I have finally broke down and created a new component that adds the Assign Info button to the top of the page as well.

Download the sample component from the Downloads page.

You know that Web Sites menu Site Studio adds to Content Server? Can I limit the links in that list somehow? This question is asked fairly regularly. I wanted to get a sample of how one might accomplish just that out for general consumption. Once you see an example accomplishing the filtering of that list you’ll be able to apply your own specific business logic as well.

In this example we’re going to use Roles to control what web sites are listed in the menu for any given user. I’ve seen this list controlled by Roles, Accounts, Custom User Metadata and every combination of those aspects and more. This is a LOT less about securing sites away from the users (as it doesn’t do that AT ALL) and more about thinning the sites list to something more context appropriate for individuals attempting to do their everyday job.

How to do this? Override the custom_finish_layout_init dynamic html include. Here’s the important snippet (don’t worry, there is an example component!):

<$c=" STARTING EDIT HERE, JS"$>
   <$if UserIsAdmin OR userHasRole("SSMENU" & siteId)$>
  navBuilder.addChildNodeTo('SS_DISPLAY_WEBSITES'
, 'item'
, 'id==SS_WEBSITE_<$n$>'
, 'label==<$js(label)$>'
, 'url==<$js(siteRef)$>'
, 'icon==WebItem.gif');
   <$endif$>
<$c=" ENDING EDIT HERE, JS"$>

So, sysadmin has the admin role, so s/he can see our three site samples in the web sites list:

Now, pretend we’ve created a new user named SingleSiteGuy (stay on task here, this is not a dating site side story…). We’ll give SingleSiteGuy our new SSMENUPayPalDemo Role.

And TA DA! Now SingleSiteGuy can only see the menu we gave him a role to access.

Grab the Websites Menu Filter Sample Component.

The official ASP.NET Page about the CDN:
http://www.asp.net/ajax/cdn/

An in action sample:
http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/09/16/microsoft-ajax-cdn-and-the-jquery-validation-library.aspx

Which should you use?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1447184/microsoft-cdn-for-jquery-or-google-cdn

Those of us using jQuery in our Oracle Web Content Management initiatives need to be aware of this and the Google AJAX APIs. I always like to have options. This is just one more option for us.

You can also check out the Google jQuery hosting options here.

SSHidePrimaryFileInContributor=true

DisableSiteStudioContribution=true

Over on John's Blog you can find even more information about disabling and/or "enhancing" the contributor key-stroke

Component: Site Studio – Consumption to Contribution Ctrl Shift F5 redirect

Guide: Disable ctrl + shift + f5 Site Studio contributor option

Updated: Consumption to Contribution Ctrl Shift F5 redirect.

Look for the 10.1.4.0.0 release

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><wcm:root xmlns:wcm="http://www.stellent.com/wcm-data/ns/8.0.0" version="8.0.0.0"> <wcm:element name="HeaderImage">  <img border="0" alt="Wide Image" src="[!--$ssWeblayoutUrl('groups/public/documents/web_assets/wideimage.gif')--]" /> </wcm:element></wcm:root>

As you can see a near full path is embedded in the xml file. In this case if I were to change the security group of this image from public to secure the page using this data file would render with a missing image. The same is also true of the doc type and/or account. What can we do about this?

The documentation mentions that the function ssWeblayoutUrl() is able to work with the dDocName: This script extension is used to determine the full web address of a file from either the path or dDocName. This is most typically used for paths to images in data files.

Great. It turns out that through the use of a configuration variable added to config.cfg or through the admin server under general configuration week in control what gets embedded in data files. Note: this is available in build 251 or higher.

SSWeblayoutUrlUsesDocNames=true

On a related note, check out another blog post starring ssWeblayoutUrl over at Web Monkey Magic.

http://webmonkeymagic.blogspot.com/2008/09/surprise-ssweblayouturl.html

That said, there is some information I can present here about the ServerBean class starting with the signatures of the public methods. I've sprinkled sparse notes among the methods that may or may not be of use. The simplest description of ServerBean is a shortcut class for performing actions like manipulating the local data, executing services, reading enviornment variables and executing IdocScript.

class ServerBean{   // Constructor   // NOTE: A single, no argument constructor is supplied and you    // must use the init method to initialize   ServerBean()

   // After the constructor you must initialize with this method   void init(ServletRequest servletrequest)

   // Remaining Methods ////////////////////////////////////////////

   void addOptionList(String s, Vector v)   void addResultSet(String s, ServerResultSet serverresultset)

   // Remaining methods in alphabetical order   String evalIdcScp(String s) throws ContentServerException

   // If the flag is true it means you have already wrapped the String    // in <$> offsets   String evalIdcScp(String s, boolean flag)throws ContentServerException   String evalResInc(String s) throws ContentServerException

   // This is the long hand version of evalIdcScp, just use    // evalIdcScp to save some processing   String evaluateIdocScript(String s)throws ContentServerException   String evaluateResourceInclude(String s) throws ContentServerException   void executeService()throws ContentServerException   Object getCachedObject(String s)   ServerResultSet getCurrentActiveResultSet()   Properties getEnvironment()   String getEnvironmentValue(String s)   String getLocal(String s)   Properties getLocalData()   Vector getOptionList(String s)   Enumeration getOptionLists()   ServerResultSet getResultSet(String s)   Enumeration getResultSetList()   void parseExecuteService(String s) throws ContentServerException   void parseExecuteService(String s, char c, char c1)throws ContentServerException   void putLocal(String s, String s1)   void removeLocal(String s)   ServerResultSet removeResultSet(String s)   void setCachedObject(String s, Object obj)   void setEnvironment(Properties p)   void setEnvironmentValue(String s, String s1)   void setLocalData(Properties p)}