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My Oracle Support - New Look Metalink

Discussion in 'General' started by Sadik, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. Sadik

    Sadik Community Moderator Forum Guru

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    Oracle revamps Metalink with Flash

    Going about some routine problem today, when I accessed metalink, I was surprised by a pop-up which kept asking me to install Adobe Flash. Seems like Oracle has revamped Metalink with customised Dashboards and lots of eye-candy.

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    Oracle is still providing the option to choose either the new look or the classic metalink. However, the new UI took a lot longer to load and I could imagine my already impatient giving out grunts!

    However once you are at it, the UI is damn cool! I didn't really notice any benefits in functionality however the focus seems to be on attractive usability.

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    Guys, check it out and let me know if you find any functionality improvements.
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    Sadik, Sep 22, 2008
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  2. Julian

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    Yes, it is a little slow to load, but once loaded it works almost twice as fast. Besides some of the UI changes make searching and selecting etc really easy. I give my thumbs up!
     
    Julian, Sep 22, 2008
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    the idea of dashboards is really brilliant...

    P.S. for the uninitiated, we are talking about Metalink
     
    sameer, Sep 23, 2008
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    Honestly, i am quite irritated with this new Flash version, specially once one is searching for a problem the whole interface creates a lot of mess on screen, also browser's text search, I mean CTRL+F does not work inside the the dashboards!!! Can you imagine that!!!
     
    Anne, Oct 2, 2008
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  5. Arju

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    Oracle metalink was super slow. In terms of search engine and also in terms of loading page. After releasing new look it is super duper slow. As Anne pointed based on search feature it really irritates much. And another major things of new look according with classic one password entry need more time and password can't be saved now. Each page entry password explicitly need to type as well as cookie length is lower than previous, so need to type my password often.

    New look is really cumbersome.
     
    Arju, Oct 17, 2008
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  6. Sadik

    Sadik Community Moderator Forum Guru

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    I totally agree Arju, though there is the option of "remember me" while signing in, for some wierd reason when I am using the classic version it just keeps asking for password after every few times! don't know y!

    For example, yesterday i logged in classic metalink and after a few mins when i tried to open a link of a document from within metalink, it redirected me to the new version login page!!! absolutely irritating
     
    Sadik, Oct 18, 2008
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    The only positive new feature is the "PowerView." You can use it to hide irritating information about products you don't use. Apart from PowerView I prefer the old MetaLink (even though it's awful.)
     
    mikeyc7m, Nov 17, 2008
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    dud m fresher in ORACLE...wt exactly is dashboard? n wat functionality does it provide?
     
    vaibhav, Feb 26, 2009
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  9. Sadik

    Sadik Community Moderator Forum Guru

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    well dashboards are the pretty boxes you see in metalink which display all your info. You can move them ,resize them etc... kinda pretty on the eye :)
     
    Sadik, Feb 26, 2009
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