What's New

• When you create a blog, you can now use the following special characters in blog names in addition to letters and numbers:

  ? \ / : [ ] * ' " |

Enhanced commenting:

• Commenting is now available when you view the list of blog entries and not on just the entry itself.

• "Working with Blogs," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Microsoft Lync 2010 for IMP

• WebSphere Application Server V7

• Internet Explorer 9 Browser

• Chrome Browser 10 and chrome support

• Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows XP (32-bit and 64 bit)

• "Microsoft Lync Prerequisites," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configurations page at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html.

• "Working with Microsoft Office and Explorer Integration," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Discussions task flows are streamlined for greater ease of use.

• "Working with the Discussions Service," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Follow a clearer set of steps to connect to the Oracle WebCenter Content repository.

• Upload multiple files from your desktop by drag and drop.

• Select and upload multiple files from the Document Explorer in one step.

• View file upload progress.

• Share documents more easily.

• Perform in-context workflow approval. Approver can view and approve or reject unreleased content from the contribution mode without needing to enter edit mode.

• Enter contribution approval mode on a page with content (either HTML or Site Studio) in a workflow. View and approve or reject unreleased content from contribution approval mode without entering edit mode.

• "Managing Content Repositories," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• "Configuring the Documents Service Content Repository Connection," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• "Uploading New Files," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• "Working with the Documents Service Task Flows and Document Components," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• "Publishing Content Using Content Presenter," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• "Approving or Rejecting a File in a Workflow," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Task flows are streamlined to enhance usability. For example, users can now view links to events from both calendar and list views.

• "Working with the Events Service," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Subscription messages now use IMIP rather than iCal for notifications about events. Consequently, event notifications are added automatically to your Outlook Calendar, without your having to open the notification attachment and add it yourself.

• "Subscribing to Events," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Use SharePoint web parts, including those requiring Kerberos authentication.

• Includes support for logging of HTTP traffic between a proxy and a resource.

• Added detailed pagelet debug logging.

• Available as a unified producer for non-standards-compliant web applications.

• Enables consumption of gadgets from other OpenSocial containers, such as iGoogle, and exposure of them as pagelets that can be consumed by WebCenter Portal sites, other Oracle portals, or Oracle Web Content Management for WebCenter sites.

• Enables production of OpenSocial gadgets and exposure of all existing pagelets as gadgets.

• Chapter 63, "Creating Pagelets with Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer"

• "Managing the Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• New Administrator-level Delete Personalization option enables removal of all users' customizations from business role pages or personal pages in one step.

• New system pages are available to support viewing and managing application metrics, space memberships, spaces, and space templates.

• The Subscribe system page is now named Self-Service Membership to more-closely reflect its use case.

• "Removing All User Customizations from a Business Role Page," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• "Removing All User Customizations from a Personal Page," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• "Working with System Pages," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Experience faster initial page downloads.

• Forgo session creation for unauthenticated users.

• Realize faster creation times for WebCenter Portal: Framework applications.

• New Enterprise 2.0 portlet producer is available for exposing task flows from WebCenter Portal services as portlets. Integrate portlets with WebCenter Portal applications, Oracle WebLogic Portal, and Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

  The new Enterprise 2.0 portlet producer is certified with WebSphere, MySQL, Internet Explorer 9, and Chrome 10.

• Chapter 58, "Overview of Portlets"

• Section 64.7, "Consuming WebCenter Services Portlets"

• "Configuring the E2.0 Portlet Producer," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• Upload multiple files at once through the Publisher task flow.

• "Sharing Files Through the Publisher Task Flow," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• There are more task flow parameters to limit the scope of searches. Administrators can narrow the scope of searches to specific spaces, services, and document types. They also can add attributes to the list of standard attributes returned with each search result item, and they can hide standard refiners available to users with search results.

• You can now build portals using a navigation model that enables SES and public search engines, such as Google and Bing, to crawl and index the full text content of pages.

• "Working with the Search Service," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Chapter 11, "Building a Navigation Model for Your Portal"

• Chapter 45, "Integrating the Search Service"

• "Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter Portal," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• Support is available for an OAuth2 Provider in an OAuth client.

• Support is available for dynamically determining group membership via integration with Oracle Entitlements Server.

• Chapter 69, "Securing Your WebCenter Portal: Framework Application"

• "Managing WebCenter Portal Application Security," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• "Understanding Security," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• We have updated the edit tags user interface in the Document Explorer task flow.

• The Tags button component and the Edit Tags task flow have a new parameter that enables developers to disable the Shared control.

• The previously-named "Tag Cloud" task flow is now called the "Tag Selection" task flow; and a new standalone Tag Cloud task flow is available in the design-time catalog.

• "Working with the Tags Service," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Chapter 44, "Integrating the Tags Service"

• Access wiki creation features with greater ease: Use a New Wiki Document button in a Documents service task flow or in the wiki itself.

• Experience improved performance in loading wikis, launching the wiki editor, and saving changes to your wiki.

• "Creating a Wiki Document Using the New Wiki Document Action," in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces