Navigating Content Area on Page

I want to create a page with a folder within column 2 of my page.
In column 1, I want a navigation bar. I would like to select a
category or perspective from the navigation bar, and have the
content in column 2 (the folder) updated automatically.
Does anyone know how to do this?
If this isn't possible, are there ways to emulate the process, so
it appears to the user that there is an automatic refresh?

I am trying to do this under Tabs. How do I link to a subpage
and keep that subpage within the main page tabs? I have the
navigation portlet that will open the subpage, but it opens it
up outside of the main page.
Thanks for any help,
Amy
You can do this with a custom navigation portlet or a template
that provides a list of categories and/or perspectives (use the
views WWSBR_ALL_CATEGORIES and WWSBR_ALL_PERSPECTIVES to
construct the list). When the user selects a category or
perspective, go to a page that contains the corresponding
category or perspective portlet.
This means creating a page for every category and perspective.
If you use proper naming conventions, your custom navigation
portlet can dynamically construct a direct access URL to the
right page
(e.g. "http://myserver/pls/myDAD/url/page/mycategory1",
where "mycategory1" is the name of the page containing the
mycategory1 portlet).
Regards,
Jerry

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Is there a way to exporte pages and/or content areas from Portal? Is so how can i do it?
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Pedro,
Please read the white paper on export/import.
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Exporting content areas/pages

Help please!!
I have created content areas and pages on the Oracle's hosted portal demo site and need to export them to our own server.. Can anyone advise on how this process is done and if its possible? your help is appreciated...
thanks

Hy, there is a white paper about export import.
But here comes how to do it:
in $ORACLE_HOME\portal30\admin\plsql\wwu, you can find the import export utilities:
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- pageexp.cmd
also the import utilities are here. Use all the parameters in the same order as they come in the example (just type in contexp when you are in the right directory). Do the same for pages. Use -security options if you want to keep the security and the same for contexp with his own -page option. This should be done if you changed the page of the content area. They make a security.dmp and a pobpage.dmp in the current directory ($ORACLE_HOME\portal30\admin\plsql\wwu). If you export 2 content area's don't forget that the -page & -security option will overwrite the pobpage.dmp and security.dmp file, so it will be better to do the export import immediatly after each other. Or copy the files after the export.
Very important is to check the portlets from the content area's if they exist. If you have a portlet provider in the content area and the portlet repository doesn't show that (refresh in the repository can help) then the corresponding portlets in pages will be deleted.
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Advice on content area layout & subfolders

Hi all!
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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1. Does it make sense to break out the PUBLIC and CORPORATE folders at the very top level, or are do people generally put the private folders as subfolders of the corresponding public ones? (Ideally I'd rather put these both into the same folder and simply show more documents once the user logs on, but I couldn't get this working properly.)
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4. Is there any straightforward way to display the same document in more than one folder? If I use perspectives, it looks like I then give up control over how the page gets formatted, if I use a Folder Link, the folder opens up in its own page instead of inside the portal area, and if I use a URL to point the "second" copy back to the first, this will be difficult for later content managers to maintain. Am I missing another easy way to do this?
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?
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Jon,
There are a variety of ways to do this:
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Rich

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