Integration of applications in Content Areas

Theres an issue related with the Content Areas and applications.
Some contents are inside applications that we have developed and not in Oracle portal.
Q: How can we include these applications in the built in Content Areas?
Must we write application who combine both world?

Hi,
If your content is accessible by URL, you can use create URL Link items in the content area.
If your content is stored in an Oracle DB (other than the Portal DB), you can use Database links to connect both DBs.
Without knowing more about your contents,
Hope this helps
Pedro das Neves
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Hello,
Since this issue is mainly related to iTextSharp which belongs to third-party, I would recommend you consider posting this issue on its support website to get help.
Maybe the following forum will help.
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We're just starting to use content areas for real document management, and I was hoping someone could offer some advice on the layout of one or more of these content areas.
I'm trying to build a typical corporate "Document Library". Parts of the library will be available to "Public" corporate users (corporate users who have not logged on to the app yet), other parts will be available to all authenticated users, and other parts will be available to only certain groups. (Relatively easy so far...)
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I know how to do all this via the PDK, but we're trying to use as much of the built-in content-management tools as possible instead of building more PDK-based code.
btw: We are still in Portal 3.0.8, although we're moving to 3.0.9 as soon as possible.
Sorry for the length of the post, but any insight anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated!
- Bill

Hi All
We are using release 2, and we are looking into using a page template containing a JSP portlet for a consistent navigation bar/header. What do you think of this approach?
Regards
Harry
Jon,
There are a variety of ways to do this:
One way is to modify the page that the content area is on to contain the portlets that you would like on your page. Those portlets would contain your banners, links, logos, etc. Note that the page under a content area can not contain tabs.
Another way to do this is to create separate pages and link to those pages from your navigation bar manually.
Note that in release 2 of Oracle9iAS Portal we have combined the content area and page concepts so that there is no more 'drill out of the portal page' loss of context, so you could use Oracle9i Application Release 2 also.
Rich

URGENT : On clicking back button of IE error message in the content area

Hi all,
On clicking of a link in my navigation area KM folders are displayed in the content area via a KM iview. On 1st level navigation in this iView and clicking the explorer back button there is no problem. But if we navigate to inner folders and click on back button I get a warning in the Content Area:
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To resubmit your information and view this Web page, click the Refresh button."
This is not the case when I navigate through Bread Crumb.
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Please reply soon.
Thanks and Regards,
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I am pretty sure that nothing can be done about this. A Lot of other websites/applications also have this same problem. You try playing with the browser cache settings so that the back button doesn't try and get the page from the cache. You could also try and experiment with the cache-control and expires HTTP headers, to see whether this has any effect.
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