For developing and maintaining your websites, you use tools and utilities such as WebCenter Sites Explorer Tool, CatalogMover, XMLPost Property Management Tool, together with the WebCenter Sites browser-based interface.
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Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer tool, a Microsoft Windows application, for viewing and editing tables and rows in the WebCenter Sites database, and for creating and editing executable elements (or files) written in XML or JSP.
You use Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer to do the following:
Add entries to tables
Edit rows within tables
Track revisions to rows of tables
Create and drop WebCenter Sites tables
Organize tables and folders into projects
Preview SiteCatalog
records as pages in a browser
Export and import records as integrated .cse
type files
Export and import tables and projects in .zip
files
Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer is installed along with WebCenter Sites.
You can use Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer on any remote Microsoft Windows computer simply by copying the Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer directory from a computer on which WebCenter Sites is installed (<domain home>/wcsites/clients/oracle.wcsites.explorer.zip
) to a directory on the remote computer.
You then unzip oracle.wcsites.explorer.zip
and start the Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer executable file (ContentServerExplorer.exe
). Log in to WebCenter Sites by supplying a user name, password, host name, port, and protocol information.
To connect to a system that is running WebCenter Sites:
You may want to create a shortcut on your Windows desktop to Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer. For instructions about using Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer, see the Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer online help and sections in this guide that describe specific tasks requiring Oracle WebCenter Sites Explorer.
You use the CatalogMover tool to export and import WebCenter Sites database tables, including the ElementCatalog
and SiteCatalog
tables. You can export and import database tables as either HTML files or ZIP files.
You can use CatalogMover through either the Windows interface described in the following sections, or the command line interface described in Command Line Interface.
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In previous versions of WebCenter Sites, tables in the WebCenter Sites database were called catalogs. This term still applies to the names of some database tables and to the CatalogMover tool itself.
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To start CatalogMover, run the following scripts at the MS DOS prompt or in a UNIX shell:
Windows: catalogmover.bat
Solaris: catalogmover.sh
The CatalogMover utility opens.
Before using CatalogMover, you must first connect to a WebCenter Sites system.
CatalogMover includes the following menu commands:
File Menu
Exit: Disconnect from WebCenter Sites and close CatalogMover.
Server Menu
Connect: Display the Connect to Server dialog.
Reconnect: Display the Connect to Server dialog and renew the current WebCenter Sites connection.
Disconnect: Disconnect from WebCenter Sites.
Purge Temporary Tables: Purge imported tables before committing.
Commit Individual Tables: Commit imported tables to the database.
Normalize Filenames on Export: Enable CatalogMover's file name normalization behavior, which changes the names of files that are being moved to names that match their corresponding ID numbers. File names are not altered if this feature is not enabled.
CatalogList Menu
Load: Display a list of all tables in the database.
Load: Load into local memory a table from the list.
This figure shows a loaded ElementCatalog
table.
Figure 82-4 ElementCatalog Table in CatalogMover
Select the ElementCatalog tab to view all rows in the table, and to select specific rows for export.
Refresh: Update the loaded tables from the WebCenter Sites database.
Auto Import Catalog(s): Import a previously exported ZIP file.
Import Catalog: Import into the local database a table that was exported from another WebCenter Sites database.
Export Catalog Rows: Export the selected rows in the loaded table.
Selection Menu
Select All Rows: Select all rows in the currently displayed table.
Deselect All Rows: Deselect all rows in the currently displayed table.
Select Rows By SubString: Select rows in the currently displayed table by typing a portion of any field value string that uniquely identifies a set of rows.
Help Menu
About: Display version information about the WebCenter Sites installation.
Exporting is the process of retrieving table rows and their content from the database and saving them in local HTML files and associated data directories. CatalogMover creates one HTML file per table.
This section includes the following topics:
You can select specific rows for export in a loaded table by clicking them, or you can search for specific rows by substring.
To search for and select rows according to a substring:
Importing is the process of sending locally stored HTML files and the associated data to the server. You can select a particular HTML file to import, or you can choose to import all HTML files.
This section includes the following topics:
To import HTML files that have been previously exported from another table:
You can import table rows stored in an exported ZIP file to your server using CatalogMover.
To import a previously exported ZIP file:
Parameters described in the table below allow CatalogMover to perform functions without displaying a GUI. The parameter is followed by a space followed by the value.
Table 82-1 Command Line Interface Parameters
Parameters | Description |
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Display command line parameters |
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User name |
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Password |
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Servername to connect |
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Base URL: either
or
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Table name: Used when exporting to designate tables to export, use multiple |
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Function to perform: Legal values are |
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Directory: When exporting, directory to contain exported tables. When importing all, directory containing all tables to import. |
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File containing table to import: Can either be an HTML file or a ZIP file generated by export. |
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Upload directory to be used if creating a table. |
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ACL list: Comma-separated list of ACLs to be used if creating a table. |
The Property Management Tool includes an easy-to-use form that you use when you want to search for, view, modify, and add properties in the wcs_properties.json
file.
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The Search by section of the Property Management Tool enables you to search for the full or partial name of a property. You can also search by the Category assigned to the property in the wcs_properties.json
file.
When you click Search, the Properties section of the form lists all the properties that match the search criteria you enters in the Search by section of the form.
The Key column displays the name of the property, the Category column displays the category assigned to the property, the SubCategory column displays the sub category (if any) assigned to the property, the Value column shows the value to which the property is currently set. and the Default Value column displays the recommended value for the property.
Note:
The wcs_properties.json
file contains a release number string, ft.version
, which contains a value such as 4.0.0. that is set by WebCenter Sites.
Do not modify this property, it is for reference only.
In certain cases, you might need to add properties to the wcs_properties.json
file. In such cases, use the Property Management Tool to add properties to this file.
You use the XMLPost utility to import data into the WebCenter Sites database. This utility is based on the WebCenter Sites FormPoster
Java class and it is delivered with the WebCenter Sites base product. It imports data using the HTTP POST protocol.
To import assets, you use XMLPost with posting elements that are delivered with WebCenter Sites.
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