Creating a content area

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When you install Oracle Portal, a sample content area is created for you, which you can customize to meet your own requirements. A single content area may be all you need, however, Oracle Portal also enables you to create additional content areas. Maybe you want to distribute content area administration further than a single content area will allow. Or, maybe you want to have different URLs for different departments in your company: Human Resources, Information Services, Training, etc. All content areas are created in the same schema (the schema in which Oracle Portal is installed). This means that you can create content area objects, including categories, perspectives, item types, folder types, and styles, that can be shared across multiple content areas. Each content area can also have its own objects that are appropriate to it alone. For example, the Human Resources content area might have a Job Description category, whereas the Information Services content area might have a Troubleshooting category. However, both content areas can use the same shared FAQ category.

You must be the portal administrator, or have Create privileges on All Content Areas to create a content area.

To create a content area:

In the Navigator, click the Content Areas tab.

Navigate to the root path.

Click Content Area.

In the Name field, enter a name for the content area. The name is used internally only.

Note: The name must be unique, is limited to 30 characters and can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the underscore character (_); no spaces or other special characters.

In the Display Name field, enter a descriptive name for the content area. The display name is used in the Navigator and can also be displayed in the navigation bar.

Note: The display is limited to 60 characters and can include any character, including spaces.

In the Default Language list, choose the language in which to create the content area.

Note: You can make the content area available in other languages later by creating a translation.

In the Content Area Administrator field, enter the user name of the user or the name of the group to be the content area administrator. If you are not sure of the user or group name, click and select from the list provided.

Notes:

The user or group must already exist.

If you assign a group as the content area administrator, all the members of that group are granted content area administrator privileges.

Click Create.

A message is displayed at the top of the page to confirm that the content area has been created.

You can now either click the content area link in the confirmation message to further define your new content area, create additional content areas, or click Close to return to the Navigator.

Note

You can also create a content area using the Content Areas portlet, which, by default, is located on the Oracle Portal home page's Build tab.

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When you install Oracle Portal, a sample content area is created for you, which you can customize to meet your own requirements. A single content area may be all you need, however, Oracle Portal also enables you to create additional content areas. Maybe you want to distribute content area administration further than a single content area will allow. Or, maybe you want to have different URLs for different departments in your company: Human Resources, Information Services, Training, etc. All content areas are created in the same schema (the schema in which Oracle Portal is installed). This means that you can create content area objects, including categories, perspectives, item types, folder types, and styles, that can be shared across multiple content areas. Each content area can also have its own objects that are appropriate to it alone. For example, the Human Resources content area might have a Job Description category, whereas the Information Services content area might have a Troubleshooting category. However, both content areas can use the same shared FAQ category.
	You must be the portal administrator, or have Create privileges on All Content Areas to create a content area.

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