New to webcenter spaces

iam new to webcenter plz some body help me out in below things
building environment
and how to work with that
regards
vidya

It all depends on the requirements.
Spaces is a collaborative environment that is ready made and can be extendible by custom development.
Webcenter portal is a template in JDeveloper for building a portal.
Now, when to use what...
There are some requirements that should tell you what to use.
For example when one of the requirements is allowing the possiblity to build microsites, then use spaces. No doubt about it. In webCenter portal (jdev) you can't allow the users to build microsites or seperate group spaces without needing to code a lot of code. This is exactly what spaces is inteded for. Devide the portal into sections where each section have their own set of resources, security, users, pages and so on.
When a personal space is required so users can build their own dashboard. use spaces. This requirement can be build by using the webcenter portal in jdev but it will be very hard.
These are just a few differences between spaces and portal.
Normally when you require a lot of flexibility and major customizations are required, than webcenter portal should be used.

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Pls do the foll actions:
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Edited by: 869616 on 2011-7-6 上午3:20
Edited by: 869616 on 2011-7-6 上午3:41

Maybe I do not discribe this issue correctly
Please refer to Oracle® Fusion Middleware Tutorial for Oracle WebCenter Spaces Users 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0) E10277-03
Step 3: Make the Documents Page Available
please take a look for Figure 3–6 Documents - Show Page
Name Reorder Show Page
Documents checkbox
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Just go to your WLS: http://localhost:7001/console (replace localhost and port to your server) and than login with your weblogic account.
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No stack trace available.*
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Error Messages in a WebCenter Spaces Components

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but when we test the same process from WebCenter Spaces side by using the document manager component for the same folder to add new files the error message "Untitled error" appeared when override the quota, so how i can fetch the same message from UCM to view it in WebCenter Spaces when we override the quota.
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I can help with this one - the component is mine. It was discussed in this thread: Re: "documents folder" on UCM size limit feature
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> The <af.fileDownloadActionListener> component is not supported.
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Hi Sreedhar
We are using WCP 11.1.1.8.5
To recreate the issue
1) Login to WCC Portal: Spaces as admin user , create a New Page under a webcenter spaces portal
2) Under the space , Pages Section , select the page and click edit
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10) Click Cntrl-shift-c in portal/space as an authenticated user with edit access to content and make an edit to content , this will trigger worklow . The author currently will see edit option get disabled once content enters workflow
11) Login as approver to the portal and cntrl-shift-C to the portal and workflow options(approve and reject) are enabled but the edit option is not. If you reject content , the author should be able to edit content in the content presenter mode, this also is not available. The issue is the content is now no longer available for editing from wthin content presenter if it is in workflow to either the approver or the original author depending on workflow step. If you check the same content under the document explorer the option to edit is enabled. Is this a bug /issue with content Presenter or some option needs enabled?

Automated packaging and deploying of WebCenter Spaces/Portal

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I'm using WebCenter PS5 (11.1.1.6) and was wondering if anyone has setup package and deployment scripts for use in Continuous Integration (CI) for Webcenter Portal and Spaces using Ant. From the documents online I can see that there is limited support for this:
WebCenter Portal
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It looks like the only thing I can really properly automate at the moment is the extend.spaces.webapp.war deployment, and all the rest I will have to generate an EAR from within JDeveloper. I really want to avoid generating from JDeveloper as that means you have to check-in archives into source control which isn't good practice.
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http://one-size-doesnt-fit-all.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/using-ojdeploy-and-ant-for-creating-adf.html
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Here is the link that I found to change the default text in adf faces component. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/learnmore/49-skin-component-labels-169191.pdf
Scenario is simple :
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{ "af_panelCollection.LABEL_DETACH_TABLE_DLG", "Any name for the Detachable Table" },
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Setup your custom skin for a Space and test.
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If you still have issues then may I priorize a Blog entry explaining this .
Regards.

JDev with Extended WebCenter Spaces 11.1.1.2.0 and 11.1.1.3.0 Lib Errors

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"I am using JDeveloper Studio Edition Version 11.1.2.1.0"
That's your problem. Yo uare using JDev R2 while WebCenter cannot be used with that version of JDeveloper.
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Tks
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