Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Understanding Oracle Portal

1 What Is Oracle Portal?

• 1.1 What Is a Portal?
• 1.2 What Is Content?
  • 1.2.1 Keeping Up with Changes
  • 1.2.2 Controlling Content Handling
• 1.3 Finding Content
• 1.4 Personalizing Your Portal

2 Interacting with Your Portal

• 2.1 Viewing Pages
  • 2.1.1 Logging in to Oracle Portal
  • 2.1.2 Displaying a Page
    • 2.1.2.1 Refreshing a Page
    • 2.1.2.2 Refreshing a Portlet on a Page
    • 2.1.2.3 Viewing New Items on a Page
  • 2.1.3 Understanding Page and Item URLs
  • 2.1.4 Choosing Your Home Page
    • 2.1.4.1 Changing Your Home Page
    • 2.1.4.2 Changing Your Mobile Home Page
  • 2.1.5 Changing Your Password
  • 2.1.6 Choosing a Default Page Style
  • 2.1.7 Viewing Translated Content
• 2.2 Finding Information in Your Portal
  • 2.2.1 Searching For Content
    • 2.2.1.1 Performing a Basic Search
    • 2.2.1.2 Performing an Advanced Search
  • 2.2.2 Interpreting Search Results
  • 2.2.3 Saving and Reusing Searches
    • 2.2.3.1 Saving a Search
    • 2.2.3.2 Adding a List of Saved Searches to a Page
    • 2.2.3.3 Reusing a Saved Search
• 2.3 Personalizing Pages
  • 2.3.1 Adding a Portlet to a Page
  • 2.3.2 Rearranging Portlets in a Page Region
  • 2.3.3 Moving Portlets to Different Regions/Tabs
  • 2.3.4 Hiding a Portlet on a Page
  • 2.3.5 Removing a Portlet from a Page
  • 2.3.6 Rearranging the Order of Tabs in a Region
  • 2.3.7 Hiding a Tab on a Page
  • 2.3.8 Applying a New Style to a Page
  • 2.3.9 Personalizing a Page Parameter
  • 2.3.10 Removing Your Page Personalizations
• 2.4 Subscribing to a Page or Item
  • 2.4.1 Subscribing to a Page
  • 2.4.2 Subscribing to an Item
  • 2.4.3 Setting Up the My Notifications Portlet to Show Your Subscriptions
• 2.5 Accessing Oracle Portal Page Editing Tools
  • 2.5.1 Accessing Page Editing Tools
  • 2.5.2 Accessing Page Portlet Editing Tools
• 2.6 Adding Content to a Page
  • 2.6.1 Adding Content
    • 2.6.1.1 Adding Items with a Wizard
    • 2.6.1.2 Adding Items from Your Desktop
  • 2.6.2 Performing Actions on Items
• 2.7 Getting Your Content Approved
  • 2.7.1 Submitting Content for Approval
    • 2.7.1.1 Using the Pending Items Preview Mode
    • 2.7.1.2 Personalizing the My Approval Status Portlet
  • 2.7.2 Approving or Rejecting Content
    • 2.7.2.1 Setting Up the My Notifications Portlet to Show the Status of Oracle Portal Approvals
    • 2.7.2.2 Approving or Rejecting an Item
• 2.8 Troubleshooting

Part II Planning Your Portal

3 Planning Your Portal

• 3.1 Getting Up to Speed
  • 3.1.1 Approaching Your Portal
  • 3.1.2 Knowing Your Audience
  • 3.1.3 Key Concepts and Terms
• 3.2 Making Key Decisions
  • 3.2.1 Understanding the Planning Process
  • 3.2.2 Using Page Groups Effectively
  • 3.2.3 Configuring a Page Group for Content Management
  • 3.2.4 Deciding What Content To Publish

4 Working with Page Groups

• 4.1 Creating a Page Group
• 4.2 Deleting a Page Group
• 4.3 Delegating Page Group Responsibilities
  • 4.3.1 Assigning Page Group Privileges
    • 4.3.1.1 Granting Access to a Page Group
    • 4.3.1.2 Changing Access to a Page Group
  • 4.3.2 Controlling Who Can Apply a Different Style to a Page
  • 4.3.3 Specifying a Page Group Contact
    • 4.3.3.1 Specifying the Page Group Contact E-mail Address
    • 4.3.3.2 Adding the Page Group Contact E-Mail Address to a Page
• 4.4 Configuring a Page Group's Page Edit Modes
• 4.5 Setting Page Defaults for the Pages in a Page Group
  • 4.5.1 Specifying the Doctype for Pages
  • 4.5.2 Specifying Inheritance Rules for Newly Created Pages
  • 4.5.3 Choosing a Default Style for a Page Group
  • 4.5.4 Choosing a Default Navigation Page for a Page Group
  • 4.5.5 Choosing a Default Template or Page Skin for a Page Group
  • 4.5.6 Specifying Tab Navigation Behavior for a Page Group
  • 4.5.7 Defining URL Rewrite Rules for a Page Group
  • 4.5.8 Enabling and Disabling Parameters and Events for a Page Group
  • 4.5.9 Enabling JavaServer Page Access to a Page Group
    • 4.5.9.1 Enabling JSP Access
    • 4.5.9.2 Publishing a Portlet Externally
    • 4.5.9.3 Additional JSP Information
• 4.6 Sharing Objects Across Page Groups
  • 4.6.1 Understanding the Shared Objects Page Group
  • 4.6.2 Moving Objects to the Shared Objects Page Group
• 4.7 Troubleshooting Page Groups

5 Preparing to Add Content

• 5.1 Things You Can Do with Content
• 5.2 Working with Attributes, Item Types, and Page Types
  • 5.2.1 Working with Attributes
    • 5.2.1.1 Creating an Attribute
    • 5.2.1.2 Editing an Attribute
    • 5.2.1.3 Deleting an Attribute
  • 5.2.2 Working With Item Types
    • 5.2.2.1 Creating an Item Type
    • 5.2.2.2 Editing an Item Type
    • 5.2.2.3 Making an Item Type Available to a Page Group
    • 5.2.2.4 Deleting an Item Type
  • 5.2.3 Working with Page Types
    • 5.2.3.1 Creating a Page Type
    • 5.2.3.2 Editing a Page Type
    • 5.2.3.3 Making a Page Type Available to a Page Group
    • 5.2.3.4 Deleting a Page Type
• 5.3 Setting Up Content Classification
  • 5.3.1 Working with Categories
    • 5.3.1.1 Creating a Category
    • 5.3.1.2 Editing a Category
    • 5.3.1.3 Making a Category Available to a Page Group
    • 5.3.1.4 Moving a Category to the Shared Objects Page Group
    • 5.3.1.5 Deleting a Category
  • 5.3.2 Working with Perspectives
    • 5.3.2.1 Creating a Perspective
    • 5.3.2.2 Editing a Perspective
    • 5.3.2.3 Making a Perspective Available to a Page Group
    • 5.3.2.4 Moving a Perspective to the Shared Objects Page Group
    • 5.3.2.5 Deleting a Perspective
• 5.4 Setting Up Approvals
  • 5.4.1 Enabling Oracle BPEL Approval Processes
  • 5.4.2 Enabling Approvals and Notifications for a Page Group
    • 5.4.2.1 Enabling Page Managers to Specify Their Own Approval Processes
  • 5.4.3 Setting Up an Approval Process for a Page Group
    • 5.4.3.1 Setting Up an Oracle Portal Approval Process for a Page Group
    • 5.4.3.2 Specifying an Oracle BPEL Workflow Process for a Page Group
  • 5.4.4 Monitoring Pending Approvals
  • 5.4.5 Enabling Draft Items
  • 5.4.6 Setting Up Expiry Notifications for a Page Group
    • 5.4.6.1 Setting Up Expiry Notifications
    • 5.4.6.2 Displaying Expiry Notifications on a Page
• 5.5 Managing Item Behavior at the Page Group Level
  • 5.5.1 Changing the Page Group Quota
  • 5.5.2 Setting the Item Versioning Level for a Page Group
  • 5.5.3 Managing Unpublished Items
    • 5.5.3.1 Displaying Unpublished Items
    • 5.5.3.2 Retaining Deleted Items
    • 5.5.3.3 Permanently Removing Expired and Deleted Items
  • 5.5.4 Displaying the New and Updated Icons
  • 5.5.5 Disabling the Rich Text Editor
• 5.6 Troubleshooting Content Management

Part III Creating Pages

6 Creating Pages

• 6.1 Understanding Pages in Oracle Portal
  • 6.1.1 Pages and Page Types in Oracle Portal
  • 6.1.2 When To Use Each Page Type
• 6.2 Creating a Standard Page
• 6.3 Creating a Sub-Page
• 6.4 Creating a URL Page
• 6.5 Creating a PL/SQL Page
• 6.6 Creating a JavaServer Page (JSP)
  • 6.6.1 Creating a JSP Through the Page Creation Wizard
  • 6.6.2 Creating a JSP By Copying Another Page
• 6.7 Creating a Mobile Page
• 6.8 Creating a Navigation Page
• 6.9 Editing Page Properties
• 6.10 Troubleshooting Page Creation

7 Defining and Displaying Page Information

• 7.1 Enabling Item Versioning for Page Groups, Pages, and Templates
• 7.2 Listing the Pages You Manage
• 7.3 Viewing Information About Pages and Page Content
  • 7.3.1 Viewing Page Property Sheets
  • 7.3.2 Viewing Portlet Property Sheets
  • 7.3.3 Viewing Item Property Sheets
• 7.4 Classifying a Page
  • 7.4.1 Assigning a Category to a Page
  • 7.4.2 Assigning Perspectives to a Page
• 7.5 Adding Keywords to a Page
• 7.6 Specifying a Page Contact
• 7.7 Specifying a Representative Image for a Page
• 7.8 Selecting Default Regions for Content Uploads
  • 7.8.1 Selecting Default Regions for a Page
  • 7.8.2 Selecting a Default Region for a Portal Template
• 7.9 Defining the Display of Sub-Page Links
• 7.10 Troubleshooting Page Information Issues

8 Performing Actions on Pages

• 8.1 Locating Pages in Oracle Portal
  • 8.1.1 Locating a Page Through the Page Groups Portlet
  • 8.1.2 Locating a Page Through the Portal Navigator
• 8.2 Copying a Page
• 8.3 Moving a Page
• 8.4 Deleting a Page
• 8.5 Placing One Page Onto Another
  • 8.5.1 Publishing a Page as a Portlet
  • 8.5.2 Displaying a Page Through the Page Portlet
  • 8.5.3 Selecting Page Portlet Regions for Display
• 8.6 Performing Actions on Multiple Pages Simultaneously
  • 8.6.1 Performing Bulk Actions Through List View
  • 8.6.2 Performing Bulk Actions Through the Portal Navigator
• 8.7 Troubleshooting Actions on Pages

9 Working with Pages Designed for Mobile Devices

• 9.1 Mobile Support in Oracle Portal
• 9.2 Creating a Mobile Page
• 9.3 Adding Content to a Mobile Page
• 9.4 Personalizing Mobile Pages
• 9.5 Viewing Standard Pages on Mobile Devices
• 9.6 Adding MobileXML to Oracle Portal Pages
• 9.7 Viewing Oracle Portal Pages from a Mobile Device
  • 9.7.1 Step 1 Acquire a mobile device
  • 9.7.2 Step 2 Configure mobile access for Oracle Portal
  • 9.7.3 Step 3 Make mobile content available on Oracle Portal pages
  • 9.7.4 Step 4 Configure a home page for mobile users
  • 9.7.5 Step 5 Contact Oracle Portal from a mobile device
• 9.8 Using the OracleAS Wireless Debugger/Simulator
• 9.9 Troubleshooting Mobile Pages

Part IV Designing the Layout and Appearance of Pages

10 Working with Layouts

• 10.1 Using Regions to Create a Page Layout
  • 10.1.1 Adding a Region to a Page
  • 10.1.2 Deleting a Region from a Page
• 10.2 Configuring Region Display Options
  • 10.2.1 Changing a Region Name
  • 10.2.2 Changing a Region Type
  • 10.2.3 Changing the Height and Width of a Region
  • 10.2.4 Displaying or Hiding Banners
  • 10.2.5 Changing the Number of Columns and Rows in a Region
  • 10.2.6 Changing the Alignment of Items
  • 10.2.7 Setting Sub-Page Links Region Properties
    • 10.2.7.1 Specifying Whether One or Two Sub-Page Link Levels Display
    • 10.2.7.2 Specifying the Attributes to Display with Sub-Page Links
    • 10.2.7.3 Selecting a Navigation Image
  • 10.2.8 Setting a Uniform Height and Width for Item Icons
  • 10.2.9 Changing the Attributes Displayed in a Region
  • 10.2.10 Grouping Items in a Region
  • 10.2.11 Defining a Sort Order for Items
  • 10.2.12 Displaying or Hiding Portlet Headers and Borders
  • 10.2.13 Showing or Hiding Portlet Header Links
  • 10.2.14 Changing Portlet and Item Spacing
• 10.3 Working with Tabs
  • 10.3.1 Adding a Tab to a Page
  • 10.3.2 Naming a Tab
  • 10.3.3 Rearranging the Order of Tabs in a Region
  • 10.3.4 Hiding/Showing Tabs
    • 10.3.4.1 Hiding and Showing a Tab
    • 10.3.4.2 Hiding and Showing Multiple Tabs at Once
  • 10.3.5 Changing the Alignment of Tabs
  • 10.3.6 Changing a Tab Image
  • 10.3.7 Adding a Rollover Effect to Tabs
  • 10.3.8 Deleting Tabs
    • 10.3.8.1 Deleting One Tab
    • 10.3.8.2 Deleting Multiple Tabs Simultaneously
• 10.4 Troubleshooting Regions and Tabs

11 Working with Colors and Fonts

• 11.1 Understanding Style Basics
• 11.2 Creating a Style
• 11.3 Style Element Properties
  • 11.3.1 Items
  • 11.3.2 Tabs
  • 11.3.3 Portlets
  • 11.3.4 Common
• 11.4 Defining Styles for Items
• 11.5 Defining Styles for Portlets
  • 11.5.1 Changing the Portlet Body Color
  • 11.5.2 Changing Portlet Header Colors, Fonts, and Edges
  • 11.5.3 Changing Portlet Heading and Text Colors and Fonts
  • 11.5.4 Controlling Styles for Page Portlets and Navigation Pages
• 11.6 Defining Styles for Tabs
• 11.7 Defining Common Style Elements
  • 11.7.1 Changing the Page or Region Background
  • 11.7.2 Designing Styles for Banners
    • 11.7.2.1 Changing Banner Thickness and Text Alignment
    • 11.7.2.2 Changing Banner Colors and Fonts
• 11.8 Applying a Style
  • 11.8.1 Applying a Style to a Page
    • 11.8.1.1 Applying a Style by Default
    • 11.8.1.2 Applying a Style Explicitly
  • 11.8.2 Applying a Style to a Region
• 11.9 Making a Style Available to Other Users
  • 11.9.1 Publishing a Style to Other Users
  • 11.9.2 Sharing a Style Across Page Groups
• 11.10 Editing a Style
• 11.11 Deleting a Style
• 11.12 Using Portal Style Element Classes in HTML Templates and CSSs
• 11.13 Troubleshooting Styles

12 Providing a Standard Look and Feel

• 12.1 Understanding Templates in Oracle Portal
  • 12.1.1 What Are Portal Templates?
    • 12.1.1.1 Portal Template Uses and Benefits
    • 12.1.1.2 Portal Templates for Pages
    • 12.1.1.3 Portal Templates for Items
  • 12.1.2 What Are HTML Templates?
    • 12.1.2.1 HTML Template Uses and Benefits
    • 12.1.2.2 HTML Page Skins
    • 12.1.2.3 HTML Content Layouts
  • 12.1.3 Comparing Template Types
• 12.2 Working with Portal Templates for Pages and Items
  • 12.2.1 Using Portal Templates with Pages
    • 12.2.1.1 Creating a Portal Template for Pages
    • 12.2.1.2 Applying Portal Templates for Pages
    • 12.2.1.3 Editing Portal Templates for Pages
    • 12.2.1.4 Detaching a Portal Template from a Page
  • 12.2.2 Using Portal Templates with Items
    • 12.2.2.1 Creating Portal Templates for Items
    • 12.2.2.2 Applying Portal Templates for Items
    • 12.2.2.3 Calling a Portal Template for Items at Runtime
    • 12.2.2.4 Editing Portal Templates for Items
    • 12.2.2.5 Detaching a Portal Template for Items
  • 12.2.3 Copying a Portal Template
  • 12.2.4 Editing Portal Template Properties
• 12.3 Working with HTML Templates
  • 12.3.1 Using HTML to Define a Page Border
    • 12.3.1.1 Creating an HTML Page Skin
    • 12.3.1.2 Applying an HTML Page Skin
    • 12.3.1.3 Editing an HTML Page Skin
    • 12.3.1.4 Detaching an HTML Page Skin from a Page
  • 12.3.2 Using HTML to Define the Layout and Appearance of Region Content
    • 12.3.2.1 Creating an HTML Content Layout
    • 12.3.2.2 Applying an HTML Content Layout
    • 12.3.2.3 Editing an HTML Content Layout
    • 12.3.2.4 Detaching an HTML Content Layout Template from a Region
  • 12.3.3 Using HTML to Create Templates for Database Portlets
    • 12.3.3.1 Creating an Unstructured User Interface Template
    • 12.3.3.2 Applying an Unstructured User Interface Template
    • 12.3.3.3 Editing an Unstructured User Interface Template
    • 12.3.3.4 Deleting an Unstructured User Interface Template
  • 12.3.4 Copying HTML Templates
    • 12.3.4.1 Copying an HTML Page Skin or Content Layout Template
    • 12.3.4.2 Copying an Unstructured User Interface Template
  • 12.3.5 Sharing an HTML Template Across Page Groups
• 12.4 Deleting Templates from Oracle Portal
  • 12.4.1 Deleting a Portal Template
  • 12.4.2 Deleting an HTML Template
• 12.5 Troubleshooting Templates

13 Designing Your Portal's Navigation

• 13.1 Understanding Navigation in Oracle Portal
  • 13.1.1 Navigation Pages
  • 13.1.2 Smart Links, Breadcrumbs, Search Boxes, and Object Map Links
  • 13.1.3 Custom Searches
• 13.2 Creating or Copying a Navigation Page
• 13.3 Publishing a Navigation Page as a Portlet
• 13.4 Adding a Navigation Page to a Page
• 13.5 Deleting a Navigation Page
• 13.6 Populating a Navigation Page with Navigation Elements
  • 13.6.1 Adding a Basic Search Box Item
  • 13.6.2 Adding a List of Objects Item
  • 13.6.3 Adding a Login/Logout Link Item
  • 13.6.4 Adding an Object Map Link Item
  • 13.6.5 Adding a Page Path Item (Breadcrumbs)
  • 13.6.6 Adding a Portal Smart Link Item
  • 13.6.7 Adding a Portal Smart Text Item
  • 13.6.8 Displaying Links to Sub-Pages
• 13.7 Troubleshooting Navigation Pages

Part V Working with Content

14 Working with Items

• 14.1 Understanding Items
• 14.2 Adding Items to a Page
  • 14.2.1 Adding a File Item
  • 14.2.2 Adding Text to a Page
    • 14.2.2.1 Adding a Text Item
    • 14.2.2.2 The Rich Text Editor
  • 14.2.3 Adding a URL Link to a Page
  • 14.2.4 Adding a Simple Item Link to a Page
  • 14.2.5 Adding Dynamic Data (PL/SQL Item)
  • 14.2.6 Specifying How Item URLs Are Formed
  • 14.2.7 Tricks for Adding and Editing Items
    • 14.2.7.1 Creating a Shortcut to Adding Content
    • 14.2.7.2 Creating a Shortcut to Editing Content
• 14.3 Uploading Multiple Files Simultaneously
  • 14.3.1 Preparing Zip Files for Upload
  • 14.3.2 Adding a Zip File as a File
  • 14.3.3 Adding a Zip File as a Zip File
  • 14.3.4 Extracting a Zip File Within Oracle Portal
• 14.4 Editing Items
  • 14.4.1 Editing an Item
  • 14.4.2 Classifying the Content of an Item
    • 14.4.2.1 Changing the Category of an Item
    • 14.4.2.2 Changing the Perspectives of an Item
    • 14.4.2.3 Changing the Search Keywords for an Item
  • 14.4.3 Setting a Publish Date for an Item
  • 14.4.4 Enabling Item Check Out
• 14.5 Checking Items Out and In
  • 14.5.1 Checking an Item Out
  • 14.5.2 Checking an Item In
• 14.6 Hiding/Showing an Item
• 14.7 Copying Items
  • 14.7.1 Copying a Single Item
  • 14.7.2 Copying Multiple Items
• 14.8 Moving Items
  • 14.8.1 Moving a Single Item
  • 14.8.2 Moving Multiple Items
• 14.9 Rearranging the Order of Items
  • 14.9.1 Rearranging the Order of Ungrouped Items
  • 14.9.2 Rearranging the Order of Grouped Items
• 14.10 Deleting Items and Restoring Deleted Items
  • 14.10.1 Deleting a Single Item
  • 14.10.2 Deleting Multiple Items
  • 14.10.3 Restoring a Deleted Items
    • 14.10.3.1 Restoring One Deleted Item
    • 14.10.3.2 Restoring Multiple Deleted Items
• 14.11 Expiring Items
  • 14.11.1 Setting the Expiration Details for an Item
  • 14.11.2 Expiring a Single Item
  • 14.11.3 Expiring Multiple Items Instantly
  • 14.11.4 Restoring an Expired Item
• 14.12 Using Item Version Control
  • 14.12.1 Changing Version Control Settings for an Item
  • 14.12.2 Changing the Active Current Version of an Item
  • 14.12.3 Using Your Own Version Numbering Scheme
  • 14.12.4 Images and Item Versioning
• 14.13 Troubleshooting Item Issues

15 Working with Portlets

• 15.1 Adding a Portlet to a Page
• 15.2 Arranging Portlets in a Region
• 15.3 Editing and Personalizing Portlets
  • 15.3.1 Comparing Edit Defaults, Edit Instance, and Personalize Portlet
  • 15.3.2 Editing a Portlet's Defaults
  • 15.3.3 Editing a Portlet Instance
  • 15.3.4 Personalizing a Portlet
• 15.4 Hiding and Showing Portlets
  • 15.4.1 Hiding a Single Portlet
  • 15.4.2 Hiding Multiple Portlets Simultaneously
• 15.5 Deleting Portlets
  • 15.5.1 Deleting One Portlet
  • 15.5.2 Deleting Multiple Portlets Simultaneously
• 15.6 Moving Portlets to Another Region
  • 15.6.1 Moving a Single Portlet
  • 15.6.2 Moving Multiple Portlets Simultaneously
• 15.7 Sharing a Portlet Across Multiple Pages
  • 15.7.1 Sharing One Portlet
  • 15.7.2 Sharing Multiple Portlets
  • 15.7.3 Adding a Shared Portlet Instance to a Page
• 15.8 Troubleshooting Portlet Issues

16 Working with Search Portlets

• 16.1 Understanding Search Options in Oracle Portal
• 16.2 Working with Basic and Advanced Search Portlets
• 16.3 Working with the Custom Search Portlet
  • 16.3.1 Placing a Custom Search Portlet on a Page
  • 16.3.2 Setting Custom Search Options
    • 16.3.2.1 Custom Search - Portlet Type Tab
    • 16.3.2.2 Custom Search - What to Search Tab
    • 16.3.2.3 Custom Search - Search Criteria Tab
    • 16.3.2.4 Custom Search - Search Form Tab
    • 16.3.2.5 Custom Search - Results Display Tab
  • 16.3.3 The Custom Search Form
    • 16.3.3.1 Understanding the Default Custom Search Form
    • 16.3.3.2 Editing the Default Custom Search Form
  • 16.3.4 The Custom Search Results Page
    • 16.3.4.1 Understanding the Default Search Results Page
    • 16.3.4.2 Using Your Own Search Results Page
    • 16.3.4.3 Customizing Search Results
    • 16.3.4.4 Using Custom Item Types to Customize Search Results
  • 16.3.5 Creating a Portlet that Publishes Search Results Automatically
  • 16.3.6 Restricting Portal Content from a Custom Search
  • 16.3.7 Setting Search Criteria for a Custom Search Portlet
  • 16.3.8 Defining Separate Portlets for Search Forms and Search Results
• 16.4 Troubleshooting Search Functionality

17 Protecting Your Content

• 17.1 Page and Object Security in Oracle Portal
• 17.2 Delegating the Task of Assigning Privileges
• 17.3 Granting Global Privileges
  • 17.3.1 Granting Global Privileges to a User
  • 17.3.2 Granting Global Privileges to a Group
• 17.4 Securing Page Groups
• 17.5 Securing Pages
  • 17.5.1 Making a Page Available to Everyone
  • 17.5.2 Granting Privileges on a Page
  • 17.5.3 Caching and Security
• 17.6 Securing Tabs
• 17.7 Securing Portlets
  • 17.7.1 Granting Global Privileges on Portlets
    • 17.7.1.1 Portlet-Related Global Privileges on All Portlets
    • 17.7.1.2 Portlet-Related Global Privileges on All Providers
    • 17.7.1.3 Portlet-Related Global Privileges on All Portal DB Providers
  • 17.7.2 Granting Personalization Privileges on Portlets
• 17.8 Locking Regions
  • 17.8.1 Locking a Page Region
  • 17.8.2 Locking a Portal Template Region
• 17.9 Securing Items
  • 17.9.1 Using Item Level Security
    • 17.9.1.1 Understanding Item Level Security
    • 17.9.1.2 Enabling Item Level Security on a Page
    • 17.9.1.3 Enabling Item Level Security on a Tab
    • 17.9.1.4 Enabling Item Level Security on a Portal Template
    • 17.9.1.5 Changing Item Access
  • 17.9.2 Using Approvals to Pre-Screen Items
  • 17.9.3 Item URL Security
• 17.10 Granting Privileges on Styles
• 17.11 Granting Privileges on Portal Templates
  • 17.11.1 Granting Access to Portal Templates for Pages
  • 17.11.2 Granting Access to Portal Templates for Items
  • 17.11.3 Template-Related Privileges
• 17.12 Granting Content Attribution Privileges
• 17.13 Troubleshooting Page and Object Security Issues

Part VI Advanced Page Design Features

18 Using WebDAV Clients with Oracle Portal

• 18.1 When to Use Which WebDAV Client with Oracle Portal
• 18.2 Setting Up Oracle Portal for WebDAV
  • 18.2.1 Specifying Default Item Types for Zip and WebDAV Uploads
  • 18.2.2 Selecting a Target Region for Content Added Through WebDAV
• 18.3 Setting Up Your WebDAV Client
• 18.4 General Rules for Using a WebDAV Client
  • 18.4.1 Listing Portal Content in a WebDAV Client
  • 18.4.2 Viewing Content Through a WebDAV Client
  • 18.4.3 Moving, Copying, and Editing Content Through WebDAV
  • 18.4.4 How WebDAV Handles Item Types and Attributes
  • 18.4.5 Versioning Support in WebDAV
  • 18.4.6 Approvals and Drafts Support in WebDAV
  • 18.4.7 Deleting Content Through WebDAV
  • 18.4.8 Checking Content Out and In through WebDAV
  • 18.4.9 Creating Oracle Portal Pages and Sub-Pages Through WebDAV
  • 18.4.10 Viewing WebDAV Errors
  • 18.4.11 Authentication and WebDAV
• 18.5 Using Oracle Drive as a WebDAV Client
  • 18.5.1 Installing Oracle Drive
  • 18.5.2 Configuring Oracle Drive to Work with Oracle Portal
  • 18.5.3 Oracle Portal Right-Click Menu Options
• 18.6 Using Web Folders as a WebDAV Client
  • 18.6.1 Web Folders and Network Places
    • 18.6.1.1 Setting up a Web Folder or a Network Place
    • 18.6.1.2 Additional Notes on Web Folders and Network Places
  • 18.6.2 Using Web Folders to Work with Portal Content
  • 18.6.3 Error Messages in Web Folders
• 18.7 Using Cadaver as a WebDAV Client
• 18.8 Using Sitecopy as a WebDAV Client
• 18.9 Using Dreamweaver as a WebDAV Client
• 18.10 Using Microsoft Office as a WebDAV Client
• 18.11 Example: Using Web Folders to Add Content to a Portal Page
• 18.12 Example: Using Microsoft Office 2000 to Edit Portal Page Content
• 18.13 Example: Using Dreamweaver to Edit Portal Page Content
• 18.14 Troubleshooting WebDAV Issues

19 Translating Portal Content

• 19.1 Understanding Translation in Oracle Portal
  • 19.1.1 Selecting a Session Language
  • 19.1.2 Displaying a Translation
  • 19.1.3 Translation and Attributes
    • 19.1.3.1 Translatable Attributes
    • 19.1.3.2 Non-Translatable Attributes
    • 19.1.3.3 Translating Attributes
• 19.2 Creating a Translatable Page Group
  • 19.2.1 Planning for Translations
    • 19.2.1.1 Installing Languages
    • 19.2.1.2 Choosing a Default Language
    • 19.2.1.3 What Must Be Translated?
    • 19.2.1.4 Translation, Names, and Display Names
    • 19.2.1.5 Adding Content in a Language Other than the Default Language
    • 19.2.1.6 Translations and the Shared Objects Page Group
  • 19.2.2 Adding Translation Languages to a Page Group
  • 19.2.3 Making a Translation Available to All Users
  • 19.2.4 Deleting a Page Group Translation
• 19.3 Creating Translatable Content
  • 19.3.1 Adding a Translated Item
  • 19.3.2 Translations and Item Versioning
  • 19.3.3 Copying Translatable Attributes
  • 19.3.4 Translations and Approvals
  • 19.3.5 Translations and Object Deletion
• 19.4 Troubleshooting Translations

20 Setting Up an Approval Chain

• 20.1 Setting Up an Approval Process for a Page
  • 20.1.1 Setting Up an Oracle Portal Approval Process for a Page
  • 20.1.2 Specifying an Oracle BPEL Approval Process for a Page
• 20.2 Enabling Users to Subscribe to a Page or Item
• 20.3 Troubleshooting Approval and Notifications

21 Improving Page Performance

• 21.1 Page Caching
  • 21.1.1 Changing How a Page Is Cached
  • 21.1.2 Page Caching Options
  • 21.1.3 Clearing the Cache for a Page
• 21.2 Page Assembly Timeout
• 21.3 Portlet Caching
  • 21.3.1 Changing How a Portlet Is Cached
  • 21.3.2 Portlet Caching Options
  • 21.3.3 Portlet Caching Level Options
• 21.4 Template Caching
  • 21.4.1 Changing How a Portal Template Is Cached
  • 21.4.2 Portal Template Caching Options
  • 21.4.3 Clearing the Cache for a Portal Template
• 21.5 Troubleshooting Page Performance

22 Using Parameters and Events

• 22.1 Understanding Parameters
  • 22.1.1 Understanding Page Parameters
    • 22.1.1.1 Page Parameters in URL Pages
  • 22.1.2 Understanding Portlet Parameters
• 22.2 Understanding Events
• 22.3 Adding a Parameter to a Page or Portal Template
• 22.4 Passing Parameter Values to Portlets
• 22.5 Setting Up Events on a Page
• 22.6 Assigning Parameter Values to Items Displayed on a Portal Template
  • 22.6.1 Defining Parameter Values for Items Displayed on a Portal Template
    • 22.6.1.1 Overriding Parameter Values for an Item Displayed on a Portal Template
• 22.7 Troubleshooting Parameters and Events

Part VII Appendixes

A Oracle Portal Seeded Objects

• A.1 Built-in Page Groups
• A.2 Base Attributes
  • A.2.1 Base Content Attributes
  • A.2.2 Base Display Attributes
  • A.2.3 Base Search Result Display Attributes
  • A.2.4 Base Searchable Attributes
• A.3 Base Page Types
• A.4 Base Item Types
• A.5 Built-in Portlets
  • A.5.1 Working with the Favorites Portlet
    • A.5.1.1 Personalizing the Favorites Portlet
    • A.5.1.2 Adding Default Favorites and Favorite Groups to the Favorites Portlet
  • A.5.2 Working with the Recent Objects Portlet
    • A.5.2.1 Personalize the Recent Objects Portlet
  • A.5.3 Working with the External Applications Portlet
    • A.5.3.1 Personalizing the External Applications Portlet
  • A.5.4 Working with the Login Portlet
    • A.5.4.1 Setting Up the Login Portlet
  • A.5.5 Working with the Set Language Portlet
    • A.5.5.1 Setting Up the Set Language Portlet
  • A.5.6 Working with the Survey Portlets
    • A.5.6.1 Creating a Survey
    • A.5.6.2 Creating a Poll
    • A.5.6.3 Creating a Test
    • A.5.6.4 Adding a Survey, Poll, or Test to a Page

B Page Group Object Privileges

• B.1 Privileges Required for Page Group Related Tasks
• B.2 Page Group Privileges
• B.3 Page and Tab Privileges
• B.4 Item Privileges

C Formation of URLs in Oracle Portal

• C.1 Path-Based URLs
  • C.1.1 Forming Path-Based URLs
  • C.1.2 Examples of Path-Based URLs
• C.2 Durable URLs
  • C.2.1 Forming Durable URLs
  • C.2.2 Examples of Durable URLs
• C.3 Additional Notes on Path-Based and Durable URLs
  • C.3.1 Additional Notes on the Formation of URLs in Oracle Portal
  • C.3.2 How Name, Display Name, and File Name Affect a Path-Based URL
    • C.3.2.1 File-Based Item Type Has an Exposed Name Attribute
    • C.3.2.2 File-Based Item Type Has a Hidden Name Attribute
    • C.3.2.3 File-Based Item Type Has No Name Attribute
  • C.3.3 The Language Parameter in Path-Based and Durable URLs

D Object Naming Rules in Oracle Portal

E Substitution Tags for HTML and Unstructured UI Templates

• E.1 Substitution Tags for HTML Page Skins
• E.2 Style Element Classes Used with Oracle Portal Styles
  • E.2.1 Style Element Classes Associated with Common Elements
  • E.2.2 Style Element Classes Associated with Tabs
  • E.2.3 Style Element Classes Associated with Items
  • E.2.4 Style Element Classes Associated with Portlets
• E.3 Substitution Tags for HTML Content Layouts
• E.4 Database Portlet Substitution Tags

F Customizing the Style of Design-Time Dialogs

Glossary

Index