How to move Vault and Weblayout Directories???

Most of the time you want the vault and weblayout folders to exist in a storage server (for example on SAN storage). You can do that during installation of UCM, where you will be asked for the location of the Vault and Weblayout directories, but if you forgot to do that, no problem you can change the location of the two directories.

In the following lines, I will tell you how to change the location of the two directories:

First I will suppose that we have a shared directory on the file server in which we will move the vault and weblayout directories, let us suppose the shared directory named "\\stellent-share\"

1. Stop the content server
2. Stop the webserver
   
3. Move Vault and Weblayout directories to "\\stellent-share\"
4. Edit the following configuration files
   /bin/intradoc.cfg
   /admin/bin/intradoc.cfg
   and add the following entries
   VaultDir=d:/vault/
   WeblayoutDir=d:/weblayout/
   
5. In the currently used Web Server, change the location of the weblayout in the website settings
   
   Note: You need to create a mapped drive the new location of the weblayout directory (with win, use PUSHD command), which will be used with Web server settings
   
   If for example I mapped "//stellent-share/weblayout" to "Z:", in Apache the configurations will be
   
   
6. Restart the web server
7. Restart the content server

Don't forget you can do the

UCM Workshop in Nigeria

I am late in posting this photo for attendees of Oracle UCM Workshop in Nigeria and me, that is because I received it from a week and I was busy. I'd like to thank Rasaq Hanafi for sending that photo, he is not in this photo, but he was one of the attendees and I think he is one of the most active attendees in the workshop.

Site Studio 10gR4 tutorial

I am currently in the process of building Site Studio 10gR4 tutorial. I will try to help by giving you exact steps for building a complete website using most of Site Studio features. Actually I like the materials that I am using during my trainings for oracle partners which is based on Oracle University materials, and I will try to simulate them.

I cannot create a WebDAV Folder

I was trying to create a WebDAV folder where I have UCM installed and Desk-Top-Integration suite installed too. I didn't install UCM on that environment, just I installed DIS and some other components, suddenly discovered I cannot create a WebDAV folder.

I tried to find the problem, but I didn't find any where I checked folder_g component and it's working, DIS installed correctly, CS is working, and Folder configurations is absolutely correct. So I asked myself what's the problem, after thinking I said that the installation of CS is not done correctly, something is missing.

So I begun in taking a look at CS installation. I discovered that there are two web-filters in IIS and they are referring to the same ISAPI filter file. That is the problem WebDAV tries to use both on the filters.

Please install Oracle Content Server correctly or don't install it at all.

Inbound Refinery & OpenOffice on linux

I installed Inbound Refinery on Linux, and I want PDF conversion to be enabled, so I installed PDF Converter component and OpenOffice component. I did this using Inbound Refinery installation guide and PDF Converter installation guide. I did the installation successfully but I got an error during conversion.

The error says “The refinery's post converted queue stated that Content ID: 'TESTWORDDOC' converted successfully but the converted files could not be found”, I tried to find a solution and I reviewed the instllation guides, Intreadoc_User group, and Oracle MetaLink mutiple-times but I dind't find anything I did wrongly. After a lot of attempts I discovered that OpenOffice on linux should be strated using "Super User"

so I used that command to start OpenOffice

>sudo soffice "-accept=socket,port=8100;urp;"

Integrating Universal Content Management with Active Directory

Here I will list steps for integrating Active Directory with Universal Content Management, then I will list troubleshooting tips for this integration. I wish it will be helpful for someone.

Integration Steps

1. Create organization unit in Active Directory named Stellent

2. Create a sub organization unit under Stellent named Roles

3. Under Roles create AD Security Groups with the same name as UCM Roles (like contributor, and admin)

4. In Content Server Home Page, open Admin Server page

5. Open Content Server instance that we will integrate on

6. Open Internet Configuration page

7. From Use Microsoft Security options choose Active Directory Security option

8. Restart Content Server for the current instance

9. In Content Server Home Page, under Administration tab open Filter Administration page

10. In front of Active Directory Security, click on Configure link

11. Under Role Prefix, add the following “OU=Roles,OU=Stellent[1]”

12. Click Update, at end of the Filter Administration page

13. Restart Content Server, and IIS (restart IIS from Servcies)

Troubleshooting Steps

If you faced any problem after the above steps, check the following

1. In IIS, open Direct Security, for Content Server website, then edit Authentication and access control, then ensure that Anonymous access and Integrated Windows authentication are enabled. After modification restart IIS

2. In Active Directory and Active Directory Configuration page (in Content Server Home Page) ensure that you didn’t misspell organization units names and AD security groups

3. In Active Directory Configuration page (in Content Server Home Page) ensure that you didn’t but spaces between words under Role Prefix

4. If you still face a problem restart IIS (from Services, not from Administration), and Content Server.

5. At last, if you still face a problem ensure you did the above steps well, and Restart Windows

Inbound Refinery and Zip Renditons bug

I use ZipRenditionsManagement Component to add attachments functionality in content server, it was working fine but someday a customer reported a bug for me that attachments is not working. I don't like this kind of bugs, I searched for a solution to that bug but failed.

While I am tracing, I queried 'Revisions' table and I found the bug, tow document one takes attachment and the other one doesn't take, the difference between them was in the value of the field 'Rendition1' one took 'z' and the other took 't'. 't' means thumbnail and 'z' means zip renditions which means thumbnails and zip renditions can not work with each other. To turn off thumbnail, turn it off from inbound refinery.