Editing components

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After you build a component, you can use options in the Oracle Portal Navigator to edit it. You can edit the most recent version of the component or an archived version. Each time you or another application developer edits and saves a component, the previous version of the component becomes an archived version.

You edit components using a collection of tabbed pages in a dialog box. Each tabbed page corresponds to a step in the wizard that created the component. Entry fields on each tabbed page contain the values that were specified during creation of the component, or by the user who last edited the component and saves the changes.

Components are locked while you edit them, preventing other users from making changes to the component. The component remains locked until you click OK in the Edit dialog box.

To edit a component, you must have Edit or higher access privileges on the component or the application that owns it.

To edit the most recent version of a component:

On the Oracle Portal Home page, click on the shortcut bar.

Click the Applications tab in the Oracle Portal Navigator.

The Name column of the Navigator displays the names of all applications in which you have privileges to edit components.

Click the name of the application that contains the component you want to edit.

Scroll to the component you want to edit. In the Action column next to the component, click Edit.

Note: Clicking Edit opens the Edit tabbed dialog for the most recent component version. You can also edit an archived version of the component.

Click one or more tabs to edit the values in the entry fields on the corresponding tab page. To access help about the entry fields on a page, click the small button.

When you finish editing entry field values on all tab pages, click OK.

The new version of the component displays as a production version in the Version(s) Status field of the Manage Component page. The version of the component you opened to edit now displays as an archived version.

(Optional) If you decide you don't want to save your edits, click Cancel.

To edit an archived version of a component:

Follow steps 1- 4 above.

In the Name column, click the component you want to edit. The Manage Component page displays.

Click one of the archived versions in the Versions(s) Status field on this page.

Follow steps 6-8 above to edit the archived version of the component.

Note

As you switch from tab page to tab page, Oracle Portal keeps track of any changes you make in the tabbed pages. Click Finish only after you've made changes on all the tab pages you want to make.