User Management Guide

Overview of Visitor Entitlements

This section provides an overview of visitor entitlements in WebLogic Portal. Use the WebLogic Administration Portal to configure visitor entitlements.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Using Visitor Entitlements

Visitor Entitlements allow you to define who can access the resources in a portal application and what they may do with those resources. This access is based on the role assigned to a portal visitor, allowing for flexible management of the resources. For example, if you have an Employee Review portlet, you can assign the "Managers" Visitor Entitlement role you created to that portlet, letting only logged in users who belong in that role view the portlet.

A user visiting an application is assigned a role based on an expression that can include their name, the group that they are in, the time of day, or characteristics from their profile. For example, the "gold member" role could be assigned to users because they are part of the frequent flyer program and have flown more than 50,000 miles in the previous year. This role is dynamically assigned to users when they log in to the site.

Setting Up Visitor Entitlements

You can set Visitor Entitlements for a resource by adding one or more roles and setting the capabilities for those roles. The resources that can be entitled within a portal application include desktops, books, pages, look and feels, and portlets and portlet categories. Each of these has capabilities that are based on the type of resource, as shown in Table 5 -1:

Table 5 -1 Capabilities According to Resource Type

	View	Minimize	Maximize	Edit	Remove
Desktop	x
Book	x	x	x
Page	x
Look & Feel	x
Portlet Categories	x
Portlet	x	x	x	x	x

View - The "View" capability determine whether or not the user can see the resource.

Minimize/Maximize - The "Minimize" and "Maximize" capabilities determine whether or not the user is able to minimize or maximize the portlet or book. This applies to books within a page, not to the primary book.

Edit - The "Edit" capability determines whether or not the user can edit the resource's properties.

Remove - The "Remove" capability determines whether or not the user can remove the portlet from a page.

For detailed instructions on setting up visitor entitlements, see the WebLogic Administration Portal online help at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13218_01/wlp/docs81/adminportal/index.html.