67 Orphaned Content

WebCenter Sites Help

One task that synchronization cannot accomplish is deleting synchronized assets that have dependents. This results in orphaned content.

Orphaned content is an asset that you cannot delete when its counterpart content item is either deleted, expired, or disabled from synchronization (by having its Sync To Sites option set to False). You cannot delete the orphaned asset because dependencies were created on that asset since the last synchronization session.

Note:

If a synchronized asset is shared across content management sites, it is deleted, unless it has dependents.

To determine orphaned assets:

1. From the Admin interface, in the General Admin tree, open the Connector Admin node.
2. Select Orphaned Content to open the Connector Orphaned Content table.

   The Connector Orphaned Content table shows the following columns, which identify the deleted source content items, the orphaned assets, and their dependent assets:

   • The Content ID column lists Content IDs for the content items that were deleted or disabled from synchronization in WebCenter Content.

   • The Connector Token column lists the update_number for the token, from which you can derive the date and time when the content items were processed by the connector. You can obtain date and time from the WCS Queue Support Information table, described in “Rolling Back the Synchronization Point” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

   • The Asset ID column lists the orphaned assets by their WebCenter Sites asset IDs.

   • The Referenced By column lists the dependent assets (which reference the orphaned assets).

   • The Remark column lists additional information (if any) for orphaned assets.

3. Use the Connector Orphaned Content table to locate the orphaned assets in WebCenter Content. More information about deleted content items is available in WebCenter Content.