candace stover principal product manager oracleas portal oracle corporation
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Candace StoverPrincipal Product ManagerOracleAS PortalOracle 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
AAStyles Templates
Smart LinkSmart LinkSmart LinkSmart Link
Login/outLogin/outLogin/outLogin/out
Page PathPage PathPage PathPage Path
Sub-PageSub-PageSub-PageSub-Page
Nav Bars Content Attribution
Page Structure
Text ItemText ItemDescription of Text itemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C. StoverAuthor: C. Stover
Link ItemLink ItemDescription of Link itemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03
ItemRegion
Nav.Nav.PortletPortlet
Banner PortletBanner Portlet
Portlet Regions
AdvertAdvertPortletPortlet
StocksStocksFavoritesFavorites
Styles
Text ItemText ItemDescription of Text itemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C. StoverAuthor: C. Stover
Link ItemLink ItemDescription of Link itemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03
Nav.Nav.PortletPortlet
Banner PortletBanner Portlet
AdvertAdvertPortletPortlet
StocksStocksFavoritesFavorites
Text ItemText ItemDescription of Text itemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C. StoverAuthor: C. Stover
Link ItemLink ItemDescription of Link itemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03
Nav.Nav.PortletPortlet
Banner PortletBanner Portlet
AdvertAdvertPortletPortlet
StocksStocksFavoritesFavorites
Nav.Nav.PortletPortletNav.Nav.PortletPortlet
Banner PortletBanner PortletBanner PortletBanner Portlet
AdvertAdvertPortletPortletAdvertAdvertPortletPortlet
AAText ItemText ItemDescription of Text itemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C. StoverAuthor: C. Stover
Link ItemLink ItemDescription of Link itemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03Author: B. Lankenau Date: 8/21/03
AA
Favorites StocksFavoriteFavoriteFavorite
StockStockStock AA
Page StyleItem Region Style
Page Portlet Style
Navigation
Smart LinkSmart LinkSmart LinkSmart Link
Login/outLogin/outLogin/outLogin/out
Page PathPage PathPage PathPage Path
Sub-Page Sub-Page Sub-Page Sub-Page
Published as Portlets
Text ItemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C.Stover
Text ItemDescription of Text itemAuthor: C.Stover
Link ItemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 11/12/02
Link ItemDescription of Link itemAuthor: B. Lankenau Date: 11/12/02
Stocks PortletStocks PortletFavorites PortletFavorites Portlet
Link 1Link 1
Link 2Link 2
Link 3Link 3
Link 4Link 4
UI Templates
HTML with special tags to hold Portal content.
Page Templates
Define page structure
Define page style Define common
content
Nav.PortletNav.PortletNav.PortletNav.Portlet
UI and Page Templates
Nav.PortletNav.PortletNav.PortletNav.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
AQ&Q U E S T I O N SQ U E S T I O N S
A N S W E R SA N S W E R S
Portal Session & Activity Guide
Manage, Integrate, and Publish Enterprise Content into Your PortalTuesday, 8:30 AM Moscone 133
Develop Java Portlets for Your PortalTuesday, 5:00 PM Moscone 252
Get Your Community to Collaborate on the Same Portal PageWednesday, 8:30 AM Moscone 252
Integrate your Enterprise Business Applications Into Your PortalWednesday, 11:00 AM Moscone 252
Tips and Techniques for Deploying a Scalable PortalWednesday, 1:00 PM Moscone 302
Administer and Monitor Your Portal with Oracle Enterprise ManagerWednesday, 4:30 PM Moscone 302
Don’t forget to visit the Hands-On and Demogrounds
