Logging in to Oracle Portal

2-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal ■ Click the Login link or icon and then enter your user name and password. ■ Use the Login portlet to enter your user name and password. If you do not know your user name or password, contact your portal administrator.

2.1.2 Displaying a Page

If you are logged in to Oracle Portal, you can view any page on which you have been granted at least View privileges. If you are not logged in to Oracle Portal, you can view only pages that are available to public users. When you display a page, you see only the content that you are authorized to see. To display a page: ■ In the Address or Location field of your browser, enter the URL for the page. The URL will look something like this: http:portalmachine:1000myportalpagemydadmyPageGroupmypage If you do not know the URL of the page, you might be able to access the page using navigation tools on your home page. If you do not see the page that you want to display, you probably don’t have appropriate access privileges on the page.

2.1.2.1 Refreshing a Page

If your page contains a Refresh link, click the link to regenerate the page and view the most up-to-date version of the page.

2.1.2.2 Refreshing a Portlet on a Page

If your portlets contain a Refresh icon in the portlet header, you can refresh the portlet content without having to refresh the entire page. See Section 10.2, Configuring Region Display Options.

2.1.2.3 Viewing New Items on a Page

If a New icon is displayed besides any item on a page, click New to display a list of all newly created items in the page group. See Section 5.5.4, Displaying the New and Updated Icons.

2.1.3 Understanding Page and Item URLs

In Oracle Portal, two types of URLs are used to access or bookmark portal objects: path-based URLs and durable URLs. Path-based URLs A path-based URL identifies the path taken through the portal to get to a particular object. It is an easy-to-read URL but as it contains the names of portal objects, the URL becomes invalid if the name of any object within the path changes. Note: Page designers with at least Manage ContentManage Items With Approval privileges on a page can add Refresh links. See Section 13.6.6, Adding a Portal Smart Link Item. 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.