Creating perspectives

You create a new perspective for your content area to classify content (items and folders) by some cross-category grouping, e.g., user roles. When users edit an item or a folder, they can optionally assign perspectives to it to tell other users whether the content pertains to them. Users can then search on perspectives to display all of the content that is currently associated with the perspective.

You must be a content area or Oracle Portal administrator to create a perspective.

To create a perspective:

  1. Click to access the Navigator and then click Content Areas to go to the Content Area Navigator.

    Note: You can also get to the Content Area Navigator from the content area Administration page.

  2. Click Contents next to the name of the content area to which you want to add the perspective. If the list of content areas is very long, use Find to go directly to the desired content area.

    Note: If you want to use your perspective in multiple content areas, click Contents next to Shared Objects rather than a particular content area. You must be a portal administrator or have Manage privileges to create shared objects.

  3. Click Create next to Perspectives or, to create a child perspective, click Perspectives and click Create next to the perspective that you want to be the parent.

  4. Fill in the properties for the perspective.

  5. Click Create.

  6. You can now either click the perspective link at the top of the page to further define your new perspective, create additional perspectives, or click Close to leave the Perspective Manager and return to the Content Area Navigator.

    Note: From the editing page of the Perspective Manager you can change the perspective's name and title text, add a description, specify whether it should be made available as a portlet, and associate images with it.

Related topics

What is a perspective?
Editing perspectives
Deleting perspectives

Displaying images for perspectives
Displaying links for perspectives
Listing perspective contents