In the URL Location field, enter the location of the starting Web page that links to Click Start.

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. 5-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Portal

5.2.3 Setting Web Clipping Portlet Properties

You can edit various portlet settings to change the appearance of the Web Clipping portlet and to specify how end users can interact with the portlet. To set Web Clipping portlet properties, perform the following steps:

1. Choose the section you want, click Select in the Web Clipping Studio banner. Web

Clipping Studio displays the Find a Web Clipping page with a Properties section, as shown in Figure 5–10 . Figure 5–10 Properties Section of Find a Web Clipping Page

2. From the URL Rewriting list in the Properties section, choose Inline if you want

link targets to be displayed inside the portlet, or choose None if you want link targets to replace the current Portal page in the browser.

3. In the Title field, enter a title to display in the portlet banner.

4. In the Description field, enter a description of the portlet.

5. In the Time Out seconds field, enter the amount of time in seconds for the Web

Clipping provider to attempt to contact the Web page from which the content was clipped.

6. In the Expires minutes field, enter the amount of time in minutes that cached

content is valid. Any requests for portlet content that occur within the time period you specify will be satisfied from the cache. Once the cache period is exceeded, requests for portlet content will be satisfied by retrieving content from the portlets Web Clipping data source. The cache will also be refreshed with this content. 7. If you entered any information in a form while clipping content for the Web Clipping portlet, the Parameterize Inputs section is available. Select the Click to start parameterizing check box to customize parameters associated with the Web Clipping portlet content. Then perform the following steps:

a. From the Parameters list, choose the parameters that you want to customize.

b. From the Personalizable list, select a parameter if you want to allow end users

to provide their own values for the parameters when they personalize the portlet. Select None if you do not want to allow this.

c. In the Display Name field, enter a name to be displayed for the parameter.

d. In the Default Value field, enter a value to use by default for the parameter.

Section 5.4.3, Personalizing a Web Clipping Portlet provides an example of personalizing parameters.

8. Click OK.