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You navigate through Oracle WebCenter Sites: Contributor using the components of its interface.

For information about the most commonly used components of the Oracle WebCenter Sites: Contributor interface, see these sections:

  • Menu Bar

  • Navigation Pane

  • Workspace: Home Tab

  • Workspace: Asset Tab

  • Search and Browse Tabs

  • Split View: Asset Tab and Search Results List

Menu Bar

The menu bar contains the following options:

  • Content: Opens a menu containing options to manage the assets you are currently working with. These include the options for creating an asset, saving an asset, approving an asset for publishing, bookmarking an asset, sharing an asset to another site, and setting access permissions for a specific asset.

  • Edit: Opens a menu containing content management tools to inspect, modify, copy, and delete an asset. This menu also allows you to change the layout (template) assigned to an asset and work with revision tracking.

  • View: Opens a menu containing tools to view an asset in either Form View or Web View and options for previewing an asset in different ways, such as previewing an asset using a different layout (template) or site wrapper, or previewing an asset in a separate browser window. This menu also contains an option to view an asset's status summary form, which contains information about the asset's workflow and approval status.

  • Down-arrow icon: Click this icon to open the applications bar. When you first log in to WebCenter Sites, the applications bar is open, in which case you see an up-arrow icon which you can click to close the applications bar. The applications bar contains the following:

    • Up to five of your most recently used applications. You can switch to a different application for which you have permissions without having to log back in to WebCenter Sites.

      If you have permissions to access the Admin interface, the Admin application icon is available in the applications bar. Clicking this icon opens the Admin interface.

    • Your user name, which you can click to manage your profile.

    • Sites drop-down menu, which enables you to switch to a different site to which you have permissions.

    • Logout button, which ends your session and logs you out of WebCenter Sites.

Navigation Pane

The navigation pane is located on the left of the Contributor interface.

Note:

Drag the right edge of the navigation pane to adjust the pane's width. To hide the navigation pane, click the Hide Tree Navigation bar, located on the right edge of the navigation pane.

The navigation pane contains the following sections:

  • Site Tree: Provides a hierarchical view of the way the pages on your websites are organized. Pages can be placed in a hierarchy under a site plan (which represents the navigation of a website) or unplaced (the page is not part of a site plan). There can be multiple site plans contained within a single CM site.

  • Content Tree: Shows the asset types and flex relationship hierarchies available in the current site. Double-click a parent asset to open a Browse tab, and view the associated child assets.

  • My Work  tree: Allows you to keep track of your workload. The My Work tree contains the Bookmarks and History nodes, as follows:

    • Bookmarks: Returns a list of assets that you have bookmarked. Bookmarked assets are also listed in the Bookmarks widget on the dashboard (located in the Home tab).

    • History: Returns a list of assets you have worked on during the current session in the current site. This list is cleared every time you log out of WebCenter Sites.

    Note:

    The My Work tree is used only for managing and organizing your work. You cannot use the My Work tree to group assets for delivery purposes.

  • Marketing Tree: Shows the assets available for marketing and analyzing on your website such as segments, recommendations, promotions and assets associated with A/B Tests.

Workspace Home Tab

The workspace is at the center of the Contributor interface. The Home tab is the first tab you see when you first log in to the Contributor interface. This tab contains your dashboard.

Note:

You can return to the Home tab at any time by clicking the Home tab. The Home tab cannot be closed.

The dashboard may look different from user to user. This is because your dashboard only displays information pertaining to you. You can even reposition the widgets on your dashboard by dragging and dropping the widgets into a different location on the dashboard. The following provides information about the widgets on your dashboard:

  • Bookmarks: When you bookmark an asset for easy retrieval at a future time, the asset is accessible from this widget. Bookmarked assets are also accessible from the Bookmarks node in the My Work tree.

  • Saved Searches: A Saved Search is search criteria that you have saved to use on a later date. This widget lists all of the search criteria you have saved as a Saved Search and all of the Saved Searches other WebCenter Sites users have shared with the role(s) you are assigned.

  • Assignments: Provides a summary of your present workload in the current site. From this widget you can access an asset that has been assigned to you during its workflow process and finish your assignments.

  • Checkouts: Provides a summary of the assets that are presently checked out to you.

Workspace Asset Tab

When you log in and access an asset, a tab opens in the workspace displaying the asset in either Form View or Web View. Depending on whether you are creating, editing, or inspecting the asset determines the view in which the tab displays the asset. The workspace has no limit to the number of tabs that can be open at one time.

Search and Browse Tabs

The Search tab opens when you conduct a search or advanced search in the Contributor interface. It displays a list of assets matching your search criteria.

The Search tab consists of the following components:

  • Search toolbar: Enables you to approve, bookmark, and delete assets listed in the Search tab, and refresh the search results list.

  • Search list options bar: Enables you to dock the search results list to the right of your workspace, save the search criteria you used to conduct the search, and toggle the search results list between thumbnail view and list view. This bar also provides search query tips.

    If the search results list is docked to the right of the workspace, you see a Sort menu that enables you to sort the results of your search.

  • Search results list:  Displays a list of assets matching your search criteria. Clicking an asset's name in the list opens a tab displaying that asset's Inspect view. Right-clicking an asset's name in the list displays a context menu for that asset containing content management options you can perform.

The Browse tab opens when you double-click one of the following:

  • The Bookmarks node in the My Work tree – the Browse tab opens displaying a list of bookmarked assets.

  • A parent asset in the Content Tree – the Browse tab opens displaying a list of children belonging to the parent.

The Browse tab consists of the same components as the Search tab (with the exception of the Save Search option).

Split View Asset Tab and Search Results List

The first time you search for an asset after logging in, the list of returned assets fills the workspace in a Search tab. When you click an asset in the list, a separate tab opens in the workspace and displays the asset you selected. If you switch back to the Search tab and click Dock, the search results are docked to the right of the tab displaying the asset (Split View). This enables you to view the asset and the search results list simultaneously.

Tip:

When you have an asset open in its Edit view and you perform a search, the search results list is automatically docked to the right of the asset's tab.

  • To see the search results in a Search tab, click Undock in the search results pane.

  • To close the search results list, click the X icon.