Click Select to confirm that the search result section is the one you want to clip.

5-18 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Portal ■ In the Title field, enter OTN Search. This title displays in the header of your Web Clipping portlet, as well as the pages where users can personalize parameters for the Web clipping. Figure 5–22 shows the Properties and Parameterize Inputs sections of the Find a Web Clipping page. Figure 5–22 Setting Properties for a Web Clipping

3. Because the content displayed in the portlet was reached by entering information

in the Search field on OTN, you can customize the parameters used by the search to allow end users to specify their own search string. In the Parameterize Inputs section, select the Click to start parameterizing check box.

4. In the parameters table, make the following changes:

■ In the Parameters column, choose p_Query from the list. ■ In the Personalizable column, choose Param1 from the list. You can manually add more parameters in the provider.xml file if you need to. ■ In the Display Name column, enter OTN Search. ■ Make sure that Default Value displays web clipping portlet to be sure you have selected the right parameter. Figure 5–23 shows the parameters table. Figure 5–23 Specifying Parameters for User Input

5. Click OK to display the default search results in the Web Clipping portlet on your

page.

6. In the Editing Views section, click View Page.

7. In the Web Clipping portlet header, click Personalize, as shown in

Figure 5–24 . Creating Content-Based Portlets with Web Clipping 5-19 Figure 5–24 Clicking Personalize in the Web Clipping Portlet Header

8. In the page that displays, scroll down to the Inputs section. Notice that the

parameter field for the search string is labeled OTN Search, as you specified for the Display Name for this parameter. In the OTN Search field, enter a different search string. For example, enter OmniPortlet 2004, as shown in Figure 5–25 . Figure 5–25 Specifying Input for Parameters

9. Click OK.

The Web Clipping portlet now displays the results of performing a search on OTN for OmniPortlet 2004 information, as shown in Figure 5–26 . Figure 5–26 New Web Clipping Result Based on Customer Input Parameter