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A collection of 37 posts

Webcenter

How to: SSH into a WebCenter Cloud Node

When setting up WebCenter Content from the Oracle Cloud Marketplace it configures multiple OCI instances - which don't display a public IP to allow you to easily access via SSH a WebCenter node. It does however provide a bastion OCI instance which provides added protection against attack that you can

OCM

How to: Back-Up Oracle Content Management

Oracle Content Management is now in EOS 2025 - unfortunately there is no 1 click backup option available today OOTB with the OCM Web UI. However with the OCM CLI Toolkit you can execute a suite of commands to easily achieve this and backup your data and meta information in

JET

An Intro into Oracle JET 15.x

It's been a while since I last got the chance to work with Oracle JET; but I was fortunate to jump into a few sessions at CloudWorld and have a beer or two with John Brock to discuss the latest magic. It's come a long way from the days of

Content Management

Enhancing the OCM Site Builder Developer Experience

Oracle Content Management is an amazing CMS for Editors and Content Creators but when it comes to the developer experience there is a lot that can be done to improve the development lifecycle. A couple years ago I worked with a team to help improve and streamline the developer experience

Content Management

OCM Approaches to Displaying Images

Here is a run through and some examples and items to think about when loading images from Oracle Content Management headless or from within sites builder. Topics * 1) Using The OCM Content SDK * 2) Calling REST API Directly * 3) CDN (Akamai) and image Cache Busting Best practices 1) Using The

Content Management

Oracle Content 2023 Implementation Professional Certification

Last week the new learning path for partners and specialists loooking to get certified with OCM was released. I've booked in for next week to catchup and update my certification! The path includes 6hrs off deep-dive training around architecture, security, content modeling and provisioning as well as covering core use-cases

Content Management

OCM Virtual Drive: For Oracle Content Managements Asset Repository

A couple weeks ago I created a video demo - showing you how you could use the OCM Desktop Integration Suite to interact with Assets using Oracle Integration Cloud as the middleware to process and sync assets via the OCM Documents. Video: Enhancing OCM Document OIC workflow process with an

Content Management

Oracle Content Management Secret New Release..

You may have noticed a couple weeks ago; the Oracle Team snuck in an update with no official announcement or documentation.. What is this update?   The updated Redwood Theme branded OCM Sites Editor Interface! But unfortunately with this update a few things have become messy - that is if you

Content Management

Oracle Content Management Admin UI - Themes (ie Dark Mode)

A couple years back at an OCM partner event there was a question if it was possible to enable users the ability to easily switch the OCM Admin UI Theme as one of the developers had figured out that you could call a Javascript command and change the default theme.

OCM Featured

How To: Oracle Content Management Automating Social Posts -(Twitter, Linkedn etc)

An old colleague of mine has recently gone to work for Zapier a process automation tool enabling quick and easy connections to over 5,000 apps and services. I also use it today with my blog to automatically post out to LinkedIn & Twitter any time I publish new content and

Content Management

Oracle Content Management And Slack Integration Setup Guide

In the last release of OCM 22.9.3 we received a long awaited integration with Slack! And after testing it out yesterday I love it.. The team did an amazing job for the first release! In this post I'm going to take you through the setup and help you

Content Management

Oracle Content Management Custom Component Settings Tab Set Display

In the previous post I showed you how to dynamically update the settings panel to remove the double scrollbar issue - in this one I thought I'd create a quick free component with the sample tab set and auto resize code all built in. Breakout of key code elements Download

Content Management

Oracle Content Management Sites Component - Dynamic Resize of the Properties Panel

In OCM Sites within a custom component, I needed to add a tab set panel to simplify the editor experience breaking the properties into two tabs "Custom" and "Advanced" but as part of this I also needed to auto-update the iframe settings properties height to prevent either a double scrollbar

Guide

The iPad Web Development Kit

I'll be heading over to the US soon for Cloud World.. and that means about 22 Hrs in the air with maybe some internet access. So I've been thinking.. I carry around with me a Laptop (MacbookPro), Android Phone and iPad Air on the flight - wouldn't it be great

Content Management

Exploring the new Oracle Content Management integrated Process workflow features with Assets.

In the OCM release 22.9.1 — September 2022 we received new Extended Workflow Support! I'll show you these updates and cover some of the other integrated OCM workflow features with Assets. This is part 4 of a 4 part series on integration with process cloud. * Setting Up Oracle Integration

Content Management

Setting Up Oracle Content Management Integrated Assets Workflows with Process Cloud Service

In September the OCM team released enhanced integrated workflow capabilities built on-top of  PCS. In this post I'm going to setup one of the OCM process samples and connect it to a asset type and show you the newly integrated functionality. You now no longer have to go into OIC

Content Management

Setting Up Oracle Content Management Documents Workflow with Process Cloud Services

In the last post I covered how to setup OIC and connect and configure OIC with OCM. In this guide we will create a simple approval workflow and connect that with Documents within Oracle Content Management to manage documents dropped into folders. This is part 2 of a 4 part

Process Cloud Service

Setting Up Oracle Integration Cloud with Content Management for Workflows

This week I dived into trying out some of the new features Oracle Content Management released for integrated workflows for Assets and improving on the overall User Experience. I have to say it looks pretty good!.. But I did run into some issues with the setup and reading through the

Content Management

Setting up an IDCS Client App for Oracle Content Managements REST API Authentication

If you don't have SSO enabled on you OCM instance you will need to setup an Identity Cloud Service client application that will enable you to authenticate and receive an oAUTH2 token for requests against the OCM REST API. I've setup an example on the OCM-Social-Widget in github that shows

Content Management

Hidden Presence Service within Oracle Content Management

Want to enable the ability to see who is online on your website? OCM has a few hidden tricks up it's sleeve.. With that said.. none of this is documented with  the OCM documentation guides and it's not officially support.. but.. I'll share how to enable this feature on your

Content Management

Custom User Profile Attributes with Oracle Content Management and Free Widget.

Sometimes you need the ability to add custom user profile attributes for users to manage such as User Image, Location, Address, Locale and more - did you know you can use the Oracle Content Management Rest API for users and groups to assign custom properties against accounts and use the

Content Management

An alternative strategy to cleaning assets from Oracle Content Management.

I'm adding a quick snippets (gist) as an alternative way to target & loop through and delete OCM assets. I recently had an issue where the OCM batch jobs using the OCM toolkit were just running too slow or were being unresponsive.. So I quickly pulled together this rough and dirty

Content Management Featured

Free Oracle Content Management QR Custom Field Generator

I needed something like this for the work I'm prepping for Cloud World and QR codes always seem to be popular - so lets open source this and give you a Custom QR Field Generator Component that you can drop into your OCM Editor Forms and either print or pull

Content Management

Social Follow & Followers Support with Oracle Content Management

Oracle Content Manage has support to enable users to follow or be followed by other users similar to Twitter - if you are looking to create this kind of capability and allow users to follow others from within the site or an app you are building here is how you

Content Management Featured

Oracle Content Management Custom Form Component - Starter Kit

Last week I released a headless and installable OCM Sites Component Social Widget. Next on the list will be this new Custom Form Starter Kit using Sveltkit &  TailwindCSS to handle the form UI providing a quick way to skin and enhance the OOTB Form Capabilities. Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build