Setting Up the My Notifications Portlet to Show Your Subscriptions

Interacting with Your Portal 2-23 Figure 2–9 My Notification Portlet Example If the notification item subject includes parentheses, such as Account Info, the item is a Portal Smart Link. To personalize the My Notifications Portlet:

1. In the My Notifications portlet header, click Personalize.

2. In the Display Name field, enter the name that you want to appear in the portlet

header. The default is My Notifications.

3. Choose whether to Show All Notification Items in the portlet, or to Limit the List

to a specified number of notifications. The default is 10. There is no maximum limit, but you may start to experience performance issues if the number of notifications displayed in your portlet is too large.

4. Choose Show Subscription Notifications.

The My Notifications portlet shown in Figure 2–9 is set up to show all three types of notifications: Subscription, Expiry, and Approval.

5. Select whether to Display Notification Type Icons for notifications listed in the

portlet. When the My Notifications portlet is set up to show more than one type of notification Subscription, Expiry, Approval, the Type icons can help you distinguish between these different types.

6. Select whether to Display Notification Status for notifications listed in the portlet.

The subscription status values include: Table 2–4 Subscription Notification Status Values Status Description Item Deleted An item to which you subscribe was deleted. Item Expired An item to which you subscribe has expired. Item Updated An item to which you subscribed was updated. Note that updates include actual changes to items for example, additional text added to a file, and also changes in item versioning. If you set an item to be the current version, this is considered an item update for subscriptions. New Item A new item was added to a page to which you subscribe. New Page A new sub-page was added to a page to which you subscribe. Note that notifications are not sent for updates to a sub-page. New Portlet A new portlet was added to a page to which you subscribe. 2-24 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal A subscription notification always links to the current version of the item. ■ If you update an existing item, or set an existing version to be the current version, the notification status is Item Updated. ■ If you add an item as a new version and as the current version, the notification status is New Version. ■ If you add an item as a new version, but not the current version, and you update it, a subscription notification is not issued.

7. Click Apply.

8. Choose whether to display subscription notification items from All Page Groups

in the portal, or a specific set of page groups. Click the Browse Page Groups icon to select a page group. 9. Specify a time limit for the subscriptions displayed in the portlet. The default setting is 24 hours. Subscriptions older than the specified time limit are not displayed. 10. Specify a cache time period. The default is 60 minutes. This setting determines how frequently subscriptions in the cache are updated. If portal content changes frequently and real time updates are critical, choose a low value, for example, 10 minutes. If portal content is fairly static a longer cache time may be sufficient, for example, if you specify 360 minutes, the cache is updated once every 360 minutes. In addition, the cache is refreshed automatically for certain events, such as when you subscribe to an object.

11. Click OK.

2.5 Accessing Oracle Portal Page Editing Tools

If you are logged in to Oracle Portal and have at least Manage Content privileges on a page, you can display the page in Edit mode by clicking the Edit link at the top of the page. In Edit mode you can set page properties and add, modify, or delete portlets and items on the page. Whilst editing a page, the toolbar, shown in Figure 2–10 , is displayed at the top of the page. Figure 2–10 Edit Mode Toolbar In Edit mode, the changes you make to page content are visible to all users. If you want your changes to be visible to yourself only, personalize the page instead. See Section 2.3, Personalizing Pages. New Tab A new tab was added to a page to which you subscribe. New Version An item to which you subscribe has a new version. Table 2–4 Cont. Subscription Notification Status Values Status Description Interacting with Your Portal 2-25 There are several different editing modes in Oracle Portal: Graphical, Layout, List, Pending Items Preview, and Mobile Preview. To edit your page in a particular mode, click the appropriate link in the toolbar: ■ Graphical - Displays page and items as they appear on the finished page. You can also add and delete regions in this mode. ■ Layout - Displays regions without showing the actual content displayed on the page. In this mode, you can add, arrange, and remove regions on the page. You can also hide, show, delete, or move content. ■ List - Lists all the objects that appear on the page, as well as each objects size, type, date last updated, and so on. Use this mode to approve or reject, expire, unexpire, show, hide, check out, or check in content, submit drafts for approval, grant access to sub-pages, or make sub-pages public or private. In this mode you can also perform actions on several objects at once, move or copy objects to other pages, and purge deleted or expired items. ■ Pending Items Preview - Lists items that are awaiting approval. In this mode you can preview all your pending items, and approvers can view, approve, or reject pending items. In this mode you can also see your draft, hidden, deleted, and expired items. ■ Mobile Preview - Shows how pages will look on a mobile device. Your page group administrator determines which editing modes are available to you, when setting up the page group. See Section 4.4, Configuring a Page Group’s Page Edit Modes. This section describes: ■ Section 2.5.1, Accessing Page Editing Tools ■ Section 2.5.2, Accessing Page Portlet Editing Tools

2.5.1 Accessing Page Editing Tools

To display a page in Edit mode: 1. Navigate to the page.

2. Click Edit to switch to Edit mode.

Edit is the default name for this link. Your page designer may have given this a different name.

3. Do any of the following:

■ To change to a different editing mode, click an Editing Views link Graphical, Layout, or List. ■ To see how the page will look on a mobile device, click Mobile: Preview. ■ To review your draft items, or items awaiting approval, click Pending Items: Preview . If this link is not available, Approvals and Notifications are not enabled for the page group. See Section 5.4, Setting Up Approvals. Note: If you do not see the page that you want to work with, you may not have the appropriate page access privileges. See your page group administrator to gain access.