Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g: Build Portals With Spaces NEW

Today's organizations seek to maximize the productivity of both individual contributors and teams. To that end, enterprises are seeking an integrated environment that exploits the creativity and intellect of every user and group. Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces (11.1.1.6) supports the development of virtual workspaces in which people work together in social networks, supported by a set of intuitive services that enable a wide range of users to come together and share information and interactions.

In this course, you learn to effectively use Spaces to create a unified work environment. You learn how to create and administer group spaces to bring people together in a virtual, dynamic environment for ongoing interaction and information sharing, organized around an area of interest or a common goal.

Learn To:

• Create pages for your personal work environment to organize and manage all the information you need in your enterprise role
• Create and manage an online business community organized around a common goal or area of interest
• Display and manage documents and files in a content repository
• Share and collaborate on team content
• Link related components such that their contents are synchronized based upon the context
• Quickly assemble your business network

Audience

• Technical Consultant
• Sales Consultants
• Project Manager
• End Users
• Technical Administrator

Course Topics Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• About evolution of the Web
• Applying Web Trends in the Enterprise
• Introducing the Course Application
• What is WebCenter Portal: Spaces?
• Discussing Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture
• Discussing WebCenter Framework
• Discussing WebCenter Services
• Discussing Oracle Composer

Getting Started with WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Becoming Familiar with the Spaces Interface
• About Your Home Space
• Setting Personal Preferences
• Working with Favorites
• About Shared Spaces

Building Pages

• Working with Pages
• About Page Types
• Managing Pages
• Creating Pages
• About Oracle Composer
• Adding Content and the Resource catalog
• Enhancing Your Home Space
• Personalizing and Customizing Page Content

Personalizing Pages and Personalization Scenarios

• What is Personalization?
• Discussing Personalization concepts
• What are Personalization Scenarios
• Describing El expressions and personalization scenarios

Creating a Space

• What is a (shared) Space?
• Introducing the Role of Space Moderator
• Building a Space
• About Group Templates
• Managing Space Membership
• Managing Roles and Permissions
• Granting Public Access
• Discovering and Joining Spaces

Displaying content using Documents Service and Content Presenter

• About Documents Service
• Managing Content
• Searching Documents
• Adding Document Library Content to a Page
• What is Content Presenter?
• About Content Presenter Display Templates
• Displaying a Single Content Item in a Variety of Ways
• Displaying a Multiple Content Item in a Variety of Ways

Facilitating Communication

• Sharing Ideas and Knowledge: Discussion Forums
• Integrating the Discussions Service
• Accessing Forums and Topics
• Linking a Discussion Thread to a Related Document
• Discussing Instant Messaging and Presence
• Posting Announcements

People Connections

• Introducing People Connections
• About People Connections Task Flows
• Using Profile Components
• Working with Connections
• Posting and Viewing Feedback
• Message Board
• Explaining Activity Stream
• Setting People Connection Preferences

Managing Project Details: Events, Wikis, Blogs, and Lists

• Introducing the Events Service
• Scheduling an Event
• Displaying Multiple Calendars
• Creating Wiki Pages
• Creating Blog Entries
• Introducing the Lists Service
• Creating Lists
• Defining the Structure of Custom Lists

Finding Content

• Introducing the Search Service
• Setting Preferences for Search Results
• Running a Global Search
• Saving a Search
• Introducing the Tags Service
• About the Tag Center
• Tagging a Page
• Tagging Documents

Incorporating Active Components

• What are Active Components?
• How to Use Active Components
• Discussing Active Component Properties
• About Parameters
• Revisiting Task Flows
• What is a Portlet?
• Understanding Portlet Producers
• Creating Enterprise Mashups

Wiring Components

• Discussing EL Expressions
• About Events
• About Page Parameters
• Creating Page Parameters
• Wiring Components
• Working with Navigational Parameters
• About the Parameter Forms and Display Portlets
• Customizing the Parameter Forms and Display Portlets

Working with Navigation in Spaces

• About navigation models
• Rendering navigation
• Creating navigation models
• Managing navigation models
• Implementing navigation models

Course Objectives

• Describe the difference between personalization and customization
• Control group space membership
• Manage roles and permissions
• Create, track, and manage project milestones and deliverables
• Describe social technology and the benefits it brings to the enterprise
• Describe portal and collaborative spaces concepts and technologies.
• Create pages and use Oracle Composer to populate, edit, and configure pages and page content at run time
• Create, configure, and manage a space
• List the WebCenter Services and describe the ways they can be included in Spaces
• Wire components to display correlated information
• Add and configure task flows to integrate documents, discussions, and search functionality to your group space
• Configure page components using properties
• Integrate and manage content from a content repository