Candace Stover Principal Product Manager OracleAS Portal Oracle Corporation

Design an Attractive and Compelling Portal Interface Today and Tomorrow

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

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.

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

Page Groups A A StylesTemplates Smart Link Login/outLogin/out Page Path Sub-PageSub-Page Nav BarsContent Attribution

Page Structure Text Item Description of Text item Author: C. Stover Link Item Description of Link item Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03 Item Region Nav. Portlet Banner Portlet Portlet Regions AdvertPortlet StocksFavorites

Styles Text Item Description of Text item Author: C. Stover Link Item Description of Link item Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03 Nav. Portlet Banner Portlet AdvertPortlet StocksFavorites Text Item Description of Text item Author: C. Stover Link Item Description of Link item Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03 Nav. Portlet Banner Portlet AdvertPortlet StocksFavorites Nav.PortletNav.Portlet AdvertPortletAdvertPortlet A A Text Item Description of Text item Author: C. Stover Link Item Description of Link item Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03 A A FavoritesStocks Favorite Stock A A Page Style Item Region Style Page Portlet Style

Navigation Smart Link Login/outLogin/out Page Path Sub-PageSub-Page Published as Portlets Text Item Description of Text item Author: C.Stover Link Item Description of Link item Author: B. Lankenau Date: 11/12/02 Stocks Portlet Favorites Portlet Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4

UI Templates  HTML with special tags to hold Portal content.

Page Templates  Define page structure  Define page style  Define common content Nav. Portlet

UI and Page Templates Nav. Portlet

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

Approvals

D E M O N S T R A T I O N Portal’s Declarative Development Environment

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

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

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

On-Demand Content Submission

D E M O N S T R A T I O N Sneak Preview: Item Templates and On-Demand Content Submission

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

A Q & Q U E S T I O N S A N S W E R S

Portal Session & Activity Guide  Manage, Integrate, and Publish Enterprise Content into Your Portal Tuesday, 8:30 AM Moscone 133  Develop Java Portlets for Your Portal Tuesday, 5:00 PM Moscone 252  Get Your Community to Collaborate on the Same Portal Page Wednesday, 8:30 AM Moscone 252  Integrate your Enterprise Business Applications Into Your Portal Wednesday, 11:00 AM Moscone 252  Tips and Techniques for Deploying a Scalable Portal Wednesday, 1:00 PM Moscone 302  Administer and Monitor Your Portal with Oracle Enterprise Manager Wednesday, 4:30 PM Moscone 302 Don ’ t forget to visit the Hands-On and Demogrounds