Setting up the Oracle Portal environment

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Setting up the Oracle Portal environment is a collaborative process between many different users: the DBA, the portal administrator, content area administrators, and so on. The DBA can complete any task within Oracle Portal, but he or she may wish to delegate certain responsibilities to the portal administrator. Likewise, although the portal administrator can complete any task on any content area, the content area administrator will most likely be responsible for setting up and maintaining a given content area. If you are the DBA, you must:  Complete the configuration tasks as specified in the Installation Guide. This includes: Installing Oracle Portal 3.0, either in a single instance or in the distributed mode. Fine tune the middle tier (i.e. iAS Web server, modplsql, and JServ) to ensure maximum scalability. Create schemas and grant privileges for applications For every application, the DBA must create an application schema to store the database objects associated with the application components. Additionally, the DBA may need to grant database privileges to the application schema on the specific tables/views the application will use. Grant access to the Database tab in the Navigator. By default, only the DBA has access to this when the product is first installed. The DBA must explicitly grant access to other users.   Set up the application development environment so users can develop Oracle Portal applications. How? If you are the portal administrator, you should:  Configure gateway settings, which allows you to set some performance options, re-locate the images directory, and so on How? Set the system default home page How? Set the system default page style How? Categorize portlets in the portlet repository, so users can organize the portlet repository by provider or by category How? Create at least one content area How? Assign a content area administrator to each content area How? Add remote nodes, so that users can access Oracle Portal portlets from providers outside this instance of Oracle Portal How? Create Oracle Portal users How? Optionally, create groups and assign users to them How? Create a page style for your home page(s) that embraces your corporate logo and colors How? Create any necessary pages, such as the default home pages for each group How? Set the system default page style How? Set the system default home page How? Make sure all pages that will be used frequently by a wide audience are in Top-Level pages on the Pages tab in the Navigator How? If you are a content area administrator, see Content area administrator checklist.

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