Understanding WebCenter Spaces

Within any company, large groups or departments often must create smaller groups to focus on a particular goal, project, or even topic. To help these groups organize themselves, Oracle WebCenter uses the concept of spaces as the nexus for bringing content together. Spaces provide a meaningful way to manage all project details involving any group of users. The WebCenter Spaces application creates spaces to help PeopleSoft application users share information and interact in a collaborative setting.

Templates

Oracle WebCenter Spaces application provides templates for building spaces that support different types of endeavors. When a user accesses a transaction page for the first time, WebCenter creates a new group space for the page or its transaction instance. The template specifications determine the services that appear by default in the new group space. You can install and use the PeopleSoft template that your PeopleTools installation includes, you can use an out-of-the-box WebCenter template, or create and install your own custom template using an existing group space as the basis for the template.

When you configure the WebCenter options in your PeopleSoft applications, PeopleTools requires that you specify the default template for use with new PeopleSoft transaction group spaces. PeopleTools uses web services to retrieve group space template information from the WebCenter server, and then display the group space services in the bottom related content frame.