Candace Stover Principal Product Manager

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Candace StoverPrincipal Product Manager OracleAS
Portal Oracle Corporation
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Design an Attractive and Compelling Portal
Interface Today and Tomorrow
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Agenda

• Declarative Publishing with Oracle Application
  Server Portal
• Investigate the features Portal provides in its
  wizard driven declarative development environment
  used in defining the user interface of the portal
  pages
• Sneak Peak Features currently used inside
  Oracle and coming soon to Portal
• Extending Portals to create a unified web presence

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Declarative Publishing with OracleAS Portal

• Page Groups
• Hierarchy of Pages and Sub-Pages for organizing
  content, and container for portal objects
• Page Structure
• Pages are subdivided into regions to define the
  page structure
• Styles
• A set of values and parameters that controls the
  color and font.

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Declarative Publishing with OracleAS Portal

• Navigation
• Portal provides Smart navigation items to
  declaratively handle common navigation links, and
  Navigation Pages
• Templates
• Establishes a common look and feel and common
  content for every page that uses the template
• Content
• Approvals
• A series of one or more steps in which a newly
  created or updated item must be approved before
  it can be published

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Page Groups
Smart Link
Login/out
Page Path
Sub-Page
Styles
Templates
Nav Bars
Content Attribution
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Page Structure
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Styles
Page Style
Page Portlet Style
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Navigation
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UI Templates

• HTML with special tags to hold Portal content.

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Page Templates

• Define page structure
• Define page style
• Define common content

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UI and Page Templates
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Content

• Built-In Attributes
• Author, Creator, Create Date, Modified Date,
  Effective Date, Expiry Date, Title, Description,
  Keywords,
• Built-In Content Types
• Files, Links, Images, Image Maps, PL/SQL, Text
  (HTML), URL
• Built-In Page Types
• Container, PL/SQL, URL
• Built-In Classification
• Categories and Perspectives
• Use wizards to define your own attributes and
  custom types

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Approvals
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D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Portals Declarative Development Environment
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Sneak Preview Extending the Portal Page
Interface

• Item Templates
• Show content rendered in the context of a
  template
• On-Demand content submission
• Work on drafts of items until ready to submit for
  publishing

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Item Templates

• Reference an item via URL instead of a Page
• Specify template at the folder level
• All items in the folder display within template
• Allows for separation of content management and
  publishing
• Enables content contributors to focus on what
  to publish in stead of how
• Allows templates to be changed and modified
  without affecting content

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On-Demand Content Submission

• Extension of Portal Approval Process
• Draft Status
• Enables continued editing of content on a page
  while only visible to page designer
• Submission causes automatic publishing, or
  submission to approval process

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On-Demand Content Submission
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D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Sneak Preview Item Templates and On-Demand
Content Submission
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Futures Extending Portal to create a unified web
presence

• Portals, websites and business applications all
  leverage a common model
• Portal will become the place where all content,
  applications, and processes are brought together
• Any service, data source, or visualizations
  created will be immediately available to portal,
  site, and application developers alike

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Portal Session Activity Guide
Dont forget to visit the Hands-On and Demogrounds

• Manage, Integrate, and Publish Enterprise Content
  into Your PortalTuesday, 830 AM Moscone 133
• Develop Java Portlets for Your PortalTuesday,
  500 PM Moscone 252
• Get Your Community to Collaborate on the Same
  Portal PageWednesday, 830 AM Moscone 252

• Integrate your Enterprise Business Applications
  Into Your PortalWednesday, 1100 AM Moscone 252
• Tips and Techniques for Deploying a Scalable
  PortalWednesday, 100 PM Moscone 302
• Administer and Monitor Your Portal with Oracle
  Enterprise ManagerWednesday, 430 PM Moscone 302

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