Content Service 10g and Workflows

Is there something that needs to be done to "enable" the pre-configured workflows in Content Services 10.1.2. I'm having the problem that I can submit workflow requests, but the only option available to the approvers is "Cancel". It also seems that the only way to get that "Cancel" option is to be an administrator and switch to administration mode, which seems to be counter-intuitive if I want users to be able to create and manage their own workflows without system wide administrative privileges.
Do users need to have a particular access level (Reader, Author, Administrator) on a folder or library to be able to approve requests?
Is there some step I've missed in doing the setup for "turning on" workflow? I've looked through the docs, and the only thing I see for separate setup is the notification mailer, which I haven't done.

Was about to submit a TAR and found patch 4910503 referred from Note 344724.1 which sounded very promising, since the note describes exactly what I see. Unfortunately after following the instructions in both documents it still doesn't work (sigh).

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Latest Released Version needs to be visible to Shop Floor Users which refer to the documents on how they should manufacture a part. A Supplier might have a folder to links to the latest RELEASED version of the all files they work with.
2) Since everything is an Item, can items such as folders themselves be versioned? Or just real files?
Example: 12 documents comprise a Customer Evaluation packet. These are all in a folder. The Packet has a Revision of "2". Now we change one of the documents in the packet, and add a new document to the packet. The Packet now has a Revision of "3".
Traditionally I've seen this done by "zipping" the files together into one big file, and checking that in/out. But that's very clumsy because the packet may be 150 MB in size... and if all one wants to do is a file 50K file to the packet, doing that across the Web cross country can be fairly painful. Or are ZIP'd files directly exposable in the interface in a way that versioning can still be accomplished without copying the whole 150MB back and forth, to change one item in the zip file?
thanks for any insight y'all have on these questions...
Karl

Hi Karl,
1) You cannot do this with Links. You could however do it with a category e.g. 'Technical Spec' that has a status attribute. The default of the attribute would be 'DRAFT', but before checking in the RELEASED version you change the status attribute to 'RELEASED'. Any user can get the list of 'RELEASED' documents that are available to them with a simple search.
2) Content Services 10g doesn't support versioning of folders.
hope that helps,
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Content Service Switch and PeopleSoft

Can anyone direct me to any white papers discussing in depth setting up sticky rules for 11501?
I am new to this and need to establish load balancing between PeopleSoft portal servers. While I am getting the basics down, I need to get quickly educated on the process. The basic documentation seems to have left me a little confused. Probably due to my lack of understanding of Web based applications.
Your assistance is appreciated.

You probably post your question in a wrong section. You will find a better expertise in load balancing in "Content Networking" under Emerging Technologies.

Generic Object Services (GOS) and workflow overview

Hi,
I have developed a custom WF for posted FI documents. I use a custom BO and now user wants to access WF log through GOS.
Do you know what should I do to link GOS WF overview button to see my custom WF log?
Thanks!

Hi Ronit,
Thank you very much for your answer, this BADI is exactly what I was looking for!!!
Regards

Content Services and OLS

Is Oracle Content Services 10g integrated with OLS? Will OCS 11g be integrated with OLS? That is, can I label each file or folder with an Oracle Label Security label (column in the table where the document or document metadata is stored) and have OLS protect the document, based on the users OLS accesses. The DB would need to individually identify the user who is accessing the document, either through a DB user account, or through an OID account (OID enabled OLS), or have the ability to set a users OLS session label every time they attempt to access the Content Services application. The end result would be that a user who is cleared at Secret would not see any files or file metadata classified as Top Secret.

No. Content Services has its own ACL model that is enforced through all the supported access paths: protocols, UIs, APIs etc. Users do not see any files that they do not have access to.
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Content DB vs. OCS Content Services

What's the difference between OCS Content Services 10g(10.1.2.0.3) and Content DB 10g Release 2(10.2.0)?
I want to know new features of Content DB against OCS Content Services 10g.

Content Services will remain as part of Collaboration Suite, however at this stage there is unlikely to be further development into the Content Services product (at least from the original content dev team). The collaboration suite people are hard at work for the 11g release.
Content DB was originally a fork in the codelines, and a rebundling under Database Enterprise Edition. It is actively worked upon (by the original content dev team) and is the content component of the new Oracle WebCenter.
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_oct/openworldsf06-23.html
Assuming the Stellent acquisition proceeds, Content DB will also serve as a content infrastructure repository for various Stellent ecm solutions.
http://www.stellent.com/stellent3/groups/mkt/documents/nativepage/oraclefaq.pdf
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Web Service Best and Worst Practices within Oracle SOA Suite

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11.5.10 and OCS10GR1 Content Services As a repository

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App server not sure what I would do as libraries etc. would be different also.The apps tier node of EBS 11i is not certified on 64-bit Linux OS -- Frequently Asked Questions: Oracle E-Business Suite Support on x86-64 [ID 343917.1]
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Oracle Content Services + BPEL for Human Workflow

Greetings,
I'm new to Oracle Collaboration Suite and BPEL. I'm starting to work with this technologies.
My goal is to develop some custom human workflow using Oracle Content Services 10.1.2.3.0 and BPEL.
Regarding software versions, some doubts arise ... I'm using Collaboration Suite 10.1.2.
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BPEL Custom Workflow (DocumentReviewWorkflow) with Content Services

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Anybody working on BPEL Custom Workflows got Success in using the DocumentReviewWorkflow with the Content Services Development Kit 10.1.2.3.0
Please update..
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Prasant

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Oracle content services...and workspaces.

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When I log into the Content Services and do the necessary configurations like policy based versioning, workflow, virus settings etc...all this are applied to the workspaces or where are they reflected. How do I get to see all the seetings I have made getting implemented.

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What are the differences between Oracle Service Bus 10g and WLI 10g?

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