Single Sign-On
• 74.4 Implementing Single Sign-Out

75 WEM Framework: Using REST Resources

• 75.1 Authentication for REST Resources
  • 75.1.1 Acquiring Tickets from Java Code
  • 75.1.2 Acquiring Tickets from Other Programming Languages (Over HTTP)
  • 75.1.3 Using Tickets and Multitickets
  • 75.1.4 SSO Configuration for Standalone Applications
    • 75.1.4.1 Beans and Properties
    • 75.1.4.2 Query Parameters Processed by SSO Filter
• 75.2 Configuring CAS
• 75.3 REST Authorization
  • 75.3.1 Security Model
  • 75.3.2 Using the Security Model to Access REST Resources
  • 75.3.3 Configuring REST Security
  • 75.3.4 Privilege Resolution Algorithm
• 75.4 Managing Assets Over REST

76 WEM Framework: Customizable Single Sign-On Facility

• 76.1 Customizing Login Behavior for the WEM Framework
• 76.2 Components of the Default CSSO Implementation
• 76.3 Configuring and Deploying Custom SSO Behavior
  • 76.3.1 Extending the Default CSSO Classes
  • 76.3.2 Identifying Your Java Classes to Spring for Instantiation
    • 76.3.2.1 Creating a Spring Configuration File
    • 76.3.2.2 Placing Your Spring Configuration File
  • 76.3.3 Mapping External User Identifiers to WebCenter Sites Credentials
  • 76.3.4 Restarting the CAS Web Application
• 76.4 Running the CSSO Sample Implementation
  • 76.4.1 Sample CSSO Classes
  • 76.4.2 Sample Spring Configuration File
    • 76.4.2.1 Analyzing the Sample Spring Configuration File
    • 76.4.2.2 Placing the Sample Spring Configuration File
  • 76.4.3 Sample CSSO Components

77 WEM Framework: Buffering

• 77.1 Architecture
• 77.2 Using Buffering

78 WEM Framework: Registering Applications Manually

• 78.1 Registration Steps
• 78.2 Reference: Registration Asset Types
  • 78.2.1 FW_View Asset Type
  • 78.2.2 FW_Application Asset Type

Part VI Developing the Community-Gadgets Application

79 About Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community-Gadgets

• 79.1 Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community-Gadgets
• 79.2 Community-Gadgets Management and Production Components
• 79.3 Technical Overview of Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community-Gadgets
• 79.4 Prerequisites

80 Community-Gadgets: Integrating with Social Networking Services

• 80.1 About Authentication Plug-Ins
• 80.2 Integrating with Facebook
  • 80.2.1 Create a Facebook Application for Community-Gadgets
  • 80.2.2 Configure Facebook Application Authentication Settings on the Community-Gadgets Web Application
• 80.3 Integrating with Twitter
  • 80.3.1 Create a Twitter Application for Community-Gadgets
  • 80.3.2 Configure Twitter Application Authentication Settings on Community-Gadgets
• 80.4 Integrating with Google
  • 80.4.1 Create a Google Application for Community-Gadgets
  • 80.4.2 Configure Google Application Authentication Settings on Community-Gadgets
• 80.5 Integrating with Janrain
  • 80.5.1 Create a Janrain Application for Community-Gadgets
  • 80.5.2 Configure Janrain Application Authentication Settings on Community-Gadgets
• 80.6 Integrating with Oracle Internet Access Service
  • 80.6.1 Configuring WebLogic Server to Support Mobile and Social Identity Providers
  • 80.6.2 Enabling Mobile and Social Service on OAM
  • 80.6.3 Defining Internet Identity Providers for OMSAS
  • 80.6.4 Creating a New Mobile and Social Application Profile
    • 80.6.4.1 Create a Mobile and Social Application Profile using the OAM Console Application
    • 80.6.4.2 Create an Application Profile using WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) Script
  • 80.6.5 Enabling the Integration of OMSAS with Community-Gadgets
• 80.7 Enabling Social Networking Services on WebSphere Application Server
  • 80.7.1 Export Security Certificate
  • 80.7.2 Import Security Certificates into WebSphere

81 Community-Gadgets: Customizing Its Functionality

• 81.1 Overview of Community-Gadgets Data Model
  • 81.1.1 Comments
    • 81.1.1.1 CommentFeed
    • 81.1.1.2 CommentRecord
  • 81.1.2 Reviews
    • 81.1.2.1 ReviewFeed
    • 81.1.2.2 ReviewRecord
  • 81.1.3 Ratings
    • 81.1.3.1 RatingFeed
    • 81.1.3.2 RatingRecord
  • 81.1.4 Polls
  • 81.1.5 Topics
  • 81.1.6 Visitors
    • 81.1.6.1 User
    • 81.1.6.2 UserIdentity
    • 81.1.6.3 UserLink
  • 81.1.7 Gadgets and Dashboard
    • 81.1.7.1 Gadget
    • 81.1.7.2 OpenSocialDescriptor
    • 81.1.7.3 SingleGadgetData
    • 81.1.7.4 GadgetSet
• 81.2 Customizing CSS and Widget Templates
  • 81.2.1 Customizing CSS: Color Schema and Skinning
    • 81.2.1.1 Customizing Comments and Reviews Widgets
    • 81.2.1.2 Customizing Other Widgets
  • 81.2.2 Customizing a Widget Template
    • 81.2.2.1 Understanding Community Widgets Templates
      • 81.2.2.1.1 Context Variable Access Points
      • 81.2.2.1.2 Dynamic Scripting
      • 81.2.2.1.3 Widget Sources and Templates
      • 81.2.2.1.4 Model-View-Controller Pattern
      • 81.2.2.1.5 Model-View-Controller Regions
      • 81.2.2.1.6 Nested Templates
      • 81.2.2.1.7 Customization Workflow
      • 81.2.2.1.8 Attach Points in the Widget Template Structure
    • 81.2.2.2 Creating a Sample Template
    • 81.2.2.3 Loading Custom Data Sets
• 81.3 Creating a Custom Word Filter
• 81.4 Creating a CAPTCHA Generator
• 81.5 Customizing Dashboard Themes
• 81.6 Community-Gadgets Events Handling
  • 81.6.1 Event Entities
    • 81.6.1.1 CommentEvent Entity
    • 81.6.1.2 ReviewEvent Entity
    • 81.6.1.3 RatingEvent Entity
    • 81.6.1.4 ExternalAuthEvent Entity
  • 81.6.2 Event Listeners
    • 81.6.2.1 Creating a Simple Listener
    • 81.6.2.2 Developing Event Notification Listeners - Process Method
    • 81.6.2.3 Developing Event Notification Listeners - Sending Email

82 Community-Gadgets: Localizing Its Functionality

• 82.1 About Localization
  • 82.1.1 Language Detection for the Community-Gadgets Interface
  • 82.1.2 Language Detection for Community-Gadgets
• 82.2 Adding a New Language to Community-Gadgets
• 82.3 Registering the New Language in Community-Gadgets

83 Community-Gadgets: Monitoring Its Performance

• 83.1 About Caching
• 83.2 Community-Gadgets With Cache
  • 83.2.1 Understanding Community-Gadgets
  • 83.2.2 Regular Caching
  • 83.2.3 Stale Caching
  • 83.2.4 Caching Dependencies
• 83.3 Configuring Cache in Community-Gadgets
• 83.4 Optimizing User-Generated Content (UGC) in the Community Application

84 Community-Gadgets: Guidelines for Maintaining the Application

• 84.1 Widget Deployment Guidelines
• 84.2 Adjusting Logging Levels
  • 84.2.1 Configuring log4j Loggers
  • 84.2.2 Enabling Logging for SEO Widget JAR Files
• 84.3 Reporting Issues

85 Community-Gadgets: Analyzing Community Widget Tags

• 85.1 Comments Widget Tags
  • 85.1.1 Comments Widget Tag
  • 85.1.2 Comments Summary Widget Tag
  • 85.1.3 Links to Topics Widget Tag
    • 85.1.3.1 Deploying the Links to Topics Widget Tag (for Comments)
  • 85.1.4 Recently Commented Widget Tag
  • 85.1.5 Most Commented Widget Tag
• 85.2 Reviews Widget Tags
  • 85.2.1 Reviews Widget Tag
  • 85.2.2 Reviews Summary Widget Tag
  • 85.2.3 Links to Topics Widget Tag
    • 85.2.3.1 Deploying the Links to Topics Widget Tag (For Reviews)
  • 85.2.4 Reviews Average Rating Widget Tag
  • 85.2.5 Top Ranked Reviews Widget Tag
  • 85.2.6 Recently Reviewed Widget Tag
  • 85.2.7 Most Reviewed Widget Tag
• 85.3 Ratings Widget Tags
  • 85.3.1 Stars Ratings Widget Tag
  • 85.3.2 Thumbs Up/Down Ratings Widget Tag
  • 85.3.3 Like It Ratings Widget Tag
  • 85.3.4 Recommend Ratings Widget Tag
  • 85.3.5 Ratings Average Rating Widget Tag
  • 85.3.6 Recently Rated Widget Tag
  • 85.3.7 Most Rated Widget Tag
• 85.4 Login Bar Widget Tag
• 85.5 Poll Widget Tags
  • 85.5.1 Main Poll Widget Tag
  • 85.5.2 Poll Results Widget Tag

86 Community-Gadgets: Enabling SEO Support for Community Widgets

• 86.1 Overview
• 86.2 Enabling SEO Support

87 Community-Gadgets: Deploying the CSS Tag

• 87.1 Overview
• 87.2 Deploying the CSS Tag

Part VII Developing Community Blogs

88 Community Blogs: Data Model

• 88.1 Overview of the Blog Flex Family
• 88.2 Flex Family Members
  • 88.2.1 Default Blog Attributes
  • 88.2.2 Default Blog Category Definitions and Blog Categories
  • 88.2.3 Default Blog Asset Definition and Blog Assets
  • 88.2.4 Default Blog Author Category Definition and Blog Author Category
  • 88.2.5 Default Blog Author Definition and Blog Authors
  • 88.2.6 Default Blog Filters

89 Community Blogs: Sample Blog Pages

• 89.1 Overview of the Sample Blog Pages
• 89.2 Components of the Sample Blog Pages
  • 89.2.1 Default Blog CSElements
  • 89.2.2 Default Blog SiteEntry Asset
  • 89.2.3 Default Blog Templates
  • 89.2.4 Blog Archive More Link Functionality
• 89.3 Next Steps

90 Community Blogs: Customizing Blog Components

• 90.1 Customizing the Blog Asset Form
  • 90.1.1 Creating a Blog Attribute
  • 90.1.2 Adding a Blog Attribute to the Blog Asset Definition
• 90.2 Adding Blog Functionality to CM Sites
  • 90.2.1 Creating Blog Pages
  • 90.2.2 Adding Blog Code
  • 90.2.3 Adding Community-Gadgets Functionality
  • 90.2.4 Adding Blog Parameters to Your Site's SiteEntry Asset
• 90.3 Customizing URLs for the RSS Feed

Part VIII Developing Gadgets

91 About Developing Gadgets

• 91.1 Before You Begin
• 91.2 Gadget Specifications
  • 91.2.1 Asset Model and Templates
  • 91.2.2 Sample Assets
  • 91.2.3 Auxiliary Files
• 91.3 Sample Gadgets
  • 91.3.1 List Gadget
  • 91.3.2 ThumbList Gadget
  • 91.3.3 Slideshow Gadget
  • 91.3.4 RSS Feed Gadget
• 91.4 Asset Structure

92 Gadgets: Template Flow

• 92.1 Template Flow for the List Gadget
• 92.2 Differences in Template Flow
  • 92.2.1 ThumbList and Slideshow
  • 92.2.2 RSS
• 92.3 Why Server Calls are Done Separately

93 Gadgets: Creating Your Own Gadgets

• 93.1 Creating Gadgets on Different CM Sites
• 93.2 Custom Gadgets
  • 93.2.1 New Gadget, WebCenter Sites Generates Only XML
  • 93.2.2 New Gadget, WebCenter Sites Generates XML and Fields Additional Requests
  • 93.2.3 Same Gadget Logic, Different Content
  • 93.2.4 Analyzing the Sample RSSFeed Gadget
• 93.3 Prerequisites for Registering Gadgets

Part IX Developing a Java Connector and Plugin for CIP

94 Integrating with Custom Source Systems

• 94.1 Customizing WebCenter Sites: Content Integration Platform
• 94.2 Content Integration Agent

95 Creating Adapters and Plug-Ins

• 95.1 Overview of Creating Adapters and Plug-Ins
• 95.2 Creating a Java Source Adapter
• 95.3 Creating a Java Plug-In
• 95.4 Enabling javafacility
• 95.5 Troubleshooting and Debugging