Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook

Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook

By : Yannick Ongena

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Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook

By: Yannick Ongena

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Overview of this book

Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g is the modern user experience platform for the enterprise and the Web. Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g delivers social and collaborative services to help optimize connections between people, information, and applications. WebCenter has changed a lot with its last release. This book will guide you through all the important and new features for managing and administering WebCenter with advanced recipes. Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook is a practical guide that provides over 90 advanced recipes with step-by-step instructions covering important aspects of managing and administering Oracle WebCenter. The book starts by creating an enterprise portal with WebCenter and enhancing it with the new features from the latest 11g version. It then teaches you to build complex navigation models and page hierarchies in detail. It then dives into building Wikis and integrating content with document services. Finally it covers the important administrative concepts of WebCenter Spaces, security, and managing WebCenter applications.

Oracle WebCenter 11 PS3 Administration Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Creating an Enterprise Portal with WebCenter

Introduction

Preparing JDeveloper for WebCenter

Creating a WebCenter portal

Managing pages

Changing the look and feel of your portal

Editing pages using the composer

Consuming Portlets

Introduction

Building JSR 286 portlets in JDeveloper

Registering a portlet producer at design time

Registering a portlet producer at runtime

Consuming portlets at design time

Consuming portlets at runtime

Wiring two portlets together at design time

Wiring two portlets together at runtime

Contextual wiring of portlets using events

Navigation Models and Page Hierarchies

Introduction

Creating a navigation model at design time

Creating a navigation model at runtime

Adding a folder to a navigation model

Adding a link to a navigation model

Adding content query to a navigation model

Adding a page hierarchy to a navigation model

Referencing a navigation model

Adding a component to a navigation model

Adding a custom folder to a navigation model

Adding custom content to a navigation model

Changing the default start page of your portal

Filtering navigation resources based upon business logic

Exporting a navigation model

Importing an existing navigation model

Specifying the default navigation model

Managing the page hierarchy

Managing the Resource Catalog

Introduction

Creating a resource catalog at design time

Creating a resource catalog at runtime

Adding a folder to a resource catalog

Adding a link to a resource catalog

Adding another resource catalog to a resource catalog

Adding a component to a resource catalog

Managing the Look and Feel of Your Portal

Introduction

Creating a new template at design time

Creating a template at runtime

Creating a tree navigation

Enabling runtime editing of your template

Creating a new page style

Integrating Content with Document Services

Introduction

Preparing UCM for a remote connection

Creating a connection to a content server

Creating a content driven navigation model

Displaying a single content item with the content presenter

Displaying multiple content items with the content presenter

Creating a content presenter template for a single item

Creating a content presenter template for multiple items

Using the document service taskflows

Discussions and Wiki Services

Introduction

Creating a connection to the discussion service

Adding discussion forums to your portal

Creating forums

Creating topics

Adding announcements to your portal

Creating an announcement

Creating a wiki document

Editing a wiki document

Organizing and Finding Content

Introduction

Creating a connection for the link and tagging services

Enabling tagging functionality to pages

Showing related content

Showing a tag cloud

Linking content

Linking to a document

Linking to a discussion

Using Polls and Surveys

Introduction

Creating a connection for the poll services

Creating a poll

Adding a poll to a page

Managing sections

Managing questions

Scheduling a poll

Analyzing the results

Creating a poll template

Applying a template to a poll

Integrating External Content and Applications

Introduction

Registering an external application in JDeveloper

Adding an external application to your portal

Integrating external content with the WebClipping portlet

Registering the Omniportlet

Integrating external content with the Omniportlet

WebCenter Spaces

Introduction

Creating a discussion and announcement service connection

Creating a document service connection

Registering external Applications

Registering a portlet producer

Creating a group space

Enabling additional pages

Creating subspaces

Creating lists

Creating a space template

Exporting group spaces

Importing group spaces

Securing Your WebCenter Portal

Introduction

Securing pages with the page hierarchy

Securing pages at runtime

Using Oracle Identity Directory as an identity store

Enabling SSL for a WebCenter portal application

Securing taskflows

Managing WebCenter Portal Applications

Introduction

Creating a connection to an application server

Deploying a WebCenter Portal Application

Undeploying an application

Managing connections in the Enterprise Manager

Propagating changes from a staging environment to a production environment

Viewing log messages in the Enterprise Manager

Monitoring the performance of an application

WebCenter Analytics and Activity Graph

Introduction

Registering a WebCenter Portal application to the Analytics collector

Manually running the Gathering Engine

Scheduling the Gathering Engine

Creating a connection to the activities schema in JDeveloper

Using the WebCenter Analytics taskflows

Creating your own analytics report

Showing an activity stream on your portal

Index

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Specifying the default navigation model

When your portal has multiple navigation models, you want to specify which one is the default. This is done in the adf-config.xml configuration file.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need a WebCenter portal application.

How to do it...

1. In JDeveloper, open the adf-config.xml file. It can be found in the Application resources in the Descriptors/ADF META-INF folder.
2. Open the source tab.

3. Look for the following code:

<portal:adf-portal-config>
<portal:preferences>
<portal:preference id="oracle.Webcenter.portalapp.navigation.model"
desc="Default Navigation Model" value="/oracle/Webcenter/portalapp/navigations/default-navigation-model.xml"
resourceType="navigation" display="true"/>

4. Change the value attribute to the path of the navigation model you want to use as a default.

How it works...

When the portal starts, it will read the preferences from the adf-config,xml. Based on that, the navigation model specified in the portal:preferences...

Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook

By : Yannick Ongena

Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook

By: Yannick Ongena

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