OracleAS Portal 10g: Build Corporate Portals

An enterprise portal is a corporate gateway to information access and management. Oracle Application Server Portal 10g Release 2 (10.1.4) represents a major step forward in the evolution of Oracle Portal. This Oracle Fusion Middleware product incorporates a portal building framework with self-service publishing features to enable you to create and manage information accessed within your portal. In this course, you use the rich, declarative environment of OracleAS Portal to build your portal. You learn how to create and maintain a document library, build portal pages to display content, and publish and search content using OracleAS Portal. You also learn how to integrate and publish Web applications and disparate data on a portal page.

course content details

	Introduction to OracleAS Portal

	Enterprise Portals
	Challenges Faced by the Page Designer and Content Contributor
	What is OracleAS Portal?
	Extensible Portal Framework
	OracleAS Portal Solution

	Adding Content to Portal

	What is an Item?
	Identifying Item Types
	Adding Items to the Document Library
	Managing Items
	Accessing the Document Library Using WebDAV
	Managing Content by Using Web Folders

	Classifying Portal Content

	What is Content Metadata?
	Classifying Content in OracleAS Portal
	Designing Your Taxonomy
	Classifying Content Using Categories
	Organizing Content Using Perspectives
	Creating, Viewing, Editing and Managing Perspectives

	Implementing Custom Types

	What are Custom Types?
	Creating Custom Attributes
	Creating Custom Item Types
	Adding Custom Typed Content

	Enabling Approval Routings and Notifications

	Overview of the Approval Process
	Enabling Approvals and Notifications
	Creating an Approval Routing
	Overriding Default Approval Routing
	Adding Status and Notification Portlets to Portal Pages
	Submitting an Item for Approval
	Approving and Rejecting Items

	Building Portal Pages

	What is a Portal Page?
	Creating Pages and Sub-Pages
	Editing Pages
	What is a Region?
	What is a Portlet?
	Configuring Regions
	Adding Tabs
	Which Building Blocks Should I Use?

	Sharing Portal Objects

	What are Shared Objects?
	Creating a Style
	Applying Styles
	Creating a Template
	Creating a Page Based on a Template
	What is a Navigation Page?
	Displaying Navigation Pages on Portal Pages
	Using Shared Objects Effectively

	Enabling and Controlling Customization in Portal

	What is Customization?
	Customizing Pages
	Customizing Portlets
	Using Parameters
	Integrating Page and Portlet Parameters
	What is an Event?
	Responding to Events
	Accessing Portal Objects

	Implementing Portal Search

	Identifying OracleAS Portal Searching Capabilities
	What is Basic Search?
	What is Advanced Search?
	What is Custom Search?
	Building a Custom Search Form
	Saving Your Searches
	Searching Document Content Using Oracle Text
	Displaying Search Results

	Integrating Content from Any Web Site

	Integrating Non-Portal Content into a Page
	What is Web Clipping?
	Integrating Content from External Web Sites Using the Web Clipping Portlet

	Displaying Data Using OmniPortlet

	What is OmniPortlet?
	Publishing Portlets with Disparate Data Sources
	Integrating Page Parameters with OmniPortlet
	Responding to OmniPortlet Events

	Creating and Managing Data-Driven Portlets

	Portlet Builder Development Environment
	What is a Provider?
	What is a Portal DB Provider?
	Applying List of Values to Data-Driven Portlets
	Developing Data-Driven Portlets
	What are Charts?
	Creating a Chart
	Publishing Data-Driven Portlets

	Creating Form and Report Data-Driven Portlets

	What is a Form Portlet?
	Creating a Form Based on a Table or View
	What is a List of Values?
	Applying Lists of Values to Data-Driven Portlets
	What is a Report Portlet?
	Creating a Report Using the Query Wizard
	Integrating Form and Report Portlets Using Links
	Publishing Forms and Reports as Portlets

	Integrating OracleAS Portal with Other Oracle Products

	Publishing Business Intelligence on a Portal Page
	Integrating OracleAS Discoverer with OracleAS Portal
	Integrating OracleAS Reports Services with OracleAS Portal