Insert Content Item Dialog

Insert Content Item Dialog - File Panel

The File panel of the Insert Content Item dialog enables you to select one or more files on an Oracle WebCenter Content Server instance and insert the contents of these files into the current Microsoft Office document at the current cursor position. You search for files using the standard search features of the content server (browsing or criteria-based query, if available). For each selected content item, you can choose the file rendition that should be inserted (native or web-viewable).

Note:

You cannot insert content items from Oracle Content Database servers or other WebDAV servers.

Please note that the file contents are inserted statically; that is, there is no dynamic link between the file contents in the Microsoft Office document and the source file on the content server. This means that the document is not updated automatically if the source file is updated on the content server, or vice versa.

Element	Description
Content Item	This field shows the content ID of the selected file on the content server whose contents will be inserted in the current Microsoft Office document. If you selected multiple files, then you can use the drop-down list to review each selected item.
Browse	Click this button to open the Select Content Dialog - Search Panel, where you can select one or more files on an Oracle WebCenter Content Server instance. You search for files using the standard search features on the content server (browsing or criteria-based query, if available). When browsing to files on the content server, you will, by default, only see files of formats that are appropriate for the current Microsoft Office application (for example, .doc, .docx, .dot, and .txt files when you are in Microsoft Word). You may choose to select a file of a different format (say, a .pdf or .xls file while in Microsoft Word), but that may result in the binary file data being inserted as text. Therefore, make sure that you select files whose formats are compatible with the current Microsoft Office application (for example, native word-processing or text files when you are in Microsoft Word).
Insert	This lists all available file targets whose content can be inserted in the current Microsoft Office document: Native Rendition: This inserts the contents of the native file; that is, the original file as created in its associated application (for example, .doc or .docx files for Microsoft Word documents). Web-Viewable Rendition: This inserts the contents of a version of the original file that can be viewed in a web browser. Contributors may manually specify a file as the web-viewable rendition when checking a content item in to the content server, but web-viewable renditions are often created automatically on the content server and checked in along with the native file (for example, a generated PDF version). If there is no web-viewable rendition, the native rendition is inserted. Other renditions: The list shows all custom renditions that may also be available on an Oracle WebCenter Content Server instance. The default is the alternate file, but server administrators may configure the content server to include other custom renditions of content items in this list. The file formats that can be successfully inserted into your Microsoft Office document depend on the configuration of your computer and Microsoft Office (installed conversion filters and the like). Desktop's insertion features work exactly the same as the native insertion features of the Microsoft Office application you are working in (from the Insert menu). The only difference is that you can insert files from a content server rather than your local computer. See your Microsoft Office application help for more information on inserting files into your Microsoft Office document. Files that are compatible with the application can generally be inserted successfully (for example, .doc or .txt into Word, and .xls or .csv into Excel), but other files may not. If you insert a non-compatible file (for example, a JPEG file into a Word document), it will be included as a series of characters rendered from the binary file. If you want to insert an image, make sure that you go to the Image panel (see Insert Content Item Dialog - Image Panel) and select an image file there.
Help	Click this button to display context-sensitive help information for this dialog.
OK	Click this button to close the dialog and insert the contents of the selected content item into the current Microsoft Office document.
Cancel	Click this button to close the dialog without doing anything.