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

5-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Portal 4. Browse to the page that contains the content you want to clip. As you click hyperlinks in the Web page, your navigation links are recorded. 5. Once you display the page that contains the content you want to clip, in the Web Clipping Studio banner, click Section, as shown in Figure 5–7 . Figure 5–7 Sectioning the Target Web Page Sectioning divides the target Web page into its clippable sections, as shown in Figure 5–8 . After you click Section, you are no longer able to browse links in the displayed page. If you want to continue navigation, click Unsection in the Web Clipping Studio banner. Figure 5–8 Sectioned Target Web Page

6. At the top left of the section of the Web content you want to clip, click Choose.

You can choose only one section as a clipping at a time. Note: Any browsing operations that do not contribute to the eventual Web clipping will be discarded. Only the significant browsing operations are recorded for later playback during the show mode; any discarded links are not visited. For any Web sites that require HTTP Basic or Digest Authentication, a form is displayed that requests user name and password information. This encoded authentication information is recorded as part of the browsing information. Creating Content-Based Portlets with Web Clipping 5-7 7. Web Clipping Studio displays a preview of your chosen section. If it is the section you want, click Select in the Web Clipping Studio banner. The Web Clipping Studio displays the Find a Web Clipping page, with the properties of the clipping. If you do not want to use the section you clipped in your portlet, click Unselect to return to the page containing the section. You can choose another section on the page, or click Unsection to navigate to another page. Some sections may contain no data, only whitespace. For example, a Web page may contain an HTML DIV tag that contains no text or images. If you click Choose on a section that contains no data, Web Clipping displays a preview, but the preview correctly shows only whitespace. In this case, click Unselect in the preview page to return to the sectioned page. Then, select a section containing data.

8. In the Find a Web Clipping page, click OK to display the selected Web clipping in

the Web Clipping portlet on your page. You can edit default properties in the page. See Section 5.2.3, Setting Web Clipping Portlet Properties for more information. Figure 5–9 shows the content added to the Web Clipping portlet. Figure 5–9 Clipped Content Added to the Web Clipping Portlet on a Portal Page Note that the Refresh link in the Web Clipping Portlet retrieves fresh data from the originating Web site. The Portlet Refresh link reloads the portlet, but it may retrieve the data from the cache, depending upon the settings for expiration. Note: To increase the number of sections available from which to choose, click Section Smaller in the Web Clipping Studio banner. For example, you would click Section Smaller to drill down one level of nested tables. To decrease the number of sections available from which to choose, click Section Larger.