Creating a search folder

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When adding a folder to a content area, you must first choose a distinct folder type before specifying the folder attributes. With search folders, you can create a folder based on an Oracle Portal content area search and create different views of the content for different audiences. For example, each category and perspective can be presented on the Content Area Map as a simple search folder. The search criteria is saved and executed each time the folder is rendered.

You must be logged on as the content area administrator or higher. After the folder is created, you can grant folder owner privileges to any other user or group.

To create a search folder:

Note: If you are in the folder area in which you want to create a folder and are in Edit mode, click Create Folder from the folder dashboard. Continue from step 3 below.

In the Navigator, click the Content Areas tab.

Navigate to the appropriate path:

Create

Path

Action

Parent Folder (level 1)

Path: Content Areas > Name of Content Area

Next to the Folders container, in the Actions column, click Create to display the Folder Wizard.

Sub-folder (level 2)

Path: Content Areas > Name of Content Area > Folders

Next to the appropriate sub-folder, in the Actions column, click Create to display the Folder Wizard.

Note: If you do not see the folder that you want to work with, this means that you have not been granted the appropriate folder access privileges. See your content area administrator to request folder access.

From the Folder Type list, select Search.

Click Next.

In the Name field, enter a name to be used internally by the product.

Notes:

The Name must be unique within the content area, and is limited to 60 characters. The name can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the underscore (_) character. Do not use spaces or other special characters.

If you are using direct access URLs to access folders, do not edit the Name as this change's the object's path and may cause your path link to break.

In the Display Name field, enter a name (limited to 256 characters) for the folder's link text which appears on the Navigator and throughout the product.

Choose the category to which the folder belongs. A folder must belong to a category, and can belong to only one category.

Click Next.

Choose the search operator and the search words to specify how to match words in the content area with the search words. For example, choosing Contains All, searches for content that contains all the search words.

Click Finish.

The Navigator re-appears with your newly-created folder reflected in the Name column.

Notes

Although, Oracle Portal lets you create as many folder levels as you want, try to keep the number of sub-folders to a minimum to avoid having to click several levels to reach your destination folder.

To customize the folder properties, see Editing a folder.

You can also extend these folder types by creating folder attributes to permit search and group by functionality across multiple types of content, store additional information about folders or to pass information to procedures. See "Adding attributes to a folder type."

For a listing of all folders in a given content area, click the Folder link from the Content Area Administration page or Content Area Map.

If you are creating a sub-folder (a folder nested in a parent folder) that you want to make public to all users of the content area, make sure that the parent folder is also displayed to public users. Otherwise, the parent folder won't be displayed and the sub-folder will be moved to the top of the hierarchy in the Content Area Map. This can be confusing for end users.

If you want a navigation bar to display with a folder, you can assign a navigation bar.

You can choose another page to apply to the content area. The page controls the portlets you want displayed in the page regions.

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When adding a folder to a content area, you must first choose a distinct folder type before specifying the folder attributes. With search folders, you can create a folder based on an Oracle Portal content area search and create different views of the content for different audiences. For example, each category and perspective can be presented on the Content Area Map as a simple search folder. The search criteria is saved and executed each time the folder is rendered.
	You must be logged on as the content area administrator or higher. After the folder is created, you can grant folder owner privileges to any other user or group.

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What is a folder? What are folder types? Creating a custom folder type Applying a style to a folder Assigning a folder owner	Setting up the search feature Interpreting search results Performing a basic search Performing an advanced search Saving a search Re-using a saved search Search tips Setting up interMedia Text searching