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Crawling a Content Folio

Content Folios in WebCenter Content allow you to assemble, track, and access a logical group of documents and/or links.  It allows you to manage them as just a list of items (simple folio) or organized as a hierarchy (advanced folio).  The built-in UI in content server allows you to work with these folios, but publishing them or consuming them externally can be a bit of a challenge.  

Mar 29, 2012 1:53pm

Full-text indexing? You must read this

For those of you who may have missed it, Peter Flies, Principal Technical Support Engineer for WebCenter Content, gave an excellent webcast on database searching and indexing in WebCenter Content.  It's available for replay along with a download of the slidedeck.  Look for the one titled 'WebCenter Content: Database Searching and Indexing'.

Mar 22, 2012 2:59pm

Improving WebCenter Content Search Performance

If you don't follow the Oracle WebCenter Content Alerts blog, you may have missed the announcement about the 'WebCenter Content: Database Searching and Indexing' webcast happening tomorrow.  It's happening on March 15, 2012 at 16:00 UK / 17:00 CET / 8:00 am Pacific / 9:00 am Mountain / 11:00 am Eastern. For details, go to https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1399682.1

Mar 14, 2012 8:23am

Daylight Savings Time... Again?!?!

It's tough explaining why we have Daylight Savings Time... it's really tough explaining why we have it to a grumpy 4-month old who wants to keep napping... it's really, really tough explaining why we have it the same week it snows in Seattle fer crying out loud... Frankly, I think we should do away with it, and C. P. G. Grey agrees with me:

Mar 13, 2012 9:32am

Next Quarterly Customer Update Webcast is March 26 (March 27 in Asia Pacific)

Join us for the next Oracle WebCenter Quarterly Customer Update Webcast scheduled for March 26 (March 27 in Asia Pacific). Details about the webcast can be found on our WebCenter Blog.

Mar 09, 2012 10:25pm

Next Quarterly Customer Update Webcast is March 26 (March 27 in Asia Pacific)

Join us for the next Oracle WebCenter Quarterly Customer Update Webcast scheduled for March 26 (March 27 in Asia Pacific). Details about the webcast can be found on our WebCenter Blog.

Mar 09, 2012 4:25pm

Creating custom report templates with BI Publisher

In the records management capabilities within WebCenter Content 11g, reports that are created are generated by a runtime version of Oracle BI Publisher.  In order to create those reports, there are report templates that are checked in during the initial configuration of records management.  These templates are in rich-text format (RTF) and can be easily modified in Word.  To make simple changes within the existing templates, you can simply check them out, download the RTF fil

Mar 08, 2012 11:30am

What do you mean you don't read HDA?

For any WebCenter Content or Records administrator who's done any customizing or troubleshooting of the server has undoubtedly run across an .hda (HDA) file.  A HDA file is proprietary data structure in ASCII text files used by WebCenter Content.  Why HDA and not some other format such as XML? Well, I'll have to leave that argument for the developers as to the benefits of one over the other.  But one thing is clear...while it may be very fast and easy for a computer to parse and read HDA, it's not so easy for humans.

Feb 24, 2012 11:38am

And we're back...

It's Alive

Well it turns out that there are a few folks out there that follow this blog (thank you!) and it has a bit of history, so I'll be starting it back up again.  I'm still part of the WebCenter A-Team and will be updating the team blog as well, but all of my posts will continue to reside here. 

So now onto some new topics...

Feb 24, 2012 11:29am

Downloads For Oracle WebCenter Content (UCM) 11g Patch Set 5

Oracle UCM Patch Set 5 is released! And thus begins the long, long hunt for the patches you need to upgrade...

Most of this info is available in the Oracle FAQ for ECM 11g, as well as the Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide... but I was tired of it being un-googleable... So I decided to put a few of the links together here.

Feb 23, 2012 7:02am
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