Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community Release Notes


 

 February 20, 2012

Copyright (c) 2012 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

These release notes contain descriptions of new features, changes in functionality, known problems, and other last-minute information about Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community (11.1.1.6.0). For the latest release notes and additional information, contact Oracle Technical Support.

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Getting Started

What's New in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

Installation Notes

Issues Fixed in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

Known Issues in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

  Getting Started

The WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community document set provides documentation for different kinds of users. Updates to product documentation, as they are made, are posted to the Oracle Support site. For a description of the documents, please refer to the Documentation Notes link on the site. Check the site regularly for the latest set.

  What's new in WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

The major new features of this release are listed below:

 

Comments/Reviews Improvements – Visitor side

•      Compact look and feel

•      Comments/Reviews preview

•      Posting HTML and media content

•      Permalinks for comments

•      Helpfulness rating

•      Social sharing

 

Comments/Reviews Improvements – Moderators Side

•      Category management for Comments and reviews

•      Auto disable for comments/reviews

–     Max number of posts

–     Post until date

•      Manually close posting comments/reviews for a specific page

•      Search Engine Optimization

 

New Rating Widgets

•      Individually deploy new rating widgets

–     Thumbs up/down

–     Like it

–     Recommend

•      Summary widgets

•      Moderate ratings base on rules

 

Polls

•      Simple, powerful and rules based authoring

•      Graphical and non graphical results

•      Precise control

–     Results display

–     Poll status

•      Intuitive menu with deploy option

 

Social login and Custom Session Bar

•      OOTB support for

–     Facebook

–     Twitter

•      Extend login options to 20+ social platforms through Janrain (partner)

•      Optional login controls for widgets

•      Individually pluggable login bar

 

Moderation and Customization

•      Simplified navigation

•      Blacklisting/whitelisting users from Comments moderation screen

•      Templating for all widgets

–     Customize look and feel

–     Rearrange components

–     Add custom data points

•      Language Support

 

Platform Improvements

•      Performance improvements

–     Caching

–     Clustering

•      Simple architecture

•      Easy installation

•      New platform support

–     Weblogic 10.3.5

–     Webpshere 7.0  

 

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Installation Notes

Refer to the Community Installation Guide for installation and deployment requirements / recommendations

 

Note the following:

 

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Issues fixed in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

(#23454) Total comments on the All Comments screen may appear inconsistent when compared with the total number shown in the Filter count for a short period of time

(#23397) Total Review count on page does not equal actual number of Reviews when system is under high load

(#23497) Video file is not shown at the All Reviews page on Admin app in IE7/8

(#23602) Verification code needs to be clicked twice in some instances to enter the captcha code

(#23609 / 23611) When a guest visitor session has expired, the page must be refreshed to allow posting of additional Comments or Reviews

(#23664) Edit visitor profile accepts blank password confirmation field

(#23667) "Saving..." will continue to appear when a file that is uploaded for visitor avatar which is not of an image file type

(#23669) If a user double clicks on flag button for a review/Comments it's status changes to pending

(#23727) Visitor usernames cannot contain dot ( . ) character

(#23739) Changing the page sort on a deployed Reviews page will result in the Flag and Edit links no longer being visible

(#24125) Bulk delete can be performed for up to 20 comments / reviews at one time. Attempts to delete more than that at once may result in messages that "Community Server is unavailable".

(#24133) The message "ERROR com.fatwire.cos.core.jpa.cmd.wem.WemQuerycommand - Can not retrieve blob data java.lang.NullPointerException" in user-service log can be safely ignored

(#24863) Details info for rating stars is not displayed fully when the browser window is resized.

 

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Known issues in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 | Community

Functional

(#23436) Comments widget fails to load when a prototype library is used on the page containing a comments tag.

(#23471) Bulk selection check box is not unselected after the operation has completed.

(#23485) Pagination settings are not preserved when editing Comments

(#23503) Change to restricted words has no effect on current posts    

(#29779) Profile Update doesn’t work properly when the user tries to upload an image of size greater than 5 mb.

(#23781) Reviews Deployment tag deployed with settings "Rating Only" and "Reviewing Enabled" set to "NO" will result in a blank page being rendered.

(#23800) Visitor authentication is not supported against both WEM DB and LDAP at the same time.

(#24117) Uploading a file with duplicate categories will result in the category appearing twice in the "Reviews by Topic" page

(#24118) Blank ‘Category title’ is displayed if Category Title is given between ’<>’ while uploading Categories file

(#24132) Community Admin application time out redirect will not time out the WEM Framework.

(#26083) "Display Name" is not getting updated in LDAP when the profile is updated in Community

(#26205) Usage of symbols is restricted in Poll Title, Question & Answers.

(#26406) IP Addresses and registered users are not getting added to the Blacklist when large text is entered in the reason field

(#26434) Unregistered users can incorrectly be added to the white list

(#26469) The domain authorization message is not showing up for rendering ratings widget of type "Like it" & "Recommend".

(#26706) Comments are not automatically added to the 'Others' resource type if the category used in a comments widget is missing from the system

(#26753)  Users are allowed to create polls without a question. This is an incorrect behavior.

(#26786) File name is displayed incorrectly while tried to save both CSS and Category files in appearance page for Comment and Reviews in one session      

 (#26883) Order of the categories in the Category drop-down at “Reviews Deployment” page is not same as that in the uploaded category file     

(#26946) Janrain javascript is loaded by end site widgets  even when Janrain support is not explicitly enabled in admin app.

(#27445) Incorrect error message is displayed to a visitor when site LDAP server is down.

(#27463) When comment/reviews widgets are deployed with same resource id, reviews are displayed in most commented page.

(#27801) Search by User name is not supported.    

(#27914) Editing multi line comments is tough as the edit area in admin UI doesn't have a scrollbar.

(#27918) User registration does not work if the email address is already used.

(#27999) Alert messages are not displayed when guest user tries to review same article for the second time and the admin setting is to only review once on a page.

(#28222) Permalink doesn't work correctly when the comment is moved to inappropriate  .

(#28690) User's display name is not updated for previous comments in the admin application if the user changes it after posting a few comments

(#28769) Cannot upload a non-UTF-8 file for restricted words.   

(#28868) Only 500 users are displayed in 'Available' box of Add Visitors to Blacklist/Whitelist screen

(#28911) There is no auto-moderation filter for banned words submitted in the admin UI directly.

(#29036) Cache is empty after application server restart due lack of support for disk persistence.

(#29480) Under certain circumstances, the count in Comments By Topic page doesn't match with the filter count.

(#29834) Community widgets don’t work properly if the end site uses iFrames.

(#29850) If Default Thumbs up/down rating widget is not deployed with unique resource id, posted ratings are not updated in the end site.

(#30164) No error message is shown if a user updates her profile photo with an unsupported format in IE

Localization

(#27196) Timeout messages on Deployment tags are not localized

(#27666) Date attributes in WEM Admin UI only use the browser locale and do not utilize locale specified in   user preferences

(#27708) Date time format of comments, reviews etc is the same across locales

(#28090) Anonymous user is registered under different localized user names

(#28370) Loading message shows in browser locale instead of user profile locale

(#28519) Admin UI user's profile change is not reflected until all cookies are cleared

(#28684) CAS does not have messages in all the 9 supported locales e.g. there are no zh_tw messages in CAS

(#30677) Deployment for Recent Reviews and Mostly-reviewed Review has issues on German locale environment, unable to see these widgets on the web site.

(#29827) Garbled characters are getting added when user name with non-ascii characters is edited.

Blog Module

(#23038) Warning message "An attempt was made to set the session variable "preferred_locale" to an invalid value" is displayed on preview of sample blog pages, this can be safely ignored

(#23136) Creating author assets with the same name may cause undesirable behavior, i.e. the wrong author can be displayed for a blog

(#23200) Sample Blog asset types need to be re-indexed after install to search in Dash UI

(#23215) Errors appear in log on first access of sample blog pages - these can be safely ignored

 

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