Viewing New Items on a Page

Interacting with Your Portal 2-3 For example, if you navigate to an item and look in your browser’s address bar, the format of the path-based URL will look something like this: http:host:portportalpagedad[lang-language][ver-v ersion]page_group_namepage_pathitem_name For a detailed description of this URL format, see Appendix C, Formation of URLs in Oracle Portal. Here are some examples: ■ URL to access the top-level page mypage in the page group MyPageGroup: http:mymachine.mycompany.com:5000portalpagemydadMyPageGroupmypage ■ URL to access the current, English version of myDocument.htm on page1: http:mymachine.mycompany.com:5000portalpagemydadlang-enMyPageGroup mypagepage1myDocument.htm ■ URL to access the third, English version of myDocument.htm: http:mymachine.mycompany.com:5000portalpagemydadlang-enver-3 MyPageGroupmypagepage1myDocument.htm ■ URL to access a draft or pending version of myDocument.htm: http:mymachine.mycompany.com:5000portalpagemydadlang-enver-STAGE MyPageGroupmypagepage1myDocument.htm Durable URLs A durable URL uses a globally unique identifier GUID to identify portal objects. Because the GUID of an object never changes, the URL will continue to be valid if the object name changes. This is the durable URL format for an item: http:host:portportalpagedad[lang-language][ver-v ersion]item_guid For example, you may be given this URL to access the English version of a page with the GUID A47D41ECA23648A9E030007F0100118A: http:mymachine.mycompany.com:5000portalpagemydadlang-en A47D41ECA23648A9E030007F0100118A For a detailed description of this URL format, see Appendix C, Formation of URLs in Oracle Portal. When you click a durable link, Oracle Portal converts the durable URL to a path-based URL and this is why your browser address bar always displays path-based URLs. Your page designer controls the URL format used for object links in a particular region, for more information see Section 14.2.6, Specifying How Item URLs Are Formed. If you right-click a link and copy its target address, you can determine the URL format by pasting the copied link into your browsers address bar. Note: You can find out the durable link for any item or page by looking in its property sheet. See also Section 7.3, Viewing Information About Pages and Page Content.