The online help system includes help topics that provide step-by-step instructions and reference information, as well as an introduction to Oracle Portal (called the Quick Tour) and troubleshooting information.
The online help system is a content area, which means it provides you with all the features you would expect from any other content area, including:
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Folders, which gather related help topics together in a single place.
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Categories, which enable you to list all the help topics of a particular type. For example, all the topics containing step-by-step instructions for how to perform tasks within a content area belong to the Content Area Tasks category.
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Perspectives, which enable you to list all the help topics that pertain to your particular job. For example, all the topics that would be of interest to a content area administrator belong to the Content Area Admin perspective.
You will also find those features that you would expect from any other help system, including:
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A search facility that enables you to find topics that contain specified words. If you have interMedia installed and an interMedia Text index has been created, the search facility performs as full text search. If you do not have interMedia installed or an interMedia Text index has not been created, the search facility searches topic titles, descriptions, and keywords for the specified words.
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An index, sorted alphabetically by keyword.
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A site map that you can use as a table of contents to view the online help system folders hierarchically.
Oracle Portal also includes field-level help, which provides specific
information about the fields on the current page. Access field-level
help by clicking 
in the page.