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Thoughts

2011-02-21T19:29:00.000-05:00

Just a collection of quick thoughts not needing a separate posting:

If you don't own Bex's book, you're most likely a novice. It's pretty outdated now, but is a great starting point. You can get a pretty good preview off google books, but be sure to buy it if you find it useful. And no, I have no affiliation with Bex :)
I have abandoned the Yahoo Stellent Users Group in favor of the OTN Discussion Forums for ECM. It is certainly useful as an additional resource to find information, and was great when it was the only medium for communal help, but user groups were popular back in the 90s. If you want my input, post it on the forums.
What does idc stand for? I'd wager intradoc (the base package for all of Stellent's original code). Why they chose that? Beats me.
Seeing one of my posts on John's Blog was my initial inspiration for writing this blog.

My Bugs

2011-01-24T16:11:00.000-05:00

The following bugs are ones I personally identified and submitted through Oracle Support. If you need any more clarification or help on these, feel free to ask:

Bug #7284766 (Content Server) - DATA SERIALIZER DOESN'T PROCESS CHECKBOX HCSF CORRECTLY FOR SUBMIT_HTML_FORM

Summary: If you use the SUBMIT_HTML_FORM idcservice, checkboxes with the same name/id will not be handled and processed correctly. Also, the resulting "xml data island" of the form that is checked in will not store the checkbox data.

Oracle Response: "Yes the issue is fixed in 11g but development cannot back port it to 10gR3 because that requires a significant enough change that it would require a full regression QA cycle of the 10gR3 media and no such regression QA cycle is planned at this time. Regression tests are likely to only occur if critical BUGs are found. If some really large 10gR3 BUGs were found that had to be fixed (an event that is currently considered unlikely), then it is possible that this fix could be rolled in with the fixes to the larger BUGs before the regression test would be performed."

Bug #8366907 (Site Studio) - WYSIWYG W/ VALIDATION FAILS TO PREVIEW OR SAVE WITH SELECT FORM ELEMENT IN IE

Officially resolved in Site Studio release 8.0.0.443.

Configuration

2011-01-24T14:58:00.000-05:00

Here is a list of configuration variables that I've run across that may not necessarily be easily found, but have been helpful one way or another:

Content Server

Variable	Description
DefaultAccounts	Defines the default account permissions for anonymous users ONLY. An anonymous user is a user "whose credentials have not been validated" that is permitted access as defined by the Guest role and this configuration variable. Example: DefaultAccounts=#none(R),Corporate(R) Tip: I do NOT recommend setting this to #all(R) or with any access greater than (R)ead.
DefaultNetworkAccounts	Defines the default account permissions for users who log in to Content Server with LDAP credentials. This does NOT apply towards the anonymous user. However, according to Oracle Support Doc ID 1214273.1, if the "Content Server was upgraded from 7.5 to 10gR3", this variable needs to be set to #none(R) for guests (anonymous users) to retrieve search results.
MaxRequestThreadCount	Sets the maximum number of simultaneous request threads.

Site Studio

Variable	Description
SSUseInitializationApplet=true	Use when Ephox editor freezes/hangs when loading. View site studio readme file for exact usage and explanation.
SSInitializationAppletDoLogin=true	Use when Ephox editor freezes/hangs when loading. View site studio readme file for exact usage and explanation.
SSCustomNodePropertyDefsPermissions=[bit flag sum]	Used to determine the default permission a user needs to access custom node properties. The values are 1 (R), 2 (W), 4 (D), or 8 (A). This is also needed if you use SS Manager and want to restrict users to manage subsections only (ie. not the root node). By default, a user must have write access to the root node of the web site in order to make changes with the SS Manager. Setting this variable to 1 allows a user to use SS Manager on subsections with only (R)ead access to the root node of the web site.
SSShowDiffOptionInContextMenu=false	Used to show/hide the Diff option when in contribution mode. I've always found this option buggy and utterly useless, so I always hide it.
SSAllowEmptyUrlPageName=false	Used to determine if the primary page allows an empty "URL Page Name" or be redirected to index.htm. This is necessary to be set to false if you use Google Search Appliance (GSA) to crawl your site(s).
SSDefaultUrlPageName=default.html	Sets the default value of "URL Page Name" (urlPageName) if none is provided. This can be any value EXCEPT index.htm and index.html if you use Google Search Appliance (GSA) to crawl your site(s).
SSSuppressAddToWebsite=true	When linking to an image, Site Studio updates the xWebsites metadata field of that image to include the current Web site, which requires write permission on the image. However, if you only have (R)ead access to the image (for instance, if it is part of an image library), you will not be able to link to the image. This flag prevents xWebsites from being updated, thus allowing you to link to the image.
SSEnableExtranetLookCompatibility=true	This flag is used to allow interoperability with the ExtranetLook component, as well as to preserve friendly URLs when certain Single Sign On (SSO) systems are used.

Docs & Files

2011-01-16T00:44:00.000-05:00

10gR3

Oracle 10gR3 documentation
Oracle 10gR3 downloads
Site Studio Technical Reference Guide (~1.3 MB)
Site Studio Component build 260 (~18 MB)
Site Studio Component build 370 (~18 MB)
VDK6 with both Language Packs (please email me for download link)

My Components

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