Click Close. Enabling Page Managers to Specify Their Own Approval Processes

5-38 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal By default, when you enable approvals and notifications for the page group, a single step approval process is defined at the page group level with CONTENT_MANAGER as the default approver. When you enter these special approvers, use uppercase text only.

5. In the Routing Method for Approvers radio group, choose a routing method for

the approval routing list: ■ One at a time, all must approve Serial, All —This sends the approval to approvers in the step one at time in the sequence specified. All of the approvers must respond to the approval. ■ All at the same time, all must approve Parallel, All —This sends the approval to approvers in the step all at the same time. All of the approvers must respond to the approval. ■ All at the same time, only one must approve Parallel, Any —This sends the approval to approvers in the step all at the same time. Only one of the approvers must respond to the approval.

6. Click Add Step to continue adding steps to the approval routing list.

For each step, select approvers and a routing method. Each step you add is listed in the Approval Process section. You can edit existing steps by clicking the list of users and groups, or the Edit icon. When you edit a step, the step details are displayed in the Approval Routing List section and the Add Step button changes to Update Step. Because Oracle Internet Directory can include multiple directory containers that can use the same group names, the distinguished name DN is displayed next to any group that does not belong to the local Oracle Portal instance. 7. If you do not want to allow content contributors to upload draft items without approval, make sure the Enable Item Drafts option is not selected. For more information about draft items, see Section 5.4.5, Enabling Draft Items .

8. Select All Users Require Approval if every content contributor requires approval.

By default, this options is not selected which means that only users with the Manage Items With Approval privilege require approval.

9. Click OK when the approval routing list is complete.

If there is an active approval process pending for an item, the approval routing steps for the item cannot be reordered. Also, you cannot edit active steps that is, any step which is currently active within an approval process. However, you can still delete and edit any steps which are not currently active.

5.4.3.2 Specifying an Oracle BPEL Workflow Process for a Page Group

To specify an Oracle BPEL workflow process to use for a page group:

1. From the Portal Navigator page, choose the page group to be edited.

Note: Before you can specify an Oracle BPEL workflow process for a page group the process must first be created and deployed using Oracle BPEL Designer and then the portal administrator must create a process definition for that process. For information about how to do this, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Portal.