Click OK. Editing a Perspective

5-34 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal 1. In the Navigator, click the link for the page group that owns the perspectives that you want to delete. To get to the Navigator click the Navigator link on any page. By default you can find a Navigator link on the Portal Builder page.

2. Click the Perspectives link.

3. Click the actions link.

4. Select the check boxes next to the perspectives that you want to delete. To delete all the perspectives in the page group, select the check box in the header row.

5. Click Delete.

6. In the confirmation page, click OK.

5.4 Setting Up Approvals

Oracle Portal enables you to manage and control the publishing of content on your portal through the use of approvals. Oracle Portal provides a special privilege for approvals, Manage Items With Approval. Each item added or modified by a user with this privilege must be approved before it is published to the portal. This enables you to delegate the creation of portal content without relinquishing control over what is actually displayed to your users, or compromising the quality of the content. For example, you may want each of your company’s product whitepapers to be reviewed by your legal department before they are published. Using approvals, you can easily establish an approval process that includes the legal department as one of the required approvers. This ensures that each author of a whitepaper cannot publish their documents to the portal until they have been checked by the legal department. Approval processes can also reduce or even eliminate the costs of a paper-driven office in which hard copy documents requiring approvals, such as expense reports and travel requests, create bottlenecks for your workers. When you define approval processes, you allow the appropriate people in your organization to receive notification of pending items requiring approval, to review the items, and to approve or reject the items, all from your companys portal. Oracle Portal offers two different methods for defining approval processes: Oracle Portal approval processes and Oracle BPEL workflow processes. ■ An Oracle Portal approval process is an approval process created within Oracle Portal itself. You specify the approvers on the Approval tab of the page group or page. Oracle Portal approval processes offer a simple, easy to use, self-contained way of implementing approvals. ■ An Oracle BPEL workflow process is created using Oracle BPEL Designer. In Oracle Portal, the portal administrator then creates a process definition that maps to the Oracle BPEL workflow process. Using Oracle BPEL workflow processes provides functionality beyond that provided by Oracle Portal approval processes, such as escalation and suspension. This section contains the following sub-sections: ■ Section 5.4.1, Enabling Oracle BPEL Approval Processes Tip: If the perspectives are shared, they will be in the Shared Objects page group. See Section 4.6, Sharing Objects Across Page Groups