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The advanced features in Oracle Portal content areas provide great
flexibility for customizing the structured data, security, and
display of content items. You can create
content areas that become extensive repositories of secured,
collaborative information dynamically displayed to users in a wide
range of layouts.
As a content area administrator you are
responsible for setting up the new content area
so that your content contributors can perform self-service content
publishing tasks such as adding and editing items. In addition to
performing the numerous tasks that a
content area administrator typically needs to perform when setting up
a new content area, you can also customize the content area home page.
The content area's home page is actually the content area's root
folder. Customizing the root folder, then, is just like customizing
any other folder. Here are a few pointers to get you started.
To customize a content area's home page:
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Choose or customize a content area page to apply to the home page. A
content area page is a special type of page that establishes a common
look and feel for every folder in a content area. Content area pages
help you improve the usability of your content area by providing
persistent access to frequently used services and navigation tools.
See Choosing a content area page or Creating
a content area page.
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Because the root folder establishes the content area's theme, you may
want to change the root folder display name to something more
meaningful. For example, for a travel content area, you might choose
the display name, "Travel". You can change the root
folder's display name from the Folder Manager: Main page. See Changing
a folder's required properties.
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Edit the folder properties to control the home page's graphical
images (Image tab), choose a style to apply to your root folder
(Style tab), and also choose a navigation bar to apply to your root
folder (Navigation Bar tab). See Changing a
folder's image and Editing navigation bars.
Note: Although the Navigation Bar tab allows you to specify
which elements and links appear in the navigation bar, the text of
those links is actually controlled elsewhere. See Changing
the appearance of link text.
If you want logged on users to have access to a subset of the
administrative functions, be sure to include the Administration link
on the navigation bar.
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Use the Style Manager to determine the content area home page's
overall appearance—that is, the navigation bar, banners, and
content area elements. For more information, see What
is a style?
Notes:
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You must be logged on as a content area administrator, style
administrator, or folder owner with
the appropriate style privilege to create or edit a style.
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As the content area administrator, you decide if you want every
folder in the content area to have the same appearance as the content
area home page, or if individual folder owners have control over
which style to apply to a folder. See Revoking
style privileges from folder owners.
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Add category and perspective links on the navigation bar. See Editing
navigation bars.
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Organize items to display as groups below category banners. See Displaying
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