The JavaEE Xperience

Documenting some of the quirks, bugs and workarounds in WebCenter Spaces. These apply to PS2. Read the rest of this entry »

Contd from here.

I’ve managed to solve this. Thanks to the Oracle support note 1068828.1, we looked at MDS customizations as an option. It’s still a bit of a hack but works for our case. Read the rest of this entry »

Another bug? Validation messages from the ADF BC layer don’t display correctly within Webcenter Spaces. Instead of the custom validation message that’s setup in the BC layer, Spaces always displays “Unexpected error(s) occurred. You may want to contact Administrator with the error reference.” The error-ed fields are flagged correctly though. I have raised an SR with Oracle for this. I am told that Webcenter Spaces considers any Exception outside of the oracle.webcenter package to be an unexpected error. I am waiting to see if Oracle gets back with a feasible workaround. Hmmm!

Given that ADF taskflows are a recommended way to extend webcenter spaces, I find this limitation, well, very limiting.

I have two entities and associated views. Each of them have attributes with the same name. In my particular case, they are two dates – StartDate and EndDate. EndDate on both entities have validations (Script Expression). The validations check that the End Date is later than Start Date – “return newValue > StartDate”

I have a single create page that contains both these entities. What happens now is that if even one of the entities fail the validation, fields of both the entities are flagged. Renaming the attribute on one of the entity (and corresponding view object) seems to work. I am using this workaround for now. Have logged an SR with Oracle. Let’s wait and see if a bug gets filed.

I have a simplified repro case (contains Jdev project and SQL script) here - http://dox.bijesh.info/reproValidationMsg.zip