Process for customising BC site templates

Hi,
I've been looking through BC Gurus which is great, although quite in depth, I should explain I am very new to BC and Web design in general. Whilst looking around the net it suggests it would be quicker to take a BC template and customise for my clients needs.
However, I can not find any decent tutorials for a sensible process for taking a template and customising. I suspect I should be looking to edit the main site CSS file and default template, but is that correct?
In a nutshell, I took the Halftone template, applied to my site, synced with Dreamweaver, now what! I can't even find how to change the logo
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Grant

Hi Grant, The forums are very active.
There are a number of us that are not fans of the - just edit templates to create clients sites so some of us wont comment on this. But in terms of what your asking is quite broad, its a lot to do with HTML and CSS and Javascript knowledge.. on top of that BC knowledge as well.
A logo change is going to the content holder or part of the template where the logo is and changing the image html. This is more standard html and css knowledge and people spend a long time learning this and a wealth of information. I do not use templates for example so I can only give a broad answer on how to edit html for example. If you need to learn html and css stuff there is a million and one things out there. In the guide section on these forums there are docs about things and also links to guide sites like BC Gurus to help learn BC and this stuff.
So it is quite hard to post a helpful response so I guess that is why you not got a reply.

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Link: http://www.businesscatalyst.com/_blog/BC_Blog/post/May-release-New-partner-support-Infrast ructure-updates-Site-templates-and_bug-fixes/
We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on Thursday, May 3rd. With this release, we are continuing our investments in system performance and stability by increasing our web servers capacity, enabling HTTP acceleration to provide faster site loading times, and improving the site creation speed by using pre-generated sites.
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Partner support
Infrastructure updates
Features and enhancements
Issues fixed by this release
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Partner support
Updated Help & Support partner experience
Following Adobe ID support, we have upgraded BC support tools (cases, chat, documentation) with standard Adobe tools. As a partner, you can now benefit from the same support tools as the rest of Adobe Creative Suite, and can track your support cases with Adobe BC, Dreamweaver, Muse or Photoshop in a single place.
Partners with more than 100 paid sites will get 2nd level chat support, which includes a higher priority, by default. If you have more than 100 paid sites, but spread across different Partner Portals, please ask support to enable 2nd level chat for you.
Support experience for your Small Business owner clients can now be owned by partners (see below).
Custom Help & Support URL for your clients
As a partner, you are probably already offering various additional services to your clients besides building & maintaining their BC site. Support, tailored specifically to your client needs, is usually one of these value-added services. We are now enabling you to take your Support service to the next level. In Partner Portal Settings, you have the option to set a custom URL for what will open when your client clicks on Help & Support inside Admin Console:
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Infrastructure updates
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Limited trial sites for free partners – starting with our May release, the number of trial sites a Free Partner can have will be limited to 100. Once the limit is reached, Free Partners that need to create a new trial site have the options to upgrade to a higher partner plan, upgrade some of the trial sites to paid or delete unused/expired trials.
Automatic trial expiry extension - with this release, trial site expiry date will be automatically extended with 30 days every time an admin user logs in the system through the admin interface or through FTP.
Installed additional hardware - we have installed additional web servers on all our data centers, that translate into an increase of the existing capacity with over 70%.
Updated DNS infrastructure - we have improved the DNS resolution for email delivery so that we can increase the rate at which we're sending the system operational emails
HTTP acceleration – all sites static assets are served from a new cache engine (images, CSS and JavaScript files, together with improved headers that should allow the browser to cache them better for a browsing session). This update has been turned on along with our April release, and has made all the BC sites load faster on first and on subsequent loads.
Accelerated site/partner creation – we've changed the way new sites are created for faster speed, pre-creating them and reusing pre-created sites when needed, and have also improved the creation process for new partners, minimizing the impact of new CCM customers on the existing datacenters.
Adobe ID for partners - in order to support an integrating experience between the various Adobe tools a partner may use (Dreamweaver, Muse, Support forums) we have added Adobe ID support for Business Catalyst partner accounts. Starting April 19, partners are asked to merge their current Business Catalyst account with their Adobe ID accounts. For more details about the transition process and FAQ please read the Introducing Adobe ID blog post.
Updated Terms of Use - Along with several other changes in our processes in the past few months, we also revamped our Terms of Use and the signature process by requesting every admin user to sign a TOU. We have completed the rollout for partners, and we might be pushing an updated partner Terms of Use version within the following weeks. For more details and questions about this change, read the New Terms of Use for Business Catalyst blog post.
Features and enhancements
Site templates
To support the increasing number of partners building, sharing or reusing templates to create new sites, we're extending our site templates support from our partner portal with a new template type and improved management support. The update is going to enable partners to mark sites as templates and choose between making them available in Online Business Builder and keeping them private in their partner portal. A template site will not expire and has the same limits as any other trial site.
Based on your partner level, you can create private or public templates using the Site Details screen or the Tools>My Site Template section from your Partner Portal. Standard partners can only create private templates, while Free Partners can only view site templates that have been transferred to their accounts by other partners.
The number of templates a partner will have will be limited and will vary based on partner level: free partners can store up to 5 templates in their partner portal, standard partners have up to 100 site templates while Premium Partners might have up to 200 templates. Paid sites marked as templates are not counted against these limits.
Business Catalyst Partner fixes
While we are really focused on making the Business Catalyst integration into Creative Cloud a smashing success, we are slowly resuming our efforts to deliver fixes that have been requested by our partners. This release includes the following partner fixes:
Improved product custom fields - we have increased the maximum number of characters for product custom fields to 1024 (previous limit was 256); this gives partners and customers additional space to use when working with products
Improved Secure Zone subscribers list - we have added the customer email address in the Secure Zone Subscribers list to enable partners better filter and manage customers
Better experience when exporting data - to prevent customer confusion when exporting data from Mac computers, we have removed the export to excel option and exporting in CSV format by default.
Social plugins integration updates
Starting with our May release, we are updating the social plugins support to require users to get the plugin code from the third party provider and saving into his Business Catalyst website. The module tags and configuration will remain unchanged, but will render an empty tag until the partner or site owner will update the module template to include the corresponding module code snippet from the third party platform provider.
For more information about how you can enable the Social Plugins on a Business Catalyst websites, read the Social Media: Integrating Facebook and Twitter knowledge base article.
Other changes
Updated weekly emails - Starting with our May release, the information in the site weekly emails has been filtered based on the site's plan. For example, webBasics site reports will no longer include the sales report.
Localization - we improved and increased the coverage of the admin interface translations into German, French and Japanese
Site Settings -> Ignored IP addresses has been relocated under Reports -> Visitors -> More.
BC-Dreamweaver integration performance improvements
Development Dashboard has been removed, as it didn't provide a clear useful, ongoing benefit. The information present in the development dashboard has been integrated into our new Help & Support section.
Payment gateway settings - for more privacy and data protection, we have updated the Payment Gateway configuration screens to obfuscate the sensitive login information. Fields that have been obfuscated are now requiring confirmation.
Report abuse badge on trial sites - for compliance reasons, a "Report Abuse" link has been added to the front-end of all trial sites of free partners that don't have any paid sites. When they click the Report Abuse link, site visitors are redirected to a form submission page on businesscatalyst.com site.
Issues fixed by May release
Issues 3051303, 3168786 - Workflow notifications - Fixed a problem preventing workflow notifications emails from being sent.(see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Issue 3164074 - Fixed a bug causing the lightbox gallery created from Muse to be displayed behind page elements
Issue 3162810 - Fixed a bug in rendering engine to prevent content placed between body and head tags being incorrectly moved inside the body tag
Issue 3166610 - Fixed a broken link to Partner Portal in Internet Explorer
Issue 3175003 - Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect price display for the Year One-Off Setup Fee when upgrading a site from Admin using CB
Issue 2567278 - Fixed a bug causing site replication to ignore product attributes
Issue 2947989 - CRM passwords are now case sensitive
Issue 2723731 - Removed CSS files from the head section of the Layouts files, when downloaded and opened in Dreamweaver, via the BC extension
Business Catalyst new admin interface updates
Added "Save and Add New" button in Web App Item Add & Edit screens (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Quick Actions menus to add more actions (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to display deleted items (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed a display issue on File Manager making top buttons unreachable (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed the scrollbars in Email Marketing>Campaign>Stats>Bounced Emails reports (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to brake after selecting the current page from the Recent Items menu (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Replaced the Success notification displayed when selecting Users or Permissions tabs from User Roles with an Warning
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Fixed a missing file JavaScript error occurring when trying to open image manager from product details-> Attributes -> options
Moved System Emails section from Site Setting to Site Manager (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Domain Management interfaces to close the modal window and refresh the domain list after successfully adding a domain
Fixed an issue preventing the Hyperlink Manager to function properly (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated the confirmation message received after copying a page to match the new workflow and button names
Fixed an issue causing the current screen or section to not be highlighted in the menu
Updated styling on the new dashboard, user management and email accounts interfaces
Updated dashboard reports filters and chart display; made the chart and the filter use the site time zone
Fixed an issue preventing users from inviting new admin users or create new email accounts on Internet Explorer 8
Fixed an issue preventing users from deleting Email Accounts or Admin Users in Internet Explorer 8
Fixed some issues preventing password recovery email from being sent
Removed the alert message displayed when the user or email account limit has been reached
Added localization for the simplified dashboard
Fixed display issues for site limits, domains and user list in the simplified dashboard
Added Custom reports for webBasics plan
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Added TOU checkbox in the email account setup screen
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Fixed an issue causing the File Manager editor toolbar to incorrectly render if page URL path is longer than certain value; starting with this release, the site URL is trimmed
Fixed an issue causing the invite users to be displayed as [object Object] in dashboard and admin user list
Fixed a bug in the new admin causing the interface to become unresponsive when using the browser Back button
Fixed an issue in the new File Manager causing "Save Draft" button to publish the default page template instead of creating a draft version
Fixed a broken invite link issue in the Email Account invite email
Updated loading indicators in File Manager and Email Accounts screens
What's next
The first item on the what's next list might not be news for many of you, but it's definitely one of the most important milestones this year. The Creative Cloud launch is just around the corner, and Business Catalyst is playing an important role in that, as the publishing platform for Adobe® Muse and Dreamweaver. This launch will capture all our attention within the next weeks as we want it to be our best ever.
We'll start our next development cycle on May 15th, while the next Business Catalyst release is going to be pushed live in mid June. That being said, the following items are already on our launch plan for the next release and a few more will join the list. Please expect an update on our 2012 plans around mid May.
HTTP throttling – all page load and API calls to BC will be protected against attacks, this might trigger problems for API heavy sites. We are looking into enabling this update along with our June release, and will help make sure that a reasonable number of requests will be accepted from the same computer per minute.
Automatic site deletion - Starting with the June release, we are going to start automatically delete expired trial sites and canceled sites. Customers will be notified twice before we are going to proceed with deleting the sites.
Thank you,
Cristinel Anastasoaie
Adobe Business Catalyst Product Manager

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Hi all,
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I have now created a site with all the functionality I need, including some Site and List workflows - all of them containing my custom activities. I saved the site as a template - including content - and the process was completed successfully.
My problem is that when I try to create a site based on that template, I get the following error:
Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityNotFoundException: The activity named 'WorkflowXaml_66b9230b_823e_4783_82b8_daf481237847' from scope '/spo/d42a4487-9465-4347-9f2c-a2718e92fc02/74d0f9e7-fb35-493d-86fb-ab7aa27da7e0/c2e1bf45-cf67-4e13-9755-421cf92395f8'
was not found. HTTP headers received from the server - ActivityId: 0997496a-5a15-4b83-82eb-727881eefa67. NodeId: . Scope: . Client ActivityId : c82f6e9c-9f8f-808b-7679-f2c0f92a339d. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error
After a number of trials and errors, I am certain that this relates to my custom activities. i have already tested all of the following scenarios:
Delete the workflow with the custom actions: Site is created successfully.
Create a new workflow with no custom actions and save the site as a template:
Site is created successfully.
Save the site template including a workflow with my custom activities, but not including content:
Site is created successfully, but my workflow is not there.
Create a new custom workflow activities sandbox with one custom activity that just writes something to the history list - just to make sure that this is not related to any specific solution. Save the site as a template:
Site creation throws the same error.
Packaged my workflow (with my custom activities) as a wsp from SharePoint Designer and deployed it as a custom solution. Activated the feature in the target site. The workflow gets created and executing finally. Saved the site as template: Site
creation throws the same error.
Same as above, but without activating the feature in the target site: Site created successfully, workflow works fine after I activate the feature in the new site.
My custom activities feature is always enabled in the site I save as template - in all of the above scenarios.
I have tested all of the above scenarios both on SharePoint 2013 on-premise and Office 365. There is
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the fundamental concept of re-usability.
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to the following blog post for more information
http://sharepointserved.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-duplicate-name-was-found.html
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/11944/error-when-creating-a-site-from-custom-template-a-duplicate-field-name-name
Cheers,

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I have created a site using a site subscription and a SharePoint Foundation 2013 Feature Pack ( used the SP Foundation Feature Pack Script here http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/SharePoint-2013-Foundation-d3d1637f that
was created by Spencer Harbar)
When I go to create a sub-site, there are 3 site templates that are available that strictly speaking should not be for Foundation edition. When I try and create sites using those I get errors because the features needed from them are not part of the subscription.
The site templates available are:
Collaboration > Project Site
Enterprise > Document Center
Enterprise > Records Center
Does any one know why these would be displaying?

Hello, if I remember correctly the issue was that I created the form with InfoPath 2013 and was trying to test using InfoPath 2010. This does not work.
Did you create the form using InfoPath 2013?

How to Create a Custom Project Site Template Using Visual Studio

I know how to make changes and save a site as a template but I need to be able to create a new project site template during deployment to different environments. Trying to have this not be a manual process.

Hello,
This article might help:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sambetts/archive/2013/10/17/creating-a-clean-visual-studio-solution-from-a-sharepoint-2013-site-template.aspx
Start with a default Project Site (create a new site from the Project site template) and save out the WSP then import into VS.
Paul
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http://pwmather.wordpress.com | CPS

OIM: Error while deploying Custom Approval Process for Self-Register

While deploying the Custom Approval Process for Self-Register, i am getting the following error in scac.log file
Nov 16, 2011 2:48:58 PM oracle.fabric.common.wsdl.SchemaManager isIncrementalBuildSupported
INFO: XMLSchema incremental build enabled.
Nov 16, 2011 2:48:58 PM com.collaxa.cube.CubeLogger info
INFO: validating "ApprovalProcess.bpel" ...
oracle.jrf.UnknownPlatformException: JRF is unable to determine the current application server platform.
     at oracle.jrf.ServerPlatformSupportFactory.getInstance(ServerPlatformSupportFactory.java:79)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.WLSPlatformConfigurationProvider.<clinit>(WLSPlatformConfigurationProvider.java:44)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.FabricConfigManager.<clinit>(FabricConfigManager.java:155)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.xpath.FabricXPathFunctionResolver.loadXpathFunctions(FabricXPathFunctionResolver.java:271)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.xpath.FabricXPathFunctionResolver.loadXPathConfigFile(FabricXPathFunctionResolver.java:153)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.xpath.FabricXPathFunctionResolver.init(FabricXPathFunctionResolver.java:51)
     at com.collaxa.cube.xml.xpath.BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.loadFabricXpathFunctions(BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.java:57)
     at com.collaxa.cube.xml.xpath.BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.<init>(BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.java:48)
     at com.collaxa.cube.xml.xpath.BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.<clinit>(BPELXPathFunctionNameResolver.java:44)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.<init>(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:122)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.AssignValidator.<init>(AssignValidator.java:89)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BpelParser.<init>(BpelParser.java:452)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BPELValidator.validate(BPELValidator.java:60)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.BPEL1Processor.validate(BPEL1Processor.java:329)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.BPEL1Processor.process(BPEL1Processor.java:153)
     at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeParserHelper.compile(CubeParserHelper.java:47)
     at oracle.fabric.bpel.bpelc.BPELComponentValidator.validate(BPELComponentValidator.java:40)
     at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.validateComponentTypeServicesReferences(ValidateComposite.java:1117)
     at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.doValidation(ValidateComposite.java:500)
     at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.run(ValidateComposite.java:150)
     at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.main(ValidateComposite.java:135)
Nov 16, 2011 2:49:00 PM CubeProcessGenerator compile
WARNING: classpath is: D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\jdev\extensions\oracle.sca.modeler.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-runtime.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.mgmt_11.1.1\soa-infra-mgmt.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\oracle.fabriccommon_11.1.1\fabric-common.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.mediator_11.1.1\mediator_client.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\oracle.mds_11.1.1\mdsrt.jar;D:\OIMPS1\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\oracle.jps_11.1.1\jps-manifest.jar;;D:\OIMPS1\Middleware\Oracle_IDM1\server\workflows\new-workflow\process-template\SelfRegistrationApprovalApp\SelfRegistrationApproval\SCA-INF\classes;D:\OIMPS1\Middleware\Oracle_IDM1\server\workflows\new-workflow\process-template\SelfRegistrationApprovalApp\SelfRegistrationApproval\SCA-INF\classes;D:\OIMPS1\Middleware\Oracle_IDM1\server\workflows\new-workflow\process-template\SelfRegistrationApprovalApp\SelfRegistrationApproval\SCA-INF\gen-classes;D:\OIMPS1\Middleware\Oracle_IDM1\server\workflows\new-workflow\process-template\SelfRegistrationApprovalApp\SelfRegistrationApproval\SCA-INF\lib\oimclient.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\commonj.sdo_2.1.0.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\oracle.fabriccommon_11.1.1\fabric-common.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\oracle_common\modules\oracle.xdk_11.1.0\xmlparserv2.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\bpel1-1-xbeans.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel-common.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\bpel_coherence_config.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel-exts.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\thirdparty.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\bpm-analytics.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel-thirdparty.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\wsif-binding.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\orabpel-validator.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\monitor-rt-xbean.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1\oracle.soa.bpmn.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\user-patch.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.thirdparty.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\uddi\lib\oracle.soa.uddi.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\bpm-infra.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\testfwk-xbeans.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-ext.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\soa-infra-scheduler.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\xmlunit-1.1.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-runtime.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\soa-infra-tools.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\soa-xpath-exts.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\oracle-soa-client-api.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.wls.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-client.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-runtime-ext-was.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-runtime-ext-wls.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\oracle.soa.fabric.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.workflow_11.1.1\bpm-services.jar;D:\JDev11g\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.ext_11.1.1\classes
In scac_out.xml file following is the error message
<Fault>
<severity>error</severity>
<loc>/ns:composite</loc>
<line/>
<col/>
<file/>
<msg>
<![CDATA[SCAC-50012]]>
</msg>
</Fault>

Hi,
I have run into the same problem with SOA 11.1.1.5 version. In my case after fixing the following two errors it seems to work fine.
If you have followed the guide, there must be some errors:
First the java code if copied then contains an extra enter value:
Instead of:
"try {
System.out.println("Prototype for invoking an OIM API from a SOA Composite");
System.out.println("RTM Usecase: Self Registration Approval by Organization
Administrator");"
Use the following:
"try {
System.out.println("Prototype for invoking an OIM API from a SOA Composite");
System.out.println("RTM Usecase: Self Registration Approval by Organization Administrator");"
The other error is that you should not use <BEAHOME>/oracle_common/modules/oracle.jps_11.1.1/jps-manifest.jar, but the <BEAHOME>/oracle_common/modules/oracle.jps_11.1.1/jps-api.jar in jdeveloper. After these the deployment to the application server works fine for me.

This workflow cannot be imported because it was created in SharePoint Designer for a different Site

Hello everyone. I am getting this error when attempting to move minor workflow changes from mirror SharePoint development / production environments and hoping someone can help me.
"This workflow cannot be imported because it was created in SharePoint Designer for a different site, or the original workflow has been moved or deleted. To move a workflow between sites, use Save as Template (.wsp file) instead of a Visio workflow
drawing."
So basically I have taken an image of our single SharePoint server, Domain Controller, and a client and restored them to an OFFLINE development environment for the testing of workflow changes prior to production. I've put quite a bit of time into one
particularly and would like to export/import rather than re-created from scratch.
I've successfully created the form template and imported. This created the necessary list items nicely and the form appears to work as expected. However, when attempting to import the .VWI file exported from dev SharePoint, I am getting the above
error. If I change the .VWI to .zip and remove the "workflow.xoml.wfconfig.xml" file, then re-zip and change the file extension back to .VWI I get a dialog that allows me to import, but I have to choose a new name and much of the related content
is lost. I need to be able to overwrite/merge the existing workflow with the import. Any suggestions?
One strange thing I ran into was during a test of an export/import from and to the exact same environment. If I simply export to .VWI, then import from .VWI with no changes, SAME everything I still get this error. Very weird. Hoping someone can shed some
light on the subject. Thank you.
Adam Tyler

Hi Adam,
Here is a blog talk about the same issue would be helpful:
http://techiescode.blogspot.com/2014/09/copymove-sharepoint-2010-designer.html
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support

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