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Hi Folks, I personally welcome you to join my session @ Collaborate 13 on Responsive Web Design on WebCenter Portal. #129 - Responsive Web Design on WebCenter Portal Date: Monday, April 8 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Location: Mile High Ballroom 4D Here is the link to my session: http://coll13.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18AECEC0 Companies are often struggling to keep up with all the popular website delivery channels: internet, intranet, extranet, workstations, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, etc. New devices are emerging as you read this. The display technology is evolving so fast that it feels like your website is obsolete before it is published. Is there a solution? Responsive web design (RWD), introduced in 2010, is intended to be the solution. This session provides the definition of RWD, the benefits, and how it can bring value to your organization. This session also addresses how to deliver your WebCenter-based websit...

In a modernized ADF/WebCenter Portal application, it's very common to have an image slider that can slide images automatically/manually from one to another. If you are thinking of implementing such functionality, my post here might help you. The image slider transition is implemented by JQuery. I will not focus anything on JQuery as there are many third party JQuery plugin out there for such image sliding effect. But those plugins are not ready to use for your ADF/WebCenter application, due to ADF technology itself which is based on faces components. Here I am presenting a working copy of such implementation. The plugin I used here is "jFlow Plus v2". You can download the plugin and find more info about it here: http://wordimpress.com/demos/jflowplus-v2/. To preview the finished version built on top of ADF, here is the screenshot: Here are several things I want to emphasize: Determine your page layout - flow layout or stretch layout. You always want to determin...

Recently I have a request from a customer to change the label of Comment button of the DocumentViewer TaskFlow in a WebCenter Portal application, from "Comment" to "Post your comment". Here is a screenshot of the standard view of the documentViewer Taskflow with the comment sidebar. The request itself is a customization request to change a label of a command button inside a built-in WebCenter Taskflow. There are two options to deal with customizations for WebCenter Portal: seeded customization or runtime customization. To give you an upfront warning, the seeded customization will not work for this case, and I will explain why. First, let's look at the seeded customizations. To enable seeded customization, there are several prerequisites to do. Make sure in the application adf-config.xml, customization class is is pointing oracle.adf.share.config.SiteCC in the MDS configuration. Enable the seeded customization option in project property - ADF View...