Viewing Page Property Sheets

7-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal

7.3.3 Viewing Item Property Sheets

The item property sheet provides a quick look at useful information about an item. This includes the item’s durable URL, display option, description, and so on. To access an item property sheet:

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 the page group that

owns the page that contains the item. By default, the Page Groups portlet is located on the Build tab of the Portal Builder page.

4. In the Layout Appearance section, under the Pages heading, click the link to the

page that contains the relevant item. This opens the page in Edit mode.

5. Click the Property Sheet icon associated with the relevant item

Figure 7–6 . This icon does not display by default. The item region must be configured to display it. Figure 7–6 The Property Sheet Icon The item’s property sheet displays in a secondary window Figure 7–7 . Defining and Displaying Page Information 7-9 Figure 7–7 Example Item Property Sheet If the Property Sheet icon does not display next to the relevant item, the Property Sheet attribute is probably not exposed in the display settings for the region that contains the item or included in the HTML template that is applied to the region. For information on displaying region attributes, see Section 10.2, Configuring Region Display Options . For information on displaying attributes through an HTML template, see Chapter 12, Providing a Standard Look and Feel and Appendix E, Substitution Tags for HTML and Unstructured UI Templates .

6. Click the Close button to close the property sheet window.

7.4 Classifying a Page

Oracle Portal provides a number of methods for ensuring that your users can locate information. Methods include searchable metadata values, such as an object’s author, its keywords, or its classification. Oracle Portal provides categories and perspectives for classifying the purpose and target audience of a page and its content. Users can run a search against one or more categories or perspectives. The search returns a dynamically assembled list of links to all objects classified under those categories and perspectives. The creation of categories and perspectives is one of the tasks a page group administrator performs in the course of setting up a page group. This task is discussed at length in Section 5.3, Setting Up Content Classification . This section provides information on how to apply categories and perspectives to pages. It includes the following sub-sections: ■ Section 7.4.1, Assigning a Category to a Page