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Welcome to the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server!

The WebLogic Personalization Server (WLPS) lets you create personalized e-Commerce sites with content customized to users based on user profiles and business rules you define. What this means for your e-Commerce enterprise is a flexible, personalized, dynamic Web presence that listens and responds to your customers and partners based on what you define as important factors. Get started now employing the power of dynamic, rules-based, custom Web content!


 

Overview of the Personalization Server

What is the Personalization Server?

Property Set Management

Personalization Advisor

User Management

Content Management

Rules Management

Portal Management

 

Creating and Managing Portals

Introduction to Portal Development

What is the difference between a portal and a portlet?

More about Personalization Server portals and portlets

Portal-to-Go

Portal personalization

The Acme Demo Portal

How to create a portal

Where to get more information

Getting Started with the BEA WebLogic Portal

Running the Portal-to-Go

Jar files

Developing Portlets

What is a portlet?

Creating a portlet application

Using example portlets

Portlet JSP example

Creating and Administering Portals

Setting Up

Set the WebLogic Server document root

Configure the portal service manager to control portal access

Create a portal web site directory under the server document root

Logging On to the Portal Administration Tool

Using the Portal Administration Tool

Administering portlets

Administering portals

Administering portal groups

Testing Your Portal

Creating a Portal Using the Demo Portal

Building the Acme Demo Portal components

Creating portlets for your demo portal

Associating portlets with your demo portal

Editing your demo portal layout

Editing your demo portal color scheme

Testing Your Demo Portal

BEA WebLogic Portal Framework Files

Internationalization

Properties Files

Static Text

Constructed Messages

 

Creating and Managing Property Sets

Overview of Property Sets

Property Value Retrieval via ConfigurableEntity

Using the Property Set Management Tool

Creating Property Sets

Creating Properties within a Property Set

Editing Property Sets

Editing Properties within a Property Set

Deleting Property Sets

Deleting Properties

 

Creating and Managing Users

Overview of User Management

Users and Groups

Unified User Profiles

Configuration 1

Configuration 2

Configuration 3

Configuration 4

Using WebLogic Realms

Anonymous User Profiles

User Manager

Using the User Management Tool

Creating groups

Deleting groups

Adding users to groups

Removing users from groups

Editing group property values

Creating users

Editing user property values

Deleting users

Creating Unified Profile Types

Editing Unified Profile Types

Deleting Unified Profile Types

Registering group attributes for retrieval from LDAP

Deleting user attributes from LDAP

Adding group attributes in LDAP

Unregistering group attributes for retrieval in LDAP

Viewing LDAP configuration settings

Selecting groups for the Personalization Server from realm

Mapping realm groups to the Personalization Server

Deleting groups from your database

Deleting user records from personalization database

 

Creating and Managing Content

What is the Content Management Component?

Third-party tools and WLPS

Constructing queries using Java

Differences between content management and document management

Using the document servlet

JSP Tags

Configuring the Content Management component

Configuring the Document EJB deployment descriptor

Configuring the Document Schema EJB deployment descriptor

Configuring the DocumentManager EJB deployment descriptor

Setting up Connection pools

Using the Show Document Servlet

Querying document content

Structuring a query

Using comparison operators to construct queries

Using the BulkLoader to load file-based content

Using Content Management JSP Tags

 

Creating and Managing Rules

What is the Rules Manager?

Well-known objects

What are Rulesheets?

Classifier rules

Content selector rules

Debugging rulesheets

Using the Rules Management Administration Tool

Creating a rulesheet

Opening a rulesheet

Editing rulesheet properties

Saving a rulesheet

Deleting a rulesheet

Navigating between rule types

Finding a rule

Creating a classifier rule

Editing a rule

Editing rule properties

Adding an If user phrase to a rule

Editing an If user phrase

Deleting a rule phrase

Creating a content selector rule

Adding an If user classifier to a content selector rule phrase

Adding an And when phrase to a content selector rule

Adding a Then display content phrase to a content selector rule

Editing a Then display content phrase