Web Experience Management

Questions/discussions around all the parts of the VCM Content Suite.

Customize Task Inbox
We are trying to customize task inbox where we want to add to 2 more columns to show specific information. I went through the Vignette Management Content Extensible Guide and it didnt mention anything about how to extend the TaskListForm.java and TaskAsset.java. Both these java class are used to create the list of columns…
retrieve StaticFile description
Hi, I want to retrieve data entered in the Description feild of a StaticFile. I could not find any method in StaticFile class that can serve my purpose. Can someone tell me how to retireve StaticFile's description? I am on vcm 731 sp2 Thanks
Static file Published status "Unknown"
I'm working with the content of a site that is going to be launching in the next few weeks. I've begun to notice that when I go to the Unassigned Content channel of this site there are many static files that are marked with "Unknown" in the publishing column. I've tried unpublishing and resubmitting these static files but…
Search - custom database
Hi All,In my current project I have a requirement to store documents in a custom database. I also have wild card search requirement on documents (limited fields) on my custom database. How can I achieve this feature in Vignette Portal? There is no VCM in this project. Any help or pointer? Thanks in advance,Lokesh
Sample Web Service Program Task
Hi All, We are running on VCM 7.6, Is there any sample Web Service Program Task Definition available which can be tested in this environment. Any help would be helpful... Thanks
Ideas on introducing 'Shopping Cart' style functionality to VAP site
Hello, I am working on a requirement to extend the functionality of a 'print' facility which we provide on our site. It works by providing a list of GUID's in a job to a print facilty which we have developed on a separate server. Currently the content for inclusion in the assembeled document is selected from within an…
DateTime type
We want to create a workflow that has a DateTime field as Input at the workflowstart window. When we create this DateTime field, it will automaticallypopulate the initial value which is the date we create this field. For example,if this Datetime field is created at Oct 20, then whateven we start workflow,it shows Oct 20.…
How to permission nav items/portlets to anonymous users
Hello, We have a need to permission navigation items and portlets for anonymous users (i.e. before the users authenticate). We currently do that more for personalization than security, i.e. we give access to pages based on the incoming user's locale. To achieve this we have portal users for each locale that we want to…
Wb Connector Error
Hello - W Recently we began getting the following error when creating Web connector Portlets. Has anyone seen this beofre or know what the cause or solution is. Any help would be much appreciated. HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from…
Autonomy summary field
Issue: we are not getting summary / description of a content instanance in search result of Federated search. I checked that autonomy itself doesnt have description, as while doing query <summary> field comes blank. Now want to find out how can we have value in this summary field? so is it problem with indexing content? do…
Programmatically Set Attribute Value
I want to be able to set the "icon" attribute programatically. I know you can get the value by doing this: <ISPECT>String string1 = getAttributeValue("icon")</ISPECT> Is there similar syntax I can use to set the value of "icon"?
Not able to fnd Content on Ephox editor after Java upgrade
Hi, I am using vignette collaboration 7.2.2 version and the Jdk version is 1.5 and I have created a wiki page and this is working fine but after upgrade the Java version to Java6 update 22 I am not able to find the content on ephox editor of wiki page. Attached is the screen shot for the same please look into this. Any…
V8 Upgrade Best Practices
The Open Text Global Services Centre of Excellence ispleased to announce release of the VCM 8 Upgrade Best Practices guide. This document includes information that will be useful to anybody involved withupgrading from VCM 7.x to VCM 8. It has been compiled by the Centre ofExcellence based on the experience of the Open Text…
VCM 8.0 SP1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">Hi, Is VCM 8.0 SP1 released and available for download. I am not able to see in Downloads section. Only VCM 8.0 appears to be available for download. Thanks Arumugam
Best way to query about all content instances of a content type assigned to a site
Hi all. I wanted to show all the content instances of a content type assigned to a selected site. What is the best way to do this query??. Thanks!! This code is too slowly. What could be the problem?: ContentInstanceWhereClause wClause = new ContentInstanceWhereClause(); wClause.setMatchAny(true); while…
RE V8 Content Workspace 5
Charles, Pls check http://jira.vignette.com/browse/VCM-31152 and VCM-30866 if you'vent yet got the jira numbers-----Original Message-----From: Sreenivasa Rao Venepalli Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:37 PMTo: Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu; Charles Chen; Crandall Chow; v7webcontentmanagement@elinkkc.opentext.com;…
V8 Content Workspace
Customers have been testing the content workspace and have revealed a few issues which I wonder if any one out there have seen them in your projects?1. navigate to Tasks and click on a task, you get a dialog where each one of the panels has a "Loading..." at the upper left corner and it never seemed to return;looks like…
RE V8 Content Workspace 4
I would like to add one more issue, when you are starting workflow from "content" workspace, you can even select past "Process Due Date", there is no validation happening from content workspace as it's there from AppConsole workspace.Regards,Sreenivas.________________________________________From: Sreekanth Choudry Nalabotu…
RE V8 Content Workspace 3
On 1) I cant vouch for what QA has told me, but when i was discussing about this issue with the QA folks in a casual talk, they claim to have found this issue in 80 and filed a jira... will try to get the jira details...________________________________________From: Charles Chen [charlesc@opentext.com]Sent: Tuesday, October…
RE V8 Content Workspace 2
Crandall,I did try the FireBug but it did not show anything in red.Thanks for the tip I will try it later.Cheers,CharlesCharles Chen Principal ConsultantGlobal Service Open Text 420 Thames Valley Park Drive, Thames Valley ParkReading, Berkshire RG6 1PU SkypeID: charles.opentextPhone:Mobile:Fax: ? +44 (0) 1189 848 313 +44…