Following are the known issues in the installation of Oracle Portal:
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If users are having trouble logging in, the Portal administrator should refer to the troubleshooting section of the Oracle Portal 3.0 Configuration Guide. |
If you set up your Internet Explorer 5 browser to have the highest possible security, then you may experience problems in displaying the Oracle Portal public home page. You may need to reduce the security setting in Internet Explorer 5 to see the Oracle Portal home page. You can change your security settings from the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog in Internet Explorer. |
The official product name for Oracle Portal is now Oracle9i Application Server Portal. Within the documentation, you will continue to see the shortened product name, Oracle Portal, merely for the sake of brevity. |
For white papers, demonstrations, a tutorial, documented examples, and our latest documentation, please visit the Oracle Technology Network and go to the Documentation section for Oracle Portal. |
For information on the products and services provided by Oracle Portal partners, please visit the Portal Partner Initiatives section of www.oracle.com. |
New security model for public database objects The PUBLIC schema is set only if the portal user belongs to the database administrator (DBA) group. The Grant Access link is implemented for the PUBLIC schema and behaves just as it does for any other schema. Actions on the PUBLIC objects can only be performed by users who have the MANAGE privilege on the PUBLIC schema. New component types Two new application component types have been added for this release:
Page templates You can create a page template that can be used for pages as well as applications in this release. Under Shared Components, you can create an unstructured page template that can be applied to your pages. Enhanced menu security The new security model in menus allows you to have privileges inherited by all of the menu items from the component. If you do not want menu items to inherit privileges from the component, you can specify privileges individually for each menu item. Subitems will inherit the privileges of their parent items. At runtime, users who do not have privileges on items will see the menu without those items. Alignment of menus You can use any alignment (center, left, or right) for application menus in portlet or full-page mode. Enhanced calendar component The calendar component has the following enhancements:
Styles for Portlet Show Mode For application components, you can set the font, size, and color to be used when displaying in a portlet. This feature makes it easier to enhance the display of your application within a portlet. Portlet spacing You can now specify the spacing between portlets in a region, and the spacing between the portlets and the boundaries of the region. This feature gives you much finer control over the appearance of your pages. Page style caching Portal page styles can now also be cached in the same manner as Portal page metadata and page content on the middle tier. Portal Page Styles can be cached using either time-based or validation-based caching. Caching options can be specified on the first page of the Page Style Wizard. Portlet header style enhancements In portlet headers, you can now specify either round and/or square corners on the left, right, or both edges. Borders on tabbed areas To enhance browser display performance in the Netscape browser, the border around a tabbed area has been removed. |
To facilitate moving to Release 3.0 from previous versions of Oracle Portal (previously known as WebDB), upgrade scripts will be provided on the Oracle Technology Network along with documentation on how to use them. |
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When using an 8.1.6 version of the database on Windows NT, if you specify either of the following options, a database crash can occur:
This problem is fixed in 8.1.7 and 8.1.6.2 of the database. |
The following restrictions apply to the names of documents that you are uploading into the repository:
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The following are the known limitations for the Portal Development Kit:
The Portal Development Kit is updated regularly and can be downloaded from the Oracle Technology Network. |
Distributed providers support for providers created using the Application Builder is not available in this release. |
When exporting and importing applications, pages, and content areas, you can also export and import the associated page and security information (username, password, access control list). This functionality is useful for preserving the security privileges and page(s) during the export and import process. When running the appropriate Oracle Portal export or import script, you can apply the -security and/or -page switches. For example, on Solaris you can run the scripts as follows:
where
-s <portal_schema> Notes:
See also: For complete information, see "Exporting and importing in Oracle Portal" Help topic in the Oracle Portal Online Help Content Area. |
The following are known limitations for forms applications:
For more information on updatable views, refer to the Oracle8i documentation.
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The image for tables in the recent objects portlet is missing. Users can copy table.gif to rtable.gif in their image directory to fix the problem. |
The Image Enhanced Charting feature is Beta in this release. To enable it, click the Administer tab on the Portal Home page and click Global Settings. On the Global Settings page, check Image Charts From Query Wizard. |
Center alignment of tabs within a page region is not supported for this release. |