Access your portal page. Your path should be Path: Page Groups > <YourName> Oracle By Example > Pages.

Click the Edit link to the right of the <YourName> OBE Home Page link.

Note: If you are not using the Web Clipping portlet, which is readily available, and have installed the Web Clipping portlet in another OracleAS Portal instance, then you could locate your Web Clipping portlet in the Portlet Staging Area. By default, all the newly registered providers and portlets are available in the Portlet Staging Area in the Portlet Repository.

You need to specify the address to the clipped content.

Enter http://portalcenter.oracle.com in the URL Location field.

The Web Clipping Studio tool is invoked. The Web Clipping Studio provides the following three modes:

You will now see the Portal Center home page within the studio, similar to a standard Web browser. You can also navigate to other pages by using the hyperlinks on the page.

Now, you will clip a section from the Portal Center home page. In the top-right corner of the Web Clipping Studio page, click the Section link. This divides the target Web page into its clippable sections.

Note: If the Portal Center site has changed drastically, please choose any section of the Portal Center page to clip.

You can increase the granularity of the clippable sections by clicking the Zoom In button on the Web Clipping Studio toolbar. The Zoom Out button decreases the granularity of the clippable sections.

Now, set properties for this Web clipping.

Select Inline for the URL Rewriting field. This option rewrites all URLs within the portlet to point back to Portal so that all browsing within the Web Clipping Portlet remains within Portal.

Enter Clipped Content from Portal Center in the Description field.

You can see the clipped content published on your Web Clipping portlet.

When the source of your Web clipping changes, your Web clipping portlet will also reflect the changes automatically.

Enter http://oraclestore.oracle.com in the URL Location field.

Click the English link below United States. The Oracle Store Web page for United States is displayed within the Web Clipping Studio.

Note: Some Web sites generate images at run time, therefore, some images may not appear in the Web Clipping Studio but will render in the portlet.

Click Section. This divides the target Web page into its clippable sections.

Note: The Web Clipping Studio discards any browsing operations that do not contribute to the eventual content for the Web Clipping portlet.

Click the Choose icon to the left of the page above the Results text.

A preview of the clipped content containing the search results is displayed.

Click Select to confirm the section that you want to clip.

Select None from the URL Rewriting list. This option does not rewrite the URL link. Therefore, any action performed within the portlet will take you out of OracleAS Portal into the clipped content Web site.

Clicking any links within the clipped content will refresh the portal page to display the traversed page content.

Enter Clipped Web content from Oracle Store in the Description field.

Change the value in the Time Out (seconds) field to 30.

The timeout value is useful when the source site is down and the portlet times out in a reasonable amount of time rather than waiting indefinitely. You can set the portlet timeout value in seconds to specify the waiting time for the portlet to render the clipped content on the portal page.

You can specify the portlet content expiry time in minutes.

Change the value in the Expires (minutes) field to 10. This allows the portlet to use the current clipped content for 10 minutes without querying the source Web page again, thereby improving the time taken to render the portal page.

The Web clipping can be made parameterizable, so that page viewers can customize their own views of this Web clipping. You can also fill in some default values for these parameters. Because the content displayed in the portlet was reached by entering information in a form, you can customize the parameters used by that form.

Enter the following in the Parameterize Input section

• Select the Click to start parameterizing check box.

• Choose kw from the Parameters list to specify the keyword term to be searched.

• Select Param1 in the Customizable check box so that a portal user can enter custom values for the portlet parameter.

• Enter Search for Product in the Display Name field.

• Leave the Default Value as portal.

Note: You can link each customizable parameter in the Web Clipping portlet with the page parameters.

In the Inputs section, enter wireless in the Search for Product field.

The Web Clipping portlet displays the list of wireless products available in Oracle Store in the United States.

Now, any new product added to Oracle Store will be reflected in your Web Clipping portlet. This shows that the Web Clipping portlet is not just a screen-scraping tool, but also publishes the content dynamically.

Note: If you are not able to see SSO Server Administration portlet in your Administer page, then log in to OracleAS Portal using orcladmin login credentials. Enter the username as orcladmin and the appropriate password.

The Create External Application page is displayed.

Provide the necessary configuration information in the External Application Login section to register the external application as shown in the table below:

The value specified in the Application Name field is displayed in the External Applications portlet.

Select the type of authentication method used as POST.

The authentication method specifies how your browser sends the message data. The POST method submits the login credentials within the body of the form and posts the data to the single sign-on server.

Click OK.

Click the My Yahoo Application link in the Edit/Delete External Application section.

The Login - My Yahoo Application page is displayed.

In the External Application Login section, enter your username and password to test your credentials with Yahoo! application.

Ensure that the Remember My Login Information For This Application check box is selected.

Click Login.

You can see the My Yahoo! page displayed. You could see that you are logged in to the Yahoo! application.

Close this window.

Click Close to close your Administer External Applications page.

Click the Navigator link on the top right of the page.

Click the Providers tab.

Click the Registered Providers link.

Click the Provider link to register a new Web provider.

The Register Provider page is displayed. Enter the following details in the Provider Information section:

Click Next.

Enter the Web Clipping Provider URL in the URL field.

The URL format is <host computer>:<port>portalTools/webClipping/providers/webClipping.

Click the option button to enable external application authentication and select the My Yahoo Application link using the External Application ID List of Values (LOV) icon.

In the User/Session Information section, click the User option button to send user-specific information to the provider.

Select Once Per User Session from the Login Frequency list.

Make sure that you have specified the correct proxy settings in the Proxy Settings section of the page.

Click Finish.

Click OK to complete the Web provider registration.

Now, you will add the Web Clipping portlet to your page.

Click the Page Groups tab.

Access your portal page. Your path should be Path: Page Groups > <YourName> Oracle By Example > Pages.

Click the Edit link to the right of <YourName> OBE Home Page link.

Ensure the Personal tab is selected.

Click the Portlet Staging Area link.

Click the My Yahoo Web Clipping provider link.

Select the Web Clipping Portlet link to move it to the Selected Portlets section.

Click OK to return to the portal page. The Web Clipping portlet is added to your portal page.

Click the Layout link to switch to the Layout Edit mode of the page.

Click the Edit Defaults link for the Web Clipping portlet that you just added.

Alternatively, you can click the Edit icon for the Web Clipping portlet in the Graphical Edit mode also.

You can see the http://my.yahoo.com address in the URL Location field.

You are automatically logged in to Yahoo! application using the login credentials that you provided in the External Application Login section.

Scroll down the My Yahoo! window.

Click the Check Email link in the Message Center window in the left.

You can see your Yahoo! mailbox. Click the Section link in the top-right corner of the screen to divide this Web page into its clippable sections.

Click the icon above the mailbox folders section in the left. You can preview the clipped content.

Click the Select link in the top-right corner of the page to choose this Web clipping.

Specify then properties for the Web Clipping portlet as shown in the following table:

Note: If you choose to have the URL rewriting set to Inline, then all browsing that takes place inside of the portlet will stay within the portlet.

Click OK.

You can see the clipped content published on your Web Clipping portlet.

Scroll down the page. You can access you Yahoo! Mail from your Web Clipping portlet.

Click the Inbox link in the My Yahoo! Mail portlet.

You can see your Inbox content rendered within the Web Clipping portlet. When the source of your Web clipping changes, your Web clipping portlet will also reflect the changes automatically.

Click the Back link on your portlet header.

Now, click the Edit link to return to the Edit mode of the page.