Under Layout Appearance, click the Browse link next to the Pages heading.

12-18 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal context, such as when a user navigates away from the item content, then navigates back to it. When users click a tab on a Portal Template for items, the tab URL displaces the item URL and item content is not preserved. This means that users switching between tabs on a page assembled from an item template, may lose the context of the item whose URL rendered the item template. In such a case, users are likely to see the default placeholder item in lieu of the item that originally invoked the template. One way to circumvent confusing, though logical, situations like this is to keep item templates as simple as possible, with minimal in-page navigation. That is, with few if any tabs and sub-tabs. Whenever you place an item placeholder on a Portal Template, it becomes a Portal Template for items. This is true even when the item placeholder is in a non-active state, such as Draft, Pending, Rejected, Hidden, Expired, and so on. Note, however, that when the item placeholder is not in an active state, its default content or the content that replaces it when an item is rendered does not display. To create a Portal Template for items: 1. Log in to Oracle Portal.

2. Click the Build tab to bring it forward.

3. From the Page Groups portlet Work In drop-down list, select a page group to own

the template. By default, the Page Groups portlet is located on the Build tab of the Portal Builder page. If you plan to use the template across page groups, select the Shared Objects page group.

4. In the Layout Appearance section, click the Create link next to the Portal

Templates heading.

5. Enter a display name in the Display Name field.

Use any character, including spaces. For information on object naming rules in Oracle Portal, see Appendix D, Object Naming Rules in Oracle Portal .

6. Check the Make available for use in this page group check box if you want users

to be able to apply this template now. Consider leaving this check box blank until you have completed creating the template. Once this option is selected, the template displays on the relevant template pick lists. For example, if this check box is selected, once the template Note: Items on the template itself are not selectable as default content for an item placeholder. When items of the type URL with Display Options set to Item Displayed Directly In Page Area are rendered with Portal Templates for items, the item cannot point to a URL that requires HTTP authentication. Such items rendered as links have no such restriction. Note: In the Oracle Portal user interface, an asterisk indicates a field that requires a value.