Make content area Folder Names within Portlets non-linkable fields

We would like to only allow the administrator to be allowed link to content areas so as to maintain a consistent look and feel and not allow the user to leave Portal.

Thanks for the info, however, turning off the header region also
eliminates the "customize" feature -- which is something I would
like my users to have. Also, I think you may be mistaken (or
maybe I wasn't clear) about the approval icon. It does NOT
appear when a folder is rendered through a portlet, regardless
of folder ownership. It only appears when a folder is rendered
as a page.
I am looking forward to the next release.
p.s. I see the new find feature has been added since my last
post.
John

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I use to be able to link directly to a content area or folder area by using the Folder Properties to copy the URL. Now, when I try to use this method it always takes me to my home page? I have users that want to link directly to one of their folders in a content area. Any ideas?
Thanks,
AG

1 From the Navigator click on the required Content Area
2 Click on the properties sheet icon
3 Cut and paste the URL
4 Copy the URL into an email
5 Send the email
6 Click on the link from the email
7 The link does not go directly to the folder but the home page instead
This used to work but doesn't anymore, I've tried this in another 309 instance and it works OK.

Content Area link inside a Portlet

I built a portal page titled Finance. I also created a content area titled Corporate
Finance and published it as a portlet. When I add the Corporate Finance portlet to
the page it's visible, however the portlet header link goes to a blank page. I was
hoping this link would take me directly to the Corporate Finance content area.
Thanks - Carmen

Carmen,
There patch available for this bug in metalink ( http://metalink.oracle.com ). You should find the patch in the recent portal patch list. The bug no for this patch is 1574770.

Portlet as item in content area folder?

I was wondering if anyone has thought of adding a new item type of type portlet to the folder container?
Is is possible now or coming down the road?
My problem is that I have 260 portlets that the user needs to navigate through in an artificial hierarchy of sorts. Tabs appear to work, but they are ugly when I do lots of nesting.
Any ideas?

The folder portlet offers only a subset of edit actions. We did
this to conserve space. This will be changed in the next
release of Portal, planned for December.
Regards,
Jerry

Script to get tab delimited list of folder names within a main directory

I need a script to create a tab delimited text file of the names of each folder within a specific folder. Haven't found anything...Anybody have an idea how to proceed?
Muchas gracias!

Now that I think about this a little more, I'm guessing you want two further pieces of information.
You don't want just the name of the folders, you want their path, and you want to capture subfolders as well, correct?
If that's the case, try this:
tell application "Finder"
  -- get the starting folder
  set topFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please select the top folder")
  -- get all subfolders
  set subfolders to (every folder of entire contents of topFolder as alias list)
  -- open a file to write the data to
  set myFile to (open for access file (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "folders.txt") with write permission)
  set eof myFile to 0
  -- remember our current TIDs
  set oldTID to my text item delimiters
  -- iterate through the folders
  repeat with eachFolder in subfolders
    -- break the path based on colons
    set my text item delimiters to ":"
    set folderPath to text items of (eachFolder as text)
  -- set the TIDs to a tab
    set my text item delimiters to tab
    - and convert the path to a tab-delimited string
    set tabDelimitedText to folderPath as text
    -- now write that text to the file
    write tabDelimitedText & return to myFile
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Moving items in a Content Area/folder

We're building a portal as a pilot project. I have a folder
containing several url links that are currently sorted
alphabetically. I want to specify the order, but I can't... they
don't have the "move" icon showing. How do I turn this option
on/off.
Thanks!
...Brian

In the folder where this phenomenon is seen click on..
Edit
Folder Properties
Style Tab
Link to your Style
Folder Layout Tab
Region Link (i.e. Regular Items)
Change 'Sort By' to Default
OK
OK
Blue sort arrows should have appeared.

Show source folder name within Aperture

Is it possible, within Aperture, to see where the actual image is stored on my hard drive? ie, the path and folder structure?
I would think it would be an option when the bottom viewer is set up to show the columns of text (rather than images)...
Or an option within File Info.
But I'm not seeing it.
Thanks

File>Manage Referenced Images... will show the file paths, but you can't see it via normal metadata.
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How to portlets in to content area folders

hi everybody,
i need to add portlets into the content area folder.
Like, how we add portlets into pages(add portlet link).
is that possible? It is very urgent for me.
becz. i developed application using pages at first.
so that i can create user wise portlets,that means, one page for
all my users. but portlets display will vary according to the
privilegs.now i need the same thing in content area.
pl. help me ASAP!
thanks in adv.
Kathir

Portlets can be added to the content area page. You can edit
this page under Content Area Properties. Note that the content
area page does not have all the functionality of a portal page -
for example, it doesn't support tabs and you can't define a
style.
In the next release of Portal, content area folders and pages
will be merged. The merged folder/page can be used for both
portlets and items.
Regards,
Jerry

Exp/Imp content Area Portlet..?

How to Exp/Imp "Content area folder published as a portlet" which reside in "WWSBR_SITEBUILDER_PROVIDER".
Anybody from Oracle..?
Thanks.
Rakesh

I assume you are using the 309 version of portal. It is possible to export out an entire content area or a page but not the granular items. By granular I mean just the folder in this context. If you wish to export/import the entire content area/page, you can run the pageexp/pageimp/contexp/contimp scripts which reside in the WWU directory.

Folder Content Listed in Content Area

I understand that this is an issue that was fixed from a previous version, but I will give it a shot anyway.
I would like to direct the folder content to open in the "content" area NOT in the portlet when I select a folder, but apparently this was something that was fixed in 3.0.8. Does anyone know if there is a way to get it back the old way?

Hi Dharam,
This can be achieved by selecting the object types (eg Folders, Documents, Bookmarks, Notes etc) that you want to use in a collaboration.
If you are a cFolders administrator, you can define which object types are to be used across the entire system on the General tab page under cFolders Administration.
If you are not a cFolders administrator but have administration authorization for a collaboration, you can change this default setting for the relevant collaboration. To do this, proceed as follows:
Go to the collaboration detail screen and choose Object Types. A list of all object types appears. By default, the objects that have been selected under cFolders Administration are already selected. You can select the objects that have not been selected under cFolders Administration as required.
Change this selection if necessary. You can select exactly those object types that you want to be used in your collaboration. The system-wide default is not affected by this.
Regards
Deepak

Full folder names don't show.

In iOS, file/folder names are shortened when they cannot be displayed in one line. However, viewing a folder name within a folder still shows its shortened name. The expected result is that it should show its full, non-shortened name.
"Cloud File Managers" is the full name of the folder.
Hopefully this gets resolved.

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Content area white header space...How to suppress?

I have developed all of my content areas, published them as portlets and placed them on my portal pages. However, there is about an inch of white space at the top of each portlet; thus, causing formatting issues and forcing the user to scroll to see all of the text that would have fit onto one page if these whitespace areas were not present. Can anyone tell me how to "get rid" of this whitespace? I know when I go into the Content area to modify my content pages, the whitespace is present there. Whey I click on "Edit Folder" to make changes, the nav tools appear in that "whitespace". Makes sense at there, but I do not want space used on my portal pages to accomodate this.
Also, when using a URL service as one of my portlets, the whitespace is not present; thus, causing my regions that are not URL service portlets to be mis-aligned with the URL service portlet.
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Cathy Hohenberger

Is there anyway I can attach screen shot to show what I mean by my question?
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Diff between regular portal page and content area page?

Hi.
I have a content area page. Because I thought it would be nice to have "Edit Page" link on the page, I created a new portal page (yes, a portal page vs. a content area page).
I created 2 regions.
Region 1, portlet nav bar portlet from my content area.
Region 2, root folder from my content area
When I use the page, clicking on anything in the nav bar portlet takes me to a new page (my content area page), instead of updating the folder portlet on my new portal page.
Is this by design?
What the difference between a portal page and a content area folder?
Thanks a bunch!
Phillip

Phillip,
The two are indeed subtly different. The experts are on the content area forum but basically a content area page is designed to automatically provide easy navigation within a content area. This includes automatically "doing the right thing" for the navbar portlets.
Note the links on the navbar portlet and their respective targets. They always target the content area page so that the navigation in a content area is seamless (i.e. the middle region updates w/ the current folder).
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How to pass variable to content area from a PL/SQL procedure

Hi,
Can somebody tell me how to create a(Content area) folder based on a PL/SQL procedure that takes a variable as a
parameter and returns data based on value of that parameter to the folder . Any help would be appreciated .
Thanks and regards.
Neeti.

Somewhere, in one procedure, build a session identifier and save your variable there. If no session with that identifier is previously stored, it will create a new session instance with that ID for you.
declare
l_sess portal30.wwsto_api_session;
varvalue number;
begin
varvalue := 100;
l_sess := portal30.wwsto_api_session.load_session('MYSESSION','VARIABLES');
l_sess.set_attribute('VAR_NAME',varvalue);
l_sess.save_session;
end;
In your other procedure, or anywhere else needed within that same session, simply load the session and reference the variable. To reference the variable, use the following.
-- assuming new procedure, so re-defining session variable and reloading session into it
declare
my_session portal30.wwsto_api_session;
my_new_variable number;
begin
my_session := portal30.wwsto_api_session.load_session('MYSESSION','VARIABLES');
my_new_variable := my_session.get_attribute_as_number('VAR_NAME');
end;
This will let you reference parameters across multiple portal applications and indirect calls.

Update Folder Name in Itunes after altering Folder Name in Windows Explorer

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Make content area Folder Names within Portlets non-linkable fields

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