Changing a user's personal preferences

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You can specify preferences for a user to control various aspects of Oracle Portal for that user.

You must be the portal administrator to change another user's personal preferences.

To change a user's personal preferences:

  1. In the Users portlet, enter the user name of the user whose personal preferences you want to change in the Name field. If you are not sure of the user name, click and select from the list provided.

    By default, the Users portlet is located on the Oracle Portal home page's Administer tab.

  2. Click Edit.

  3. Click Preferences.

  4. Select Display User In Directory to include this user in the portal directory.

  5. Select Create Personal Folder to create a personal folder in which the user can store and share content.

    Note: This check box is displayed only if this user does not already have a personal folder.

  6. In the Default Group field, enter the name of the group to use to determine preferences such as the user's default home page. If you are not sure of the group name, click and select from the list provided.

    Notes:

    • The user must be a member of the group you specify.

    • The user's personal preferences override the default group preferences.

  7. Click next to the Default Home Page field and select a default home page for this user by clicking Set as Default next to the page. The default home page is the page displayed when the user clicks .

    Note: If you select a default home page here, it overrides the default home page of the user's default group.

  8. In the Notification By list, choose how the user receives workflow notifications.

Notification By

User receives workflow notifications as

Plain Text E-mail With An HTML Attachment

A message sent to the user's e-mail account with full details of the notification in an attached HTML file.

HTML-formatted E-mail

An HTML-formatted message sent to the user's e-mail account containing full details of the notification.

Plain Text E-mail

A plain text message sent to the user's e-mail account containing full details of the notification.

Web-based Notification Only

A notification in the Notifications portlet.

Plain Text Summary E-mail

A plain text message sent to the user's e-mail account containing a summary of the notification with a notification in the Notifications portlet containing the full details.

    Note: This field is displayed only if Oracle Workflow is installed.

  1. Click OK.

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Changing a user's personal details

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