A region is an area on a page that displays information provided by a portlet. The configuration of the regions on a page is called the page's layout. When you create a page, you choose a layout to define the initial configuration of the regions for the page. Oracle Portal includes several layouts to get you started, for example the Two Column Layout:
After choosing the initial layout of the page, you can change the
number and configuration of the regions using the region's icons. You
can divide this space into columns (
)
or rows (
),
and edit the region to specify it's width (
).
When you edit a region, you can also specify how to display the
portlets within it, such as whether to display them in rows or
columns, how much space to provide around them, and whether to
include headers and borders. You can also add tabs to the region (
)
to effectively create independent pages within the page.
Note: When you apply a layout to a page, a copy of that layout is created. Any changes you subsequently make to the regions within the page affect only the copy of the layout, not the original layout.
You can control the extent to which users who view your page can modify the regions within it, if at all.