Finding Content Personalizing Your Portal

2 Interacting with Your Portal 2-1 2 Interacting with Your Portal This chapter contains information that public users and users with Personalize privileges need to know. It includes the following main sections: ■ Section 2.1, Viewing Pages ■ Section 2.2, Finding Information in Your Portal ■ Section 2.3, Personalizing Pages ■ Section 2.4, Subscribing to a Page or Item ■ Section 2.5, Accessing Oracle Portal Page Editing Tools ■ Section 2.6, Adding Content to a Page ■ Section 2.7, Getting Your Content Approved ■ Section 2.8, Troubleshooting Intended Audience The content of this chapter is intended for public users and users with Personalize privileges. If a particular task requires different privileges, the required privileges are listed before the steps of that task.

2.1 Viewing Pages

This section contains information on how to display pages and describes other actions available while viewing pages. To perform the actions described here you must be logged in to Oracle Portal: ■ Section 2.1.1, Logging in to Oracle Portal ■ Section 2.1.2, Displaying a Page ■ Section 2.1.3, Understanding Page and Item URLs ■ Section 2.1.4, Choosing Your Home Page ■ Section 2.1.5, Changing Your Password ■ Section 2.1.6, Choosing a Default Page Style ■ Section 2.1.7, Viewing Translated Content

2.1.1 Logging in to Oracle Portal

Your page may display a Login link or icon or the Login portlet. To log in to Oracle Portal, either: 2-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal ■ Click the Login link or icon and then enter your user name and password. ■ Use the Login portlet to enter your user name and password. If you do not know your user name or password, contact your portal administrator.

2.1.2 Displaying a Page

If you are logged in to Oracle Portal, you can view any page on which you have been granted at least View privileges. If you are not logged in to Oracle Portal, you can view only pages that are available to public users. When you display a page, you see only the content that you are authorized to see. To display a page: ■ In the Address or Location field of your browser, enter the URL for the page. The URL will look something like this: http:portalmachine:1000myportalpagemydadmyPageGroupmypage If you do not know the URL of the page, you might be able to access the page using navigation tools on your home page. If you do not see the page that you want to display, you probably don’t have appropriate access privileges on the page.

2.1.2.1 Refreshing a Page

If your page contains a Refresh link, click the link to regenerate the page and view the most up-to-date version of the page.

2.1.2.2 Refreshing a Portlet on a Page

If your portlets contain a Refresh icon in the portlet header, you can refresh the portlet content without having to refresh the entire page. See Section 10.2, Configuring Region Display Options.

2.1.2.3 Viewing New Items on a Page

If a New icon is displayed besides any item on a page, click New to display a list of all newly created items in the page group. See Section 5.5.4, Displaying the New and Updated Icons.

2.1.3 Understanding Page and Item URLs

In Oracle Portal, two types of URLs are used to access or bookmark portal objects: path-based URLs and durable URLs. Path-based URLs A path-based URL identifies the path taken through the portal to get to a particular object. It is an easy-to-read URL but as it contains the names of portal objects, the URL becomes invalid if the name of any object within the path changes. Note: Page designers with at least Manage ContentManage Items With Approval privileges on a page can add Refresh links. See Section 13.6.6, Adding a Portal Smart Link Item.