Oracle® Fusion Middleware

What's New for Oracle WebCenter Sites

Release 12.2.1.1

E75410-01

June 2016

What’s New for Oracle WebCenter Sites

Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added recently to improve your Oracle WebCenter Sites experience.

Topics:

- Release 12.2.1.1.0— June 2016

- Other Noteworthy Changes

Release 12.2.1.1.0— June 2016

Feature

Description

Content Audit Report

The Content Audit report provides an overall picture of the content management system at any given time. It provides details about the content managed, published, content in workflow, as well as the authors working on the content. See

- Working With Content Audit Reports

- Customizing Content Audit Reports

History Tab

The History tab, available in the Inspect view of the Form mode of an asset, displays the different actions performed on an asset, such as created, edited, check out, check in, approve and so on. See

- About History Tab

A/B Testing

The Oracle WebCenter Sites: A/B Testing feature enables marketers to experiment with design and content variations on website pages and determine which variations produce the optimal results, before making permanent changes to the website.
See:

- Developing for A/B Testing

- Administering A/B Testing

- Working with A/B Testing

- A/B Testing Properties

MVC Framework

Oracle WebCenter Sites provides a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework and Java APIs for developing server-side websites, as well as REST APIs for building websites rendered on the client side.
See:

- Website Development with the MVC Framework and APIs

- Developing a Server-Side Website

- Developing a Client-Side Website

Upgrade support

The upgrade support from Oracle WebCenter Sites 11.1.1.8.0 and 12.2.1.0.0 releases is available in 12.2.1.1.0. For more information see Upgrading Oracle WebCenter Sites to 12c (12.2.1.1).

Other Noteworthy Changes

Feature

Description

Core Properties

Properties under the Core category are created by WebCenter Sites during installation. The properties include database configuration properties, installation properties, and properties that specify the type of system you are running. Added the following core properties:

- wcsites.assethistory.enabled

- wcsites.diskspacewarningemail

- wcsites.diskspacewarningsize

See Properties in the Core Category.

Eloqua Integration Properties

Properties under the Eloqua Integration category are related to integrating the Eloqua Cloud Marketing Service (Eloqua) with Oracle WebCenter Sites. Integrating Eloqua with WebCenter Sites provides marketers with the ability to converge the visitor's online experience with their marketing campaigns, as well as more effectively manage the visitor journey. The integration eliminates content duplication and streamlines content targeting across channels. Added a new section on Eloqua integration properties. See Properties in the Eloqua Integration Category.

Engage Properties

Engage is a WebCenter Sites marketing component that enables WebCenter Sites users to create assets that collect visitor data, define visitors into segments, recommend products and content to visitors based on segments, and run promotions that apply to all or specific segments. Properties categorized under the Engage category enable administrators to manage the visitor data collected by Engage assets, and configure the options marketers can choose from when creating Engage assets. Added the following Engage properties:

- sessionvisitor.attributes.driver

- sessionvisitor.attributes.password

- sessionvisitor.attributes.user

- vis.useSessionVisitorConnection

- sessionvisitor.attributes.url

See Properties in the Engage Category.

Security Properties

Properties in the Security category determine how security is configured on both the management and the delivery systems. Additionally, Security properties with the sub category Content Security allow you to configure content security protection for websites developed through WebCenter Sites. Added the following Security properties:

- X-XSS-Protection

- X-Content-Type-Options

See Properties in the Security Category.

User Properties

Properties under the User category in the WebCenter Sites wcs_properties.json file are related to implementing WebCenter Sites users. This includes creating and registering user names with LDAP and the WebCenter Sites database tables. Added the jndi.context.referral property. See Properties in the User Category.

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