Click Apply to save your changes and remain on the Edit Region page, or click

10-18 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal region. For information on HTML content layouts, see Section 12.3.2, Using HTML to Define the Layout and Appearance of Region Content . This section discusses how to specify the attributes you would like to display. For example, by default, item regions display the Link - Image and Display Name, Associated Functions, Description, and Item Content attributes for each item in the region. In some regions you might want to provide more information. For example, you might want to include the Document Size, Expire Date, or some custom attribute specific to your own content. In some regions, you might want to provide less information. For example, you might choose not to include item descriptions. The Portlet Content and Item Content attributes are always selected by default. These attributes represent the actual content of the portlet or item. If they are removed from the Displayed Attributes list, the portlet or item does not display in the region. To change the attributes displayed in an item or portlet region: 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 to be edited. By default, the Page Groups portlet is located on the Build tab of the Portal Builder page.

4. Under Pages in the Layout Appearance section, click the link to the page to be

edited. This opens the page in Edit mode.

5. Click the Edit Region icon in the region to be edited

Figure 10–28 . Figure 10–29 The Edit Region Icon

6. Click the Attributes tab to bring it forward.

7. Select the Select Attributes radio button.

8. To add an attribute to the region, select the attribute in the Available Attributes

list and click the Move icon that points to the Displayed Attributes list. Use the buttons to the right of the Displayed Attributes list to arrange the display order of attributes. For example, if you want the Description attribute to be displayed first, select Description in the Displayed Attributes list, and click the Move Top icon to move it to the top of the list.

9. Use Blank Line, Space, Hard Blank Line, and Hard Space attributes to

control the layout of the region attributes. Add as many of these attributes as you like. They display according to the following rules: Note: For a list and descriptions of all seeded attributes, see Appendix A, Oracle Portal Seeded Objects , Section A.2, Base Attributes . Working with Layouts 10-19 ■ Blank Line inserts a blank line between attributes as specified, unless the subsequent attribute has no value. In this case, the Blank Line attribute is ignored to avoid unnecessary white space. ■ Hard Blank Line inserts a blank line between attributes as specified regardless of whether any subsequent attributes have values. ■ Space inserts a blank space between attributes as specified, unless the subsequent attribute has no value. In this case, the Space attribute is ignored to avoid unnecessary white space. ■ Hard Space inserts a blank space between attributes as specified regardless of whether any subsequent attributes have values.

10. To remove an attribute from the region, select the attribute in the Displayed

Attributes list and click the Move icon that points to the Available Attributes list. 11. Click Apply to save your changes. 12. Click Close to return to the page. When an attribute does not have a value, it does not display in the region, even though it was moved to the Displayed Attributes list. For example, if the you move the Description attribute to the Displayed Attributes list, but no description was entered for the item when it was added or edited, then the Description attribute will not display next to the item. Note, however, that no matter what attributes are displayed for the region, navigation item types, such as Portal Smart Links, List of Objects, and the like, do not display any attributes other than Item Content and Display Name or some version of Display Name, such as Search Label. If you remove Item Content or Display Name from the list of Displayed Attributes, navigation item types will nonetheless continue to display the Item Content or the Display Name. You can display MIME type images next to items on a page to provide users with a visual cue about the item type. For example, a Microsoft Word MIME type image is a small version of a Word document icon. It would display next to any Microsoft Word documents uploaded to the page. To display the MIME type image before any other attribute recommended, select Item Type Icon in the Displayed Attributes list, and click the Move Top icon. When a page link item is selected to display in a region with the Link - Image and Display Name attribute selected, and the user has provided an image but no display name for the page link item, after an upgrade the Link - Image and Display Name attribute is rendered as the title of the target page along with the original uploaded image. If this is not the desired effect, select the attribute Link - Image OR Display Name for the affected region. This will result in just the image being displayed.

10.2.10 Grouping Items in a Region

When your portal content is time-sensitive, diverse, closely identified with subject-matter experts, or easily divided into specific functional areas, such as presentations, archives, and articles, grouping it according to date, category, author, or item type could prove useful. The care given to ensuring that users can find a specific page can extend to ensuring that they can find specific content. One way to do this is to group content. In Oracle Portal, you can group region content by: ■ Category ■ Author ■ Date