Click OK. Setting Up the My Notifications Portlet to Show the Status of Oracle Portal Approvals

2-34 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal the next approver. On rejection, the approval process ends. This is a useful way of bypassing a user in an approval process who is unavailable. ■ Page group administrators can approve or reject any pending item in their page groups from Pending Items Preview mode, or from the Pending Approvals Monitor portlet. ■ Page or content managers with the Manage or Manage Content privilege on the page can approve or reject any pending item on their pages from Pending Items Preview mode, or from the Pending Approvals Monitor portlet. ■ If you do not have the appropriate access privileges for the page that includes the item you approved or rejected, you are redirected to the Oracle Portal home page after you approve or reject the item. Approving an Item To approve an item: 1. In the My Notifications or My Worklist portlet, click the item’s subject see Figure 2–16 to access the Approval Notifications Detail page.

2. To review the item, click the Item Link.

3. Enter your approval comments and click Approve.

Rejecting an Item To reject an item: 1. In the My Notifications or My Worklist portlet, click the item’s subject see Figure 2–16 to access the Approval Notifications Detail page.

2. To review the item, click the Item Link.

3. Enter your rejection comments, and click Reject.

What If an Item Is Rejected? If you created the item that is rejected, the item appears in your My Approval Status portlet with the status Rejected. Also, when you view the page that includes the item in Pending Items Preview mode, you will see that the item was rejected. You, as the item creator, can edit the rejected item from the Pending Items Preview mode. After the item is edited, it is automatically resubmitted for approval. See Section 2.7.1.1, Using the Pending Items Preview Mode. A rejected item can be deleted by the item creator, the page group administrator, or a page or content manager with the Manage or Manage Content privilege on the page. The items status changes to Deleted. A rejected item that was deleted can be un-deleted, provided it hasn’t been purged. When you un-delete or restore a rejected item, the items status changes back to Rejected. Rejected items that are deleted will be purged when all other deleted items are purged in the page group. All actions performed on the rejected item appear in the approval history for the item.

2.8 Troubleshooting

How can I be sure that I am seeing the most up to date content Your browsers default settings are sufficient for displaying valid portal content. If those defaults have been altered, you should check that their values do not inadvertently disable valuable cache capabilities.