This topic describes changes to features in Oracle Content Services 10g Release 1 (10.1.2). If you are upgrading to Oracle Content Services 10g from a previous release of Oracle Files, read the following information carefully, since there are significant differences in features and procedures.
Terminology Changes
The following key terms from past releases have changed in Oracle Content Services:
- Workspaces are now known as Libraries.
- There is no longer a need for separate Private and Public Folders. Oracle Content Services provides you with a Personal Library, and you control other users' access to this Library and its subfolders.
New Features and Changes
- A new Web user interface. The Oracle Content Services Web user interface has been designed to make file management simpler and easier. Files and folders are displayed in an easily navigated tree view.
- Improved Windows access. Oracle Content Services includes an integrated Oracle Drive desktop client. Oracle Drive is displayed as a drive on your Windows system. It shows your Oracle Content Services content on your desktop, and lets you easily transfer and synchronize files between your local machine and Oracle Content Services.
- Changes to File Synchronization Support. The Oracle FileSync client has been replaced by Oracle Drive. Oracle Drive provides file synchronization features similar to what was provided in Oracle FileSync.
- Edit-in-Place. You can now open and edit some files directly in Oracle Content Services through the browser, by using Oracle Drive, the Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, Web Folders, or through an ActiveX plugin in Internet Explorer.
- Improved security. In Oracle Content Services, you can specify who can access any file, folder, or Library you manage.
- Improved link management. In addition to e-mailing links to files, you can now create and store links to a file or folder in Oracle Content Services folders to which you have access.
- Integrated automatic antivirus protection. Oracle Content Services integrates with the Symantec Antivirus Scan Engine, which automatically scans your files for viruses when the files are downloaded or opened by an application.
- Containers. Oracle Content Services adds a special type of folder, called a Container, to provide users and Administrators with greater flexibility in organizing files and folders. For instance, Containers can be used to organize an Oracle Content Services Site by a company's business divisions or office locations.
- Libraries. A Library is a special type of folder. Unlike Containers and regular folders, each Library has a Trash folder and an allocated quota of disk space. Libraries were known as Workspaces in Oracle Files.
- Integration with Oracle Records Management. Oracle Records Management is a records management application that ships with Oracle Content Services.
- Enhanced Name Searches. Oracle Content Services ships with a new index that makes item name searches faster.
- Oracle Content Services does not support locks on folders. In Oracle Files, users could lock folders, which locked all items within the folders. Oracle Content Services supports locks on files, but does not support locks on folders. Non-folder items in Oracle Files folders that are locked at the time of upgrade will be locked in the new Oracle Content Services installation.
- Changes to the Archive structure. Items in the Archive are now organized by the date and time that they were moved into the Archive.
- Oracle Content Services does not support folder categories. Oracle Files allowed users to apply categories to folders; Oracle Content Services allows users to apply categories to individual files. When upgrading to Oracle Content Services, a document named
migrated_categories_for_parent_folderis created in folders that had categories assigned to them in Oracle Files. These documents contain information about the categories. You can then use this information to create new categories, which you can assign to individual files in Oracle Content Services.