At the top left of the section of the Web content you want to clip, click Choose.

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5.2.3 Setting Web Clipping Portlet Properties

You can edit various portlet settings to change the appearance of the Web Clipping portlet and to specify how end users can interact with the portlet. To set Web Clipping portlet properties, perform the following steps:

1. Choose the section you want, click Select in the Web Clipping Studio banner. Web

Clipping Studio displays the Find a Web Clipping page with a Properties section, as shown in Figure 5–10 . Figure 5–10 Properties Section of Find a Web Clipping Page

2. From the URL Rewriting list in the Properties section, choose Inline if you want

link targets to be displayed inside the portlet, or choose None if you want link targets to replace the current Portal page in the browser.

3. In the Title field, enter a title to display in the portlet banner.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the portlet.

5. In the Time Out seconds field, enter the amount of time in seconds for the Web

Clipping provider to attempt to contact the Web page from which the content was clipped.

6. In the Expires minutes field, enter the amount of time in minutes that cached

content is valid. Any requests for portlet content that occur within the time period you specify will be satisfied from the cache. Once the cache period is exceeded, requests for portlet content will be satisfied by retrieving content from the portlets Web Clipping data source. The cache will also be refreshed with this content. 7. If you entered any information in a form while clipping content for the Web Clipping portlet, the Parameterize Inputs section is available. Select the Click to start parameterizing check box to customize parameters associated with the Web Clipping portlet content. Then perform the following steps:

a. From the Parameters list, choose the parameters that you want to customize.

b. From the Personalizable list, select a parameter if you want to allow end users

to provide their own values for the parameters when they personalize the portlet. Select None if you do not want to allow this.

c. In the Display Name field, enter a name to be displayed for the parameter.

d. In the Default Value field, enter a value to use by default for the parameter.

Section 5.4.3, Personalizing a Web Clipping Portlet provides an example of personalizing parameters.

8. Click OK.

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5.3 Integrating Authenticated Web Content Using Single Sign-On

This section walks you through an example that demonstrates how you can leverage OracleAS Single Sign-On to integrate content from external Web sites that require authentication into a Web Clipping portlet. The example incorporates a secured page from Oracle Metalink an external application into a Web Clipping portlet. To integrate an external application, perform the following steps: 1. Set up the external application in Oracle Portal, specifying the authentication information by performing the following steps. Refer to Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Portal for more details. a. Log in to Oracle Portal as a user who has SSO Administration privileges, for example, the orcladmin user. b. Navigate to the Administer External Applications portlet. Click the Administer tab, then click the Portal subtab. In the SSO Server Administration section, which is in the right column, select Administer External Applications.

c. Click Add External Application.

d. In the Create External Application page, in the Application Name field, enter

a name for the application, for example, Metalink.

e. For Login URL, enter the URL to log in to the application, for example,

http:metalink.oracle.commetalinkplsqlsit_ main.showSitemap?p_showTitle=0. To determine the URL, navigate to the desired application in a browser and note the URL. For Form-based Authorization, view the source of the login page for the external application and note the URL to be accessed during the login action.

f. For User NameID Field Name, enter the field name that the external

application uses for the user name. Determine the field name by viewing the source for the desired page. If the Authentication method uses Basic Authentication, you do not need to enter a field name. For Metalink, you do not need to enter anything in this field.

g. For Password Field Name, enter the field name that the external application

uses for the password. Determine the field name by viewing the source for the desired page. If the Authentication method uses Basic Authentication, you do not need to enter a field name. For Metalink, you do not need to enter anything in this field.

h. Select Basic Authentication as the authentication method.

Figure 5–11 shows a portion of the Create External Application page: