1 Navigating the Portal

The portal includes some basic functionality in the portal banner and menus to access the different areas of the portal. The areas you see depend on the portal configuration, whether you are logged in, and your portal access.

To determine whether you are logged in correctly, look at the portal greeting (at the top of the portal banner).

By default your greeting is Welcome, user name where user name is the name of the user by which you are logged in. To change your greeting, click My Account, then, on the My Account page, click Display Options.
To access the Administrative Objects Directory, where you can create and manage portal objects and access portal utilities, click Administration.

Note:
You see Administration only if you have the Access Administration activity right. For information on Administrative Objects Directory features, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction.
To edit your user profile, personalize your display options, set your locale settings, set your search preferences, change your portal password, and manage user names and passwords for external accounts, as well as view your user profile, click My Account.
To display help for the page you are viewing, click Help.
To log in to the portal or log off the portal, click Log In or Log Off.
To search for documents or objects in your portal, type your search string in the box in the portal banner and click Search.
To go directly to the result that your portal administrator has set as the top best bet for a term, without first seeing all the search results, type the top best bet operator (>) followed by your search string and click Search, or type your search string and click the Search icon.
Note:
- If no top best bet has been set for the term, the regular search results appear.
- The top best bet button () is available only if enabled by your portal developer.
To search for documents or objects using metadata properties and location, click Advanced Search.
To search other content, portals, and web search engines, click Federated Search.

Note:
The Federated Search button is available only if enabled by your portal developer.
To view your user profile, in the My Profile menu, click View User Profile.
To view one of your personalized pages, in the My Pages menu, click the page you want to view.
To view and manage the communities to which you belong, select an option from the My Communities menu:
- To view a community, click the community name.
- To join a community, click Join Communities, select the communities you want to join, and click Finish.
- To unsubscribe from a community, click Unsubscribe Communities, select the communities from which you want to unsubscribe, and click Finish.
To browse documents in the portal, click Directory.