Core Content Only

Deleting a WebLogic domain can be accomplished through a series of manual tasks.  There is no script or application to run that will accomplish deleting a domain or removing a domain.  The good news is the steps are fairly short and easy.  In the sample steps below it is assumed that your domain is named base_domain.

1. Delete the domain folder (meaning base_domain) under %WL_HOME%/user_projects/domains
2. Delete the domain folder (meaning base_domain) under %WL_HOME%/user_projects/apps
3. Remove any references to the domain in the %WL_HOME%/domain-registry.xml file
4. Remove any references to the domain in the file WL_HOME/common/nodemanager/nodemanager.domains
5. Remove any schema/database associated with the domain

Content Profiles and Content Rules provide a mechanism for customizing a variety of pages within UCM.  Generally just referred to as Profiles, you can conditionally configure/customize the check-in, update, search and information pages as relates to the context of the content and user intent.

One of the often used by seldom explained parts of Profiles is something called Side Effects.  You will find the Side Effects tab on the Add/Edit Activation Conditions screen and it primarily allows you to accomplish two things:

1. Add name/value pairs as IdocScript that will then get pushed to local data if the activation condition is true.
2. Add custom IdocScript to a rule that is only evaluated if the activation condition is true and this can include logic like if and else statements or loops.  Basically all IdocScript is possible here (though all of it may or may not be useful).  As such, once a rule is activated, you can include logic, use includes from a component, etc.

What specifically might one use Side Effects for?  For a simple example let’s pretend we have a profile for some scanned content.  This content is checked in as an image based PDF (no OCR, no searchable text).  Your profile should not display the full text search box in this case.  There is no full text to be searched.  You can accomplish this with a Side Effect in your profile:

<$SearchEngineName="DATABASE.METADATA"$>

Let’s take another example.  Perhaps on the check-in page you want the alternate file field to be removed.  You could go into config.cfg and add this setting, but it would be universal.  More likely you want this to happen in a specific, conditional context.  Try adding this as a Side Effect to your rule:

<$suppressAlternateFile="1"$>

Want more examples of Profiles, Rules and Side Effects? See below:

1. Using Rules & Profiles To Drive Custom Pages
2. Suppressing Alternate File
3. Thumbnail search in Content Server
4. Thumbnail search in Content Server #2
5. Hiding the Primary File field in UCM
6. Metadata field tool tips

Oracle recently released WebLogic 12c.  I have had a lot of customers ask about running ECM products and ADF on the newly released WebLogic Application server.  We talked with Oracle and basically the current releases of 11.1.1.5 ECM Products and ADF are not certified for WebLogic Application Server 12c.  Also, it does not look like 11.1.1.6 will be certified either.

In short, 12c looks neat and there looks to be a lot of new features but those toys are not currently part of our playground.

If you are using Oracle Universal Content Management PS3 (11.1.1.4.0) and are experiencing some search performance woes you might be surprised to find out that the search cache is turned off by default.  This seems to be a known issue that is being addressed for the next patch set.  In the mean time, you can turn it on by editing your config.cfg file located here:

<WLS path>/user_projects/domains/<UCM domain>/cs/config/config.cfg

Add the following entry:

UseSearchCache=true

Save and restart your content server.

Oracle has recently (September 2011) released Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2 (Oracle Database XE).  This is an entry-level database based on the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that has a small-footprint.  It’s free to “develop, deploy, and distribute”.  It is also fast to download and simple to install.

Download Page

Documentation

The default character set used during installation and setup is AL32UTF8, which is perfect for use with WebCenter Content development machines!

Oracle XE 11g also supports Oracle Text.

Previously we showed how to install WebLogic Application Server 11gR1 PS3 (10.3.4) using the graphical mode installation.  You can also perform the installation in “Console Mode” which may be helpful if you only have terminal access (such as ssh).

Once you have download the generic installation jar you can execute a command line this to kick off the installation:

java -jar wls1035_generic.jar -mode=console

Upon executing this command you will basically get a text based version of the graphical installation.  You can enter Next to move to the next step or enter numeric keystrokes to toggle selected options.  Once all your choices are mad you’ll be presented with a text-based progress bar.  Once installation is complete you’ll be notified and control of the command line will be returned to you.

The installation is very fast!

Also, take a little bit to check out silent install info.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/content-management/downloads/index-085241.html

Get it while it’s hot!  Oracle released Patch Set 4, version 11.1.1.5 of ECM recently.  Includes updates to IRM, IPM, UCM and the whole stack as well as matching updates for RCU, WebLogic and JDeveloper.

Installing Java on Ubuntu 11.04 is pretty straightforward.  First you need to edit the repositories for apt-get.  Use the editor of your choice, but this is basically the command I use:

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment the following two lines and save the file:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner

Then, open a terminal and issue the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Last Friday (Jan 14) Oracle released Patch Set 3 for fusion middleware.  The blogo-sphere has picked this up already and a suprising amount of information is already available.  Here is a list of reference links:

The Announcement - per the ECM Community

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