Delivered Related Content Services for Oracle WebCenter

PeopleTools provides these service definitions for use with Oracle WebCenter:

• WebCenter Blogs service

• WebCenter Discussions service

• WebCenter Documents service

• WebCenter Links service

• WebCenter Wikis service

Note:

As of PeopleTools 8.54, integration with Oracle WebCenter through the delivered related content services has been desupported. These service definitions may be removed from a future release of PeopleTools.

These related content services provide features of Oracle WebCenter that can be added to PeopleSoft application pages through the PeopleSoft Related Content Framework. While the service definitions are provided in PeopleTools, an active Oracle WebCenter database is required to provide the services and to store the related data.

See Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

Note:

Oracle recommends that you have a WebCenter that you dedicate solely to your PeopleSoft applications integration.

WebCenter Blogs Service

Blogs provide a useful tool for discussing or evangelizing any type of idea, strategy, or point of view. Blogs may be projected out to a select group of people or to a wider audience. Typically, blogs invite readers to comment on the overall concepts.

The Blogs service enables users to create instance specific or shared WebCenter blogs, which appear for all transaction instances of the transaction page.

WebCenter Discussion Service

The Discussions service lets you expose discussion forums on your application pages, so users can create forums, post questions, and search for answers. For example, customers can share product reviews, or a customer service department can answer questions online. Discussion forums additionally provide the means to preserve and revisit discussions.

The Discussion service enables users to create instance specific or shared WebCenter discussions, which appears for all transaction instances of the transaction page.

WebCenter Documents Service

The Documents service provides features for accessing, adding, and managing folders and files; configuring file and folder properties; and searching file and folder content in the connected content repositories. When you set up a content repository connection to integrate the Documents service, you can add content to the transaction pages of the PeopleSoft application.

The Documents service enables users to create instance specific or shared WebCenter documents, which appears for all transaction instances of the transaction page.

WebCenter Links Service

The Links service provides a way to view, access, and associate related information. For example, in a list of project assignments, you can link to the specifications relevant to each assignment. In a discussion thread about a problem with a particular task, you can link to a document that provides a detailed description of how to perform that task.

The Links service enables users to create instance specific links or shared links, which appears for all transaction instances of the transaction page. When the transaction page or instance also uses other WebCenter related content services, related links to the other WebCenter group spaces appear by default and cannot be removed.

Unlike other WebCenter related content services, the Links service is a PeopleSoft component-based page. When you click the links in the service, the target opens in a new browser window.

WebCenter Wiki Service

A wiki is a collection of useful content or information that users can browse, update, and remove, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and the variety of operations make wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring, where multiple people create written content together.

The wiki service enables users to create instance specific wiki pages or shared WebCenter wiki pages, which appears for all transaction instances of the transaction page.