webag automat 8.0
Release Notes
February 3, 2012
1. What is new?
2. Installation
2.1
Installation Requirements
2.2 Upgrade-Installation
2.3 New Installation
1. What is new?
1.1 Flex Report Generator
The new webag automat report generator creates HTML-reports from
database content. The reports receive their content from
SQL-SELECT-statements and creates an HTML report with comprehensive
navigation features:
- Sort by any column
- Select Number of lines per page
- Pagination
- Filter by keyword
- Optionally choose language
- Download as Excel file.
1.2 Call automat webpages with custom parameters
From now you can call automat webpages with custom parameters. You
can use the parameter values in dynamic PL/SQL-blocks within your
stencil- or trigger-code.
There new webpage-parameters are attached to the webpage url as a list
of parameter-names (p_var=...) and a list of parameter-values
(p_val=...), each delimited by a semicolon.
Example:
www.webag.com/pls/test/wt_show.text_page?p_text_id=1234&p_var=LIST;PAGE&p_val=SHOP;3
1.3 Editor without javascript
Under the
WYSIWYG-Editor you can choose the link "Simple editor" to switch to a
conventional multiline textarea input field. This option is meant as a
workaroud for browsers without javascript support or in case of HTML
page-content that is too complex for the standard editor.
1.4 Improved HTML-code for the automat search-engine
We have refurbished the HTML-code of the search-engine. There are
no more tables and grey background colors. Thus the search-form and
search-result fit into any web-design.
1.5 Further improvements
The authoring system
has a more modern web design now. The left navigation tree has new
icons. Dialog boxes are displayed with CSS3 drop-shadow. Beautiful tabs
help to navigate through the authoring forms.
The search engine saves the pages unique TEXT_ID into the search-index.
Thus it is easier for authors to find a page within the content
database using the search field at the upper border of the authoring
interface.
Automat 8.0 has a new mail-api. The new mail-package wt_mail offers
functions for sending formatted HTML-emails and BLOB-attachments.
All internal Java-stored-procedures have been moved into a single
package called WT_JAVA_API. Reason: We intend to offe the webag automat
also on the free-of-charge ebtry-level database Oracle Express, which
has no Java capabilities.
We do not develop the old XML-form-system WT_FORM further. The left
navigation tree shows the old "Forms"-subtree only when setting the new
system-parameter ENABLE_WT_FORM = 1.
In automat 6.4 we introduced event-triggers in order to develop custom
PL/SQL-enhancements to the automat standard functionality. The
available triggers were BEFORE_SESSION_START, BEFORE_PUBLISH_PAGE and
AFTER_PUBLISH_PAGE. We now add two more triggers: BEFORE_SHOW_PAGE
fires before a webpage is send to the browser. AFTER_SHOW_PAGE fires
directly after sending the page to the browser.
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2.
Installation
2.1 Installation Requirements
Server
- Database:
- Oracle RDBMS from 10.2
- Minimum license "Oracle Standard Edition One"
- Webserver:
- Oracle 10g Application Server with Apache
Webserver or
- Oracle RDBMS 10g companion with
integrated Apache Webserver.
Authoring
workstation
- Firefox from version 3.0, MS
Internet Explorer from version 7.0, Chrome from 7.0, Opera
from
7.0 or Safari from 2.0
- Javascript activated.
2.2 Upgrade-Installation
2.2.1 Log
off
users
To do so, we would recommend closing down the
Apache Web Server for the
duration of the installation.
2.2.2 Backup
Before conducting the upgrade, back up your Automat database schema and the
Automat Web Server folders.
2.2.3 Install
software
Double-click on the command file upgrade.bat at the topmost level of the CD. This script
starts the Oracle tool SQL *Plus. Answer the questions about the
connect routine to your Automat scheme and about the Oracle RDBMS
version you are using. This automatically starts the relevant SQL
scripts. Next check the log files in the folder C:\Temp.
The installation-procedure starts with an Automat-schema
requirements-check. If the check encounters errors ist will print the
SQL-statements necessary to correct each error. Run the
correction-statements using SQL*Plus and restart the
upgrade-commandfile upgrade.bat
then.
2.2.4 Update
Automat Online Help
The Online Help files need to be replaced by the latest version in the \doc folder on the
installation CD. The URL of the virtual web server path to the Help
files can be found in the global settings parameters “HELPFILE_…” Copy all the files from
the CD folder \doc
to this destination.
2.2.5 Copy Automat-Images
Copy the WebAG Automat Images into your websercer
directory "/wt_img". Existing files may be overwritten.
Example: C:\>
COPY R:\automat\webserver\html\wt_img\*.*
D:\InetOracle\html\wt_img
2.2.6 Copy Automat-Stylesheets and Javascripts
Copy the WebAG Automat von der Installations-CD
aus dem Verzeichnis "automat/webserver/html/automat/css" und "automat/webserver/html/automat/js" in Ihre
Webserververzeichnisse "/automat/css" bzw. "/automat/js". Existing files may be overwritten.
2.2.7
Start Webserver
Now can restart the Apache webserver.
2.2.8 Check Workflow
Background Job
The Automat workflows need an Oracle background
job.
This jobs has to load upload files into the search engine. Check if the
job is running and (if not) restart it using the left Automat tree
"System / General / Background jobs". A good job-repeat-interval is 5
minutes.
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2.3 New Installation
The installation of a new WebAG Automat system is described
in detail in the Installation
Guide.
