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Right-click and choose Copy. Then, at the target location, right-click and choose Paste
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Press Ctrl+C on your keyboard. Then, at the target location, press Ctrl+V.
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Choose Copy from the Edit menu. Then, at the target location, choose Paste from the Edit menu. Please note that this is supported only in Windows Explorer, not
in e-mail applications.
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Drag and drop the selected folders andor files to the target location. Please note that if you copy an Oracle Content Server shortcut to a location outside the
Oracle Content Servers hierarchy for example, your desktop, the item copied is not a shortcut, but the actual file, which is no longer linked to the original file. This means
that you cannot check the file back in to the server as a new revision of the original file.
8.19.5 Deleting Content Folder and File Shortcuts
You can delete a shortcut to a content folder or file in much the same way as other items on your computer. After selecting the shortcut to be deleted, you can use all
standard Windows methods of deleting it:
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Right-click and choose Delete.
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Press Delete on your keyboard.
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Choose Delete from the File menu. Please note that this is supported only in Windows Explorer, not in e-mail applications.
8.20 Copying Content File Links
You can copy URL links to one or more content items on a server to the Windows clipboard and paste that information into an e-mail message, text editor, Office
document, or another business document. For files on an Oracle Content Server instance, three URL links are copied for each content item: to the web-viewable file,
the native file, and the content information page. For files on an Oracle Content Database server or other WebDAV server, only one link is copied: the URL of the file
on the server.
To copy content file links, select one or more files in the integration hierarchy, right-click, and click Copy Links on the context menu. The link information is copied
into the Windows clipboard, so that you can easily paste it into another file or application.
8.21 Enabling Metadata Prompting for Content Folders
When you drag and drop, copy and paste, or save a new file to a contribution folder on an Oracle Content Server 11gR1 instance, you may be asked to provide metadata
for that file before it is checked in to the server. This only happens if the contribution folder was specifically configured to enable metadata prompting. If metadata
prompting is not enabled for a folder, new files in that folder will always inherit the default metadata values for the folder as set through Oracle Content Servers web
interface. Please note that if a required field does not have a default value assigned to it, you will always be prompted to provide metadata, even if the Enable Metadata
Note: When you delete a shortcut, only the shortcut itself is deleted.
The folder or file on the content server that the shortcut pointed to remains intact.
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Prompts option is disabled. For more information on metadata inheritance, see Section 8.2.2, Content File Metadata.
Perform these steps to enable metadata prompting for a contribution folder on Oracle Content Server 11gR1:
1.
Open Windows Explorer or your e-mail application, and make sure the folders pane is visible see
Section 6.9, Showing or Hiding the Folders Pane .
2. Expand the Oracle Content Servers node. If you do not see this node in your
e-mail application, enable it first see Section 5.6, Showing or Hiding the Oracle
Content Servers Hierarchy .
3.
Click the Oracle Content Server instance which stores the folder for which you want to enable metadata prompting. If prompted, log in by entering your user
name and password for that server.
4.
Select the folder in the integration hierarchy for which you want to enable metadata prompting.
5.
The preview pane, if enabled, displays the content information of the selected folder. If the preview pane is not visible, you can enable it see
Section 6.8, Showing or Hiding the Preview Pane
. You can also right-click the folder and
choose Content Information to open the information page in a separate window. 6.
The information page shows the metadata that is assigned to the selected folder on the content server for example, its owner, metadata prompt setting, content type,
security group, and so on.
See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Content Server for more information on content information metadata.
7.
The bar at the top of the page shows the available actions for the content folder. To edit the metadata prompting setting, open the Folder Actions menu and then
choose Update.
The Hierarchy Folder Configuration page is displayed see Section A.8,
Hierarchical Folder Information Page .
8. Make sure that the Enable Metadata Prompts check box is selected.
9. When you are done, click Submit Update to save the changes. The changes take
effect immediately.
8.22 Working With Content Files in Workflows
