What Is Web Clipping?

Creating Content-Based Portlets with Web Clipping 5-3 – Preservation of head styles and fonts, and Cascading Style Sheets CSS – UTF-8 compliant character sets – Navigation through hyperlinks HTTP GET, form submissions HTTP POST, frames, and URL redirection ■ National Language Sets NLS in URLs and URL parameters. See Section 5.7, Current Limitations for Web Clipping for information about how Web Clipping determines the character set of clipped content. By default, all Web clipping definitions are stored persistently in the Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure database. Any secure information, such as passwords, are stored in encrypted form, according to the Data Encryption Standard DES, using Oracle encryption technology.

5.2 Adding Web Page Content to a Portal Page

To add Web page content to a portal page, follow the steps described in the following sections: ■ Section 5.2.1, Adding a Web Clipping Portlet to a Page ■ Section 5.2.2, Selecting a Section of a Web Page to Display in the Web Clipping Portlet ■ Section 5.2.3, Setting Web Clipping Portlet Properties

5.2.1 Adding a Web Clipping Portlet to a Page

To add a Web Clipping portlet to an Oracle Portal page, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Page Groups portlet. By default, the Page Groups portlet is located

on the Build tab of the Portal Builder page. 2. In the Layout Appearance section, for Pages, click Browse. 3. Figure 5–1 shows the Page Groups tab with the list of pages. For the page to which you want to add the Web Clipping portlet, click Edit in the Actions column. Figure 5–1 Selecting a Page The page you want to edit is displayed. 5-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Portal

4. In the region in which you want to add the Web Clipping portlet, click the Add

Portlet icon. Figure 5–2 shows a portion of the page. Figure 5–2 Adding a Portlet to a Page

5. On the Add Portlets page, in the Available Portlets list, click the Portlet Builders

link.

6. Click the Web Clipping Portlet link.

7. Click OK. The new instance of the Web Clipping portlet now displays on your

portal page, as shown in Figure 5–3 . Figure 5–3 Web Clipping Portlet Added to a Page

5.2.2 Selecting a Section of a Web Page to Display in the Web Clipping Portlet

To select a section of a Web page to display in the Web Clipping portlet, you use the Web Clipping Studio. Using the Web Clipping Studio, you can do the following: ■ Browse for Web content ■ Section the chosen target page ■ Choose the exact portion of the Web content to clip ■ Preview the clipped content as a portlet ■ Save the clipped content as a portlet ■ Set portlet properties and save the updated portlet information To select a section of a Web page to display in the Web Clipping portlet, perform the following steps:

1. Above the Web Clipping portlet, click the Edit Defaults icon, as shown in

Figure 5–4 . Figure 5–4 Editing Default Settings Creating Content-Based Portlets with Web Clipping 5-5 The Find a Web Clipping page is displayed.

2. In the URL Location field, enter the location of the starting Web page that links to

the content you want to clip, as shown in Figure 5–5 . Figure 5–5 Specifying a URL

3. Click Start.

The Web Clipping Studio displays the page you specified, as shown in Figure 5–6 . Figure 5–6 Browsing to a Page Containing Content for a Web Clipping Note that the URL in the browser bar changes from: http:host:portportalpage?_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL... To: http:host:portportalToolswebClipping...