Managing Features

These topics discuss how to manage features:

About Features

Features are JavaScript libraries that provide apps with specific functionality, such as communicating with the Oracle Social Network Server, adding interactive behavior, or manipulating data. Oracle Social Network adds several features as part of the installation process. Under normal circumstances you do not need to change features that are included with Oracle Social Network, but you might want to add features that are needed by new apps that you add into the environment.

Do not modify or disable any of the default features unless advised to do so by Oracle Support. Doing so might disable critical functions of Oracle Social Network.

From the Features pages, you can add features, and enable, configure, disable, or remove existing features. Features currently installed in Oracle Social Network are listed, along with fields indicating a version number and a date/time stamp indicating the most recent update to the feature files.

Adding a Feature

When you add a feature, Oracle Social Network uploads the file for the feature and adds (deploys) it.

Log in to Oracle Social Network as an administrator.
From the Administration UI, click Features. The Features page opens and lists the features.
Click New Feature.
Enter a name for the feature in the Feature Name field.
Enter a version number for the feature in the Version field. You can have more than one version of a feature on the system; each version is shown separately in the feature list.
Click Create.
Open the properties file for the new feature and add its feature file. For more information, see Editing Feature Properties.

Deleting a Feature

To delete a feature, click Delete to the right of the feature in the list.

Note: Deleting a feature removes it only from the Oracle Social Network application. The actual file used to create the feature is not deleted.

Editing Feature Properties

Do not make changes to the default features that come with Oracle Social Network unless advised to do so by Oracle Support. Doing so might disable critical functions of Oracle Social Network.

Log in to Oracle Social Network as an administrator.
From the Administration UI, click Features. The Features page opens and lists the features.
Select the feature that you want to change. Its properties page opens.
Edit the properties of the feature. For more information about fields in the user interface, see Features Properties Page.
(Optional) To edit the properties of the feature files for the feature, select the file in the Feature Files list, edit its properties, then click Save.
(Optional) The order of feature files is significant. To change the order of the JavaScript files for a feature, click Move Up or Move Down next to the file that you want to move.
Click Save.

Features Properties Page

Select a feature in the list to edit its properties.

Element	Description
Feature	These general properties are at the top of the page.
Feature Name	The name of the feature.
Version	The version of the feature. The version must contain only numbers and one or more period (.) characters. You can have more than one version of a feature on the system; each version is listed separately in the feature list.
ID	Not editable. An identifier assigned by the system.
Type	Not editable. An identifier assigned by the system for the feature type.
Last Modified	Not editable. Shows the most recent date and time that configuration changes were made to the feature.
Feature Files	Each feature file for the feature is listed. Click the file name to edit it.
File Name	The name of the feature file.
File Order	The order of the file in the feature files list.
File MIME Type	Not editable. A MIME type assigned by the system for the feature type, based on the content of the file.
File Length	Not editable. The length of the file in bytes.
Last Modified	Not editable. Shows the most recent date and time that configuration changes were made to the file.
Add Feature File	To add a new file, click Select File. Browse to the location of the file you want, and click Upload.