27 may 2013

MouseOut close of ADF Popup with dialog inside.

A couple of months ago I was helping development of ADF 11g application. One of the most important parts of that app was the menu bar.

This menu was designed to support 4 levels, and almost 900 different options items. One of the problems that I faced was that some options of the menu opens a af:popup with an af:dialog inside. That options needs to be opened when user clicks, and self-closed when user moves out of dialog.

In summary, I need the mix of "mouseHover" and "action" types on my <af:showPopupBehavior> tag.

Check the following video to see the menu in action.



To modify the expected behavior of <af:showPopupBehavior> type "action" I've created this simple JavaScript function to overwrite ADF JS library.

AdfShowPopupBehavior.prototype.fire = function (a)
{
    a.cancel();
    var b = AdfPage.PAGE, c = this._type, d = a.getSource(), e = d.getClientId(), f = d.findComponent(this._popupId);
    if (AdfPage.PAGE.isScreenReaderMode() && (c == "mouseHover" || c == "mouseMove" || c == "mouseOver" || c == "mouseOut"))
    AdfLogger.LOGGER.fine("showPopupBehavior trigger type " + c + " suppressed in screen reader mode for launch source id: " + e);
    else if (f)
    {
        var g = f._delayedActivationState;
        if (g)
        if (g.launchSourceId == e)
            return;
        else 
        b.cancelTimer(g.timerId), 
        delete f._delayedActivationState;
        if (f.isPopupVisible())
        {
            var h = this._getPopupWindow(f);
            if (h == null)
            return;
            g = this._isInlinePopupSelector(h);
            h = this._wasOpendedFromSameSource(h, e);
            if (g)
            {
                if (f.hide(), h)
                    return 
            }
            else 
            h || f.hide()
        }
        var k = this._align, h = this._alignId, g = 
        {
        };
        g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_LAUNCH_ID] = e;
        var l = this._type == AdfComponentEvent.CONTEXT_MENU_EVENT_TYPE;
        if (h || k || l)
        {
            k && (g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_ALIGN] = k, h || (h = d.getClientId(), k = h.lastIndexOf(":"), k !=  - 1 && (h = h.substring(k + 1))));
            h && ((k = d.findComponent(h)) ? g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_ALIGN_ID] = k.getClientId() : AdfLogger.LOGGER.warning("Unable to find align component: ", h));
            if (l)
            g[AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_TYPE] = AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_TYPE_MENU, g[AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_AUTODISMISS] = AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_AUTODISMISS_MENU, h || (h = AdfAgent.AGENT.getMousePosition(a.getNativeEvent()), g[AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_MOUSEPOSITION] = h);
            if (c == "mouseHover" || c == "action")
            g[AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_AUTODISMISS] = AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_AUTODISMISS_MOUSEOUT, g[AdfDhtmlPopupWindow.HINT_AUTODISMISS_MOUSEOUT_ID] = g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_ALIGN_ID] ? g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_ALIGN_ID] : g[AdfRichPopup.HINT_LAUNCH_ID]
        }
        a.getType() == AdfUIInputEvent.MOUSE_IN_EVENT_TYPE ? (a = b.scheduleTimer(this, this._onMouseOverTimeout, 
        {
            hints : g, popup : f, source : d
        },
500), f._delayedActivationState = 
        {
            timerId : a, launchSourceId : e
        },
        d.addEventListener(AdfUIInputEvent.MOUSE_OUT_EVENT_TYPE, this._fireCancel, this)) : f.show(g)
    }
    else 
    AdfLogger.LOGGER.severe("Could not find popup ", this._popupId, " from component ", d)
};

The line that changes the expected behavior is this one:

if (c == "mouseHover" || c == "action")

Include that JS fragment in a JS file and later import to your pageTemplate or JSPX page:

<af:resource type="javascript" source="../js/popbehavior.js"/>

Also, you can modify the delay time of mouse-out event modifiying the "500ms" value in the JS code.

 Useful links

9 abr 2013

WebCenter Spaces, navigation from one space to another space specifiying the destination path

Recently on a project we have the requirement of jumping from a Space to another one, but not the landing page.

This is the hierarchy and the desired navigation.






By default you can access to SpaceA with this URL: http://server/webcenter/spaces/spaceA

To access to second space the URL is http://server/webcenter/spaces/spaceB

Inside of SpacesB if you try to move to a "detail page" you can use http://server/webcenter/faces/news/detail because the navigation of the Space is the "default navigation" stored in memory.

Now imagine you're on SpaceA "home page", if you try to move to "detail page" of SpaceB you will get an error of 404 page not found.





This is produced because your current navigation is the default navigation defined in SpaceA.

To bypass this problem, we need to read the "default navigation" of SpaceB and create the correct link to the page.

First, we need the path of the "default navigation" of SpaceB, to get this value, we have to log as space administrator and go to the tab called "Resources".

Go to: http://server/webcenter/spaces/spaceB/admin

Select the correct resource and click "Edit Properties".


You will see a popup similar to this one, copy the value of the "Metadata File" clicking on "more" icon.





Now we have all needed information. It's time to create a "<af:goLink>" from one space to another.

Check this code:
<af:golink destination="#{navigationContext.navigationModel['/oracle/webcenter/siteresources/scopedMD/s8195d183_d2b1_4c90_b0fa_b541d2031f79/navigation/gsrbe2d4c14_2b20_4e1b_94aa_cc1930641d4e/default-navigation.xml'].node['news/detail'].goLinkPrettyUrl}" id="gl1">
</af:golink>


This is the syntax of the Expression Language (EL) used:

 #{navigationContext.navigationModel['<path to xml>'].node['<hierarchy>'].goLinkPrettyUrl}

This <af:goLink> will produce a HTML output like this:

http://server/webcenter/faces/news/detail?wc.contextURL=/spaces/spaceA&&wcnav.model=%2Foracle%2Fwebcenter%2Fsiteresources%2FscopedMD%2Fs8195d183_d2b1_4c90_b0fa_b541d2031f79%2Fnavigation%2Fgsrbe2d4c14_2b20_4e1b_94aa_cc1930641d4e%2Fdefault-navigation

 Souces:
  • WebCenter Developer's guide (link)

19 feb 2013

Using CMIS query with boolean metadata

Often we create boolean type metadata on WebCenter Content. This type of metadata in fact is an integer type metadata, but uses a system internal view called "YesNoView".

Check screenshots above to see the default configuration of this kind of metadata.



If we check the standard "Check-in" page, the metadata is represented with a "combo-box" input.





You can use this metatada to perform searchs over UCM and retrive the contents that are checked as "hidden" (in this example).


Since WebCenter PS3 was released, you can show content on WebCenter Portal/Spaces with "Content-Presenter (CP)" taskflow. This component shows contents stored at content server (UCM).

CP allows the user to define a query that searchs on content-server the items that matches your query. This is done over CMIS standard instead UCM query syntax.

Now, we try to add a content-presenter on a page, and query filtering with the new metadata (Hidden content). This is the CP wizard screenshot.


Remember to check that the new metadata is in "Filters" section. And save/close the wizard...

The system will show some error stacktrace, this is a summary

Caused by: oracle.webcenter.content.integration.RepositoryException: 19-feb-2013 17:00:46 oracle.webcenter.content.integration.spi.ucm.search.SearchService search
GRAVE: Se ha producido un error al buscar el repositorio ucm. Se ha recibido el código de estado -1 al llamar al servicio GET_SEARCH_RESULTS, como usuario weblogic y registro de hora 19/02/13 17:00. La búsqueda es Search[repositoryId=ucm, max to return=5, useFullTextSearch=true, useCache=true, sort="toProperty('dDocTitle') ASC", fullText="
 Metadata criteria((cm_contentType equals IDC:GlobalProfile)AND(xHiddenContent [any] equals true))
 isOr=false"] y la asignación de parámetros es {ResultCount=5, FolderPathInSearchResults=1, SortField=dDocTitle, IdcService=GET_SEARCH_RESULTS, SortOrder=ASC, vcrAppendObjectClassInfo=1, StartRow=1, QueryText=(xHiddenContent  `true`), vcrContentType=IDC:GlobalProfile}.


If you have installed WebCenter Spaces, we can try the Web-interface to test the CMIS queries. In my case I tried the following URLs:
  • http://owc:8888/rest/api/cmis/query/q/ucm?q=SELECT * FROM ora:t:IDC:GlobalProfile WHERE ora:p:xTuiHiddenContent = TRUE
  • http://owc:8888/rest/api/cmis/query/q/ucm?q=SELECT * FROM ora:t:IDC:GlobalProfile WHERE ora:p:xTuiHiddenContent = 1

And the following errors were launched

oracle.webcenter.content.integration.cmis.query.ParseException: Feb 19, 2013 5:19:27 PM oracle.webcenter.content.integration.cmis.query.VcrExpressionSearchDelegate fixLiteral
SEVERE: Comparing boolean property [xHiddenContent] to non-Boolean literal [1]


oracle.webcenter.content.integration.RepositoryException: Feb 19, 2013 5:19:33 PM oracle.webcenter.content.integration.spi.ucm.search.SearchService search
SEVERE: An error occurred when searching repository ucm.  When calling service GET_SEARCH_RESULTS, as user anonymous, at timestamp 2/19/13 5:19 PM, received status code -1.   The search was Search[repositoryId=ucm, max to return=26, useFullTextSearch=false, useCache=true, expr="(toProperty('xHiddenContent') == true && toProperty('cm_contentType') == 'IDC:GlobalProfile')"] and the parameter map was {ResultCount=26, FolderPathInSearchResults=1, SortField=dInDate, IdcService=GET_SEARCH_RESULTS, SortOrder=Desc, vcrAppendObjectClassInfo=1, StartRow=1, QueryText=(xHiddenContent  `1`), vcrContentType=IDC:GlobalProfile}.

To solve this, there is a workaround that we can do, without affecting the content already stored at UCM.

First create a table in UCM (using ConfigurationManager Applet), this table should have a structure similar to this one:



After that, we create a view that uses that table, similar to this one:



Next you should add the values for true/false.


And finally, attach the new view created to the metadata, replacing the system "YesNoView" with the "YesNoCustomView" just created.


Now, restart WebCenter Spaces and try with this URL:

  • http://owc:8888/rest/api/cmis/query/q/ucm?q=SELECT * FROM ora:t:IDC:GlobalProfile WHERE ora:p:xHiddenContent = 1
Now the query is correctly performed over CMIS standard. And if you try CP Wizard now also works without problems.

I hope this information helps on your project.

Related Information 



12 feb 2013

java.net.socketpermission on WebCenter Content (UCM) Applets

After the one of the last updates of my local JRE I couln't connect to the UCM Applets of the client throught the proxy connection.

This error appears:


To solve this issue, go to your "java.policy" file, mine is under this path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\security\java.policy

Modify your file and add this line at the end of the file:


permission java.net.SocketPermission "*", "connect,accept,resolve"; 

After that modification, close all your browsers and retry to open the Applet.



NullPointerException in VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPE service

Recently I was debugging an error in WebCenter Portal, that didn't allow the user to search over a content-server instance with a Content-Presenter TaskFlow.

In this case, we had 2 instances of UCM connected to WebCenter Portal application, the first one works without problems, but when we attached the second one, and you try to query over it, the page is refreshed and the content-presenter wizard is closed.



The Portal log shows this error:

Caused By: oracle.stellent.ridc.protocol.ServiceException: Could not load information about VCR content type. Unable to execute service method 'vcrGetContentTypeInfo'. The error was caused by an internally generated issue. The error has been logged.
 at oracle.stellent.ridc.protocol.ServiceResponse.getResponseAsBinder(ServiceResponse.java:135)
 at oracle.stellent.ridc.protocol.ServiceResponse.getResponseAsBinder(ServiceResponse.java:107)



And looking at UCM log this error is shown:

services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89 !csUserEventMessage,sysadmin,CIS!$ intradoc.common.ServiceException: !csVcrCouldNotLoadContentType!csUnableToExecMethod,vcrGetContentTypeInfo
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89 *ScriptStack VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPE
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89 3:vcrGetContentTypeInfo,**no captured values**
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceRequestImplementor.buildServiceException(ServiceRequestImplementor.java:2115)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.buildServiceException(Service.java:2260)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.createServiceExceptionEx(Service.java:2254)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.createServiceException(Service.java:2249)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceHandler.executeAction(ServiceHandler.java:102)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.doCodeEx(Service.java:533)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.doCode(Service.java:505)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceRequestImplementor.doAction(ServiceRequestImplementor.java:1643)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.doAction(Service.java:477)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceRequestImplementor.doActions(ServiceRequestImplementor.java:1458)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.doActions(Service.java:472)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceRequestImplementor.executeActions(ServiceRequestImplementor.java:1391)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.executeActions(Service.java:458)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceRequestImplementor.doRequest(ServiceRequestImplementor.java:737)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.Service.doRequest(Service.java:1890)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceManager.processCommand(ServiceManager.java:435)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.IdcServerThread.processRequest(IdcServerThread.java:265)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.IdcServerThread.run(IdcServerThread.java:160)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.vcr.VcrServiceHandler.addPropertyChoicesForFieldAndView(VcrServiceHandler.java:514)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.vcr.VcrServiceHandler.vcrGetContentTypeInfo(VcrServiceHandler.java:464)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.common.IdcMethodHolder.invokeMethod(IdcMethodHolder.java:86)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.common.ClassHelperUtils.executeMethodReportStatus(ClassHelperUtils.java:324)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         at intradoc.server.ServiceHandler.executeAction(ServiceHandler.java:79)
 services/3 02.07 15:22:14.039 IdcServer-89         ... 16 more



After seeing that the problem resides at UCM service execution we see that the status-code returned is -32. (Any status-code lower than 0 means service execution error).

Looking at the dDocTypes all appears correctly, but after accessing to the "Check-in" form, some errors can give us an idea of the problem. When I access to check-in form, some alerts are showed to the user indicating that some of the metadata "views" seems corrupted.




To find out wich metadata is the one that uses that view, I've opened Firebug and look for that view on JS files.


The metadata called "xIsEditable" is using YesNoList view, its recommended to perform more search and see how many metadata fields are using that view.

The problem in this case was that the view was empty and didn't have any value, this causes the NPE (NullPointerException) in the execution of the service VCR_GET_CONTENT_TYPE.

After adding values to the view, and going back to check-in page, no more "alert" of view errors were shown.

Now the UCM is ready to be used again with content-presenter, and the problem solved.

23 nov 2012

Showing first tab always in a ADF panelTabbed

Oracle ADF panelTabbed component has the capability of remember the last Tab that the user keeps opened.

When the user get back to the page or taskflow that contains the af:panelTabbed, the last tab opened will be shown instead of the first tab.

If you want to show always first tab as "opened", there is a couple of parameters at the af:showDetailItem that will help us.

This  is a sample code that will make the trick:

<af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1" layout="vertical">
  <af:panelTabbed id="ptab1" position="above">
    <af:showDetailItem text="First" id="sdi1" persist="disclosed" disclosed="true"/>
    <af:showDetailItem text="Second" id="sdi2" persist="disclosed" disclosed="false"/>
    <af:showDetailItem text="Third" id="sdi3" persist="disclosed" disclosed="false"/>
  </af:panelTabbed>
</af:panelGroupLayout>  


 Check ADF Tag Library

Big thanks to my co worker María for finding the solution :-)

Download sample project

26 oct 2012

Validate check-in form fields with Javascript

At one of my current projects we faced the problem that the dDocName field was filled with no common characters by the user.

For example they insert spaces and letters (like áéíóú). This kind of contentID was breaking the indexer process of UCM.

Most of you will tell me to use the AUTO_NUMBER property of content server, but on some type of content, the user have to insert a specified dDocName for our SSXA Web project.

To prevent contentID like "BIOGRAFÍA CATALÁN", we developed a custom component that performs a JS validation before check-in process.

For the validation I've created a REGEX expresion that allows only letters, numbers and underscore.

This is the code inserted in the custom-component. As you see, this will "include" all system validations with the <$include super.custom_schema_validation_script_post$> sentence.
After that, starts our custom validation, we only have to return "false" if we want to cancel the check-in process.

<@dynamichtml custom_schema_validation_script_post@>
<$include super.custom_schema_validation_script_post$>
<$if ((dpAction like "CheckinSel" or dpAction like "CheckinNew" or dpAction like "Update"))$>
if (document.Checkin != null && document.Checkin.dDocName != null)
{
var name = document.Checkin.dDocName.value;
if(name != null && name != '' && name.length > 0)
{
 var rgx_docname = /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,30}$/;
 
 if (rgx_docname.test(name))
 {
  vstatus = "Ok";
 }
 else
 {
  vstatus = "Error";
  alert("Error: You cannot use non-ASCII characters for ContentID");
  return false;
 }
}
}
<$endif$>   
<@end@>

Download here the custom-component for your customization and use.