Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

Exercises

Most of the time, when OracleAS Portal Pages are created, page designers will want to create them from an existing template to ensure consistency. One of the really nice features of OracleAS Portal is the ability to convert a page into a template. The exercises in this chapter will focus on creating a page for our dashboard application. We will then convert that page into a template that can be used to create other pages.

Exercise 1: Edit the root page so that is has a basic look and feel for all of our subsequent pages. Take a good look at the page and see how it compares to other Web pages you have worked with, either internally in ...