As of late April 2014, FrameworkFolders support on Oracle WebCenter Portal has been enabled by Oracle WebCenter 11.1.1.8.3 . Previously, Oracle WebCenter Portal only supported Folders_g. Now it's time to review the essentials on what , why and how . What's Framework Folders? Introduced in WebCenter PS5, the framework folders (also called folders component) provide a hierarchical folder interface, similar to conventional file system, for organizing and locating some or all of the content in the repository. It's a scalable, enterprise solution and is meant to be a replacement for contribution folders (folders_g component). Why it's better than Folders_g (FrameworkFolders vs. Folders_g)? With the FrameworkFolders component as the underlying folder architecture, many functionalities and features have been made available. Mass metadata updates with folders (metadata propagation): "Query Folders" is added in the FrameworkFolders component. Query fold...