Oracle® Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0) E10149-06 |
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If you have been granted the Spaces-Create
permission by the WebCenter Spaces administrator, you can create a Space using one of the out-of-the-box Space templates, your own custom Space template, or a published Space template created by others. Space templates provide a consistent look and feel and an efficient way to get started creating a Space that is configured exactly as required by an organization.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Audience
This chapter is intended for users who want to know more about Space templates, create custom Space templates, and manage Space templates.
Much of this information applies to any WebCenter Portal application, though it is written with WebCenter Spaces users in mind. The WebCenter Spaces administrator has the authority to expose or hide some Space features and services. Contact your WebCenter Spaces administrator if some tasks discussed in this chapter are not available to you.
When you create a Space, you can base it on a template, either provided out-of-the-box by WebCenter Spaces or a custom template that you or the WebCenter Spaces administrator design, as described in the following sections:
WebCenter Spaces provides several Space templates out-of-the box from which you can choose when creating a new Space. These templates are named according to their general purpose, and can be used as a starting point for developing your own custom templates.
The out-of-the-box Space templates are:
Blogger: Template for a Space where members can publish their opinions through blogs, and preconfigures announcements, discussions, documents, events, lists, and mail.
Discussion Site: Template for a Space where members can exchange ideas in discussion forums to quickly resolve issues, come up with new product ideas, resolve customer escalations, determine new service offerings, and more.
Document Exchange: Template for a Space centered around sharing and organizing documents to enable teams to quickly hone in on delivering agreed upon wording and messaging. This template also enables checkin and workflow around document approvals and working in teams.
Portal Site: Template for a Space appropriate for a large organization with several smaller groups or departments, each of which needs to store their own content, engage in discussions, and more. This template speeds enterprise portal construction and delivery and enables teams to easily provide their unique value to the company, promoting their group's charter to all other organizations while securely collaborating within their team or organization.
This template provides an essentially unpopulated, unconfigured starting point for building a Space exactly to your specifications. When you create a Space using this template, it results in a blank Home page. All Space services such as discussions, announcements, and so on, are disabled.
Project Site: Template for a Space where members can share information about a common project and maintain a common calendar. This template provides an optimal structure for supporting a core project team where members might come from different departments to work together toward reaching a common goal.
The focus of a Space based on this template is to streamline the process of starting a new project, defining the project team, and executing on project deliverables. Members can share documents, communicate with one other, keep up to date on status, and generally function better as a team than as individuals working side by side.
Team Site: Template for a Space that provides an optimal structure for supporting communities of people who are working together to achieve a common goal, collaborating through document sharing, team announcements, discussion forums, mail, wikis, and more.
The focus of a Space based on this template is to learn more about a subject area through the sharing of expertise, ideas, and content. Team Site Spaces provide a consistent, dynamic, timely, and interactive participant experience. For example, all the Java programmers responsible for supporting your customer-facing Web site might want a place to keep up with what's happening in the Java world using discussion forums, links to articles about upcoming patches, and so on.
A custom Space template may be simple, or may include robust functionality such as:
Preseeded data, such as discussions, documents, lists, member information (including roles), pages, or site resources. When you select such a template to build a new Space, the new Space includes all the preseeded data.
Custom java code that executes when you select the template for a new Space. For example, custom code may include logic to automatically create a mailing list for a new Space. For more information, see the chapter "Extending WebCenter Spaces Using JDeveloper" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.
You cannot modify or delete the out-of-the-box Space templates described in Section 50.1, "What You Should Know About Space Templates", but any user with Create Space Template
or higher permission can create new Space templates.
To create a custom Space template, you start by creating a Space based on an existing template (see Section 51.2, "Creating a New Space"), and customize it according to your requirements. Then, you can create a new Space template based on the customized Space that you have developed. During the creation of a Space template, you can select to inherit the discussions, documents, lists, member information (including roles), pages, or site resources from the parent Space. The security settings for the parent Space are inherited by the template
Note: When creating a new Space template, the template does not inherit Announcements from a parent Space. |
As a Space template creator, you can publish Space templates for others to use; otherwise, they remain private and hidden from others. To make the template public, you must be granted Space Templates-Manage All
permission.
Note: WebCenter Spaces administrators can also create Space templates to be made available at the application level, and import and export custom Space templates from and to other WebCenter Spaces applications, including seeded data. For more information, see Chapter 53, "Administering Spaces and Templates." |
To create a Space template:
In the Home Space, go to the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates").
On the Space Templates page, click Create a Space Template.
The Create a Space Template dialog opens (Figure 50-1).
Figure 50-1 Create a Space Template Dialog: Setup Step
In the Setup step, enter a suitable Space Template Name and (optionally) Description. Choose a name that describes the Space template and other WebCenter Spaces users will recognize.
Space template names can contain alphanumeric characters, underscores, spaces, multi-byte characters, and special characters such as &
and #
. The maximum allowable length is 200 characters. The following reserved keywords are not allowed as the full Space template name either in upper or lowercase, or a combination of both—webcenter
, pages
, page
, spaces
, space
, group
, groups
, Space
, Spaces
, webcenter space
, webcenter spaces
, webcenter administration
, my Spaces
, admin
, last
. These reserved words are allowable as part of a longer name (for example, Sales Group
).
Click Next.
In the Spaces step, select a Space to use as the basis for your new Space template, then click Next.
In the Content step, select the services that contain data that you want the Space template to inherit from the parent Space (Figure 50-2).
Note: Space templates can not inherit Announcements from a parent Space.List definitions are always copied; checking Lists in this step specifies that you want to copy the list data, too. |
Click Create.
The new Space template displays on your Space Templates page in the Home Space. By default, the template is private, which means that only you as the template creator can see the template on your personal Space Templates page in the Home Space. Other users will not see the private template on their personal Space Templates page in the Home Space, but users granted the Application-Manage Configuration
permission can view and manage private templates on the application-level Space Templates page. For more information, see Chapter 53, "Administering Spaces and Templates."
To publish your Space template to make it available to all WebCenter Spaces users, you must be granted the Space Templates-Manage All
permission by the WebCenter Spaces administrator. If you have this permission, select the template name, then click the Edit menu, and choose Make Public.
The template is published and displays on the Space Templates page in the Home Space for all users.
You cannot modify or delete the out-of-the-box Space templates provided by WebCenter Spaces (see Section 50.1.1, "Understanding Out-of-the-Box Space Templates"), but any user with Create Space Template
or higher permission can create new Space templates, based on Spaces that they own (see Section 50.2, "Creating a Custom Space Template"), and manage the Space templates that they own.
The Space Templates page in the Home Space displays the out-of-the-box Space templates, Space templates created by the current user, and published templates available for general use.
The following sections describe the management tasks available to Space template creators, WebCenter Spaces administrators, and users granted the Space Templates - Manage All
permission by the WebCenter Spaces administrator:
To display the Space Templates page, showing the Space templates available to you for creating new Spaces:
In the Home Space, click Space Templates.
Tip: The way you access this page depends on the page template in use. For example, in a side navigation template, you may access it through a Personalize Pages link.You can also navigate to this page using the direct URL provided in Section A.3, "User Interface URLs for Space Pages." |
If Space Templates is not exposed In the Home Space, refer to Section 29.3.4, "Showing Hidden Pages."
To search for a Space template by a string in the Name or Description:
On the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates"), enter a search string in the Filter field.
Click the Filter icon (Figure 50-3).
The Space Templates page displays Space templates where the search string is found in the Name or Description.
To clear the current search string and display all Space templates, click the Clear Filter icon (Figure 50-4).
To rename a Space template:
On the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates"), select the Space template.
From the Edit menu, choose Rename Space Template.
The Rename Space Template dialog opens.
In the Display Name field, enter a new name for the Space template. Optionally, enter a Description.
Click OK.
You can grant specific users and groups read-only or manage access to a Space template.
To set up access to a Space template:
On the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates"), select the Space template.
From the Edit menu, choose Set Template Access.
The Set Template Access dialog opens (Figure 50-5).
In the Set Template Access dialog:
Click Add Users to open the Search Users dialog where you can select from a list of users or search for a user name. Enter—minimally—two consecutive characters from the name of your search target, using an asterisk as a wild card for preceding or following characters (the search term *do
finds both condoleeza
and doug
).
Click Add Groups to open the Search Groups dialog where you can search for a user group.
For each user or user group listed in the Set Template Access dialog, specify the level of access granted to grant:
Select the View checkbox to grant read-only access to the Space template.
Select the Manage checkbox to grant full access to the Space template.
Click OK.
When you create a Space template (see Section 50.2, "Creating a Custom Space Template"), it is private by default. This means that only you as the template creator can see the template on your personal Space Templates page in the Home Space. Other users will not see the private template on their personal Space Templates page in the Home Space, but users granted the Application-Manage Configuration
permission can view and manage private templates on the application-level Space Templates page. For more information, see Chapter 53, "Administering Spaces and Templates."
To publish or hide Space templates that you create to make them available to all WebCenter Spaces users, you must be granted the Space Templates-Manage All
permission by the WebCenter Spaces administrator. If you have this permission:
On the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates"), select the Space template(s).
To select multiple Space templates, Ctrl-click each template.
From the Edit menu, choose either of the following, depending on the template's current state:
Make Public to publish the template to all WebCenter Spaces users.
Remove Public Access to hide the template from all other WebCenter Spaces users (except yourself, as the template creator).
Note: If you are in the process of creating a new Space (see Section 51.2, "Creating a New Space"), and the Space template you select for the Space is made private by another user before you have completed creating the Space, the template remains valid for your use while you are still creating the Space. |
To delete one or more Space templates:
On the Space Templates page (see Section 50.3.1, "Viewing Available Space Templates"), select the Space template(s).
To select multiple Space templates, Ctrl-click each template.
From the Edit menu, choose Delete Space Template.
In the confirmation prompt, click Delete.
Note: Out-of-the-box Space templates cannot be deleted. However, WebCenter Spaces administrators and users granted theSpace Templates-Manage All permission can hide the out-of-the-box templates from everyone's view by making them private on the application-level Space Templates page, if granted the Application-Manage Configuration permission by the WebCenter Spaces administrator. For more information, see Chapter 53, "Administering Spaces and Templates." |