How to create a page & portlet

Question

Hi
I am new to Oracle portal. i am using Oracle 3.0.
i am working on an application in portal. i have created n number of forms, reports, dynamic pages, menus, sub menus & lovs etc. currently i access my application in a raw manner. first login , then go to the navigator link then applications & click on menu.
my menu is a single entry point to my application. how can i publish this. i.e what i want to do is the moment user logs in he should straight away get the menu view.
I have read there is something by which we can create pages & publish them.
Could someone tell me how to create a page where i can drop my components such as menu , forms & reports on to it & then create a complete portal.
I can see a create page in my oracle portal but the moment i try to add a portlet in that page it gives me option for adding an appliction only what i want to add is the componenets(such as menus, forms etc) residing inside my application.
what it gives me is 2 options 1 to edit & the other to navigate the application only, here i can see my components but cannot include them in my page.
Kindly reply
Regards
Sushant

Answer 1

You can create a page and add application components to it as portlets. The first step to do this is to go to the application and check the publish as portlet check box. Then go to each component that you want to publish and check the publish as portlet box. Once you do that, you create a page and click add portlet (in edit mode). This will give you the portlet repository. Your application should show up as a provider and each component that you checked will show up as a portlet.