PeopleSoft Applications Portal Branding Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications Portal branding feature and other presentation technologies:

Understanding the PeopleSoft Applications Portal Branding Feature

The PeopleSoft Applications Portal branding feature enables you to apply various branding themes to the portal, portal sites, and collaborative workspaces to present multiple visual designs and deliver appropriate links for specific user audiences.

Because branding themes can be applied based on portal registry, site, or user role, using the PeopleSoft Applications Portal branding feature enables you to meet your portal needs by deploying a single applications portal database. This provides the benefit of sharing a common IT infrastructure, as well as a large quantity of unstructured content.

Other features of PeopleSoft Applications Portal branding enable you to:

• Create your own layouts and incorporate them into the administrative pages.

• Store and maintain multiple themes and their component parts.

• Allow non-technical users to assemble themes and configure images, links, text, and styles.

• Configure images and style classes for menus.

• Leverage predefined HTML layouts for theme parts, like headers and footers.

• Maintain precedence role lists for applying themes.

• Move themes from development to production.

See Also

Managing Sites

Administering Sites

Understanding Collaborative Workspaces

Understanding Other Presentation Technologies

This section provides overviews of additional PeopleSoft tools and technologies that you can use to impact the presentation of applications portals and portal sites. This section discusses:

• Personalizing and administering homepages.

• Configuring homepage and pagelet objects.

• Designing portal templates.

• Creating and modifying style sheets and style classes.

Personalizing and Administering Homepages

As a portal end user, you can personalize your homepage by determining the pagelets that appear on each tab of the homepage. You can also determine the homepage layout, and specify whether to display pagelets in a two- or three-column layout. You can also set other personalizations, such as set your password, add words to your personal dictionary, and more.

As a portal administrator, you can administer homepage definitions by creating multiple tabbed homepages that are secured to the appropriate users. For each tab, you can select which pagelets are available for users and designate whether the pagelets are required or optional on the tab. For required and defaulted pagelets, you can designate their position in the layout.

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Applications User's Guide PeopleBook, "Setting User Preferences,”Personalizing Your Homepage.

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook, " “Administering Homepages, Dashboard Pages and Pagelets”.

Configuring Homepage and Pagelet Objects

PeopleSoft uses fixed-named HTML and image objects to build portal homepages. Using the portal registry's content reference attribute fields, you can add overriding HTML objects and images for use with particular tabs and pagelets to alter their look for your presentation requirements.

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook, "Modifying the Portal Interface”, Using Predefined Homepage HTML Objects.

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook, "Developing and Registering Pagelets,” Branding Considerations.

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook, “Using Pagelet Wizard to Create and Manage Pagelets”, Defining Pagelet Wizard Headers and Footers.

Designing Portal Templates

PeopleSoft portal technology integrates content from numerous sources and presents the merged content on a single Web page in a coherent, consistent fashion that keeps users within the portal framework. A portal template tells the portal servlet what content to place on the assembled page and where each piece of content should be placed.

You can design dynamic or static, page-based or a frame-based templates to meet your business requirements.

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook, "Working with Portal Templates”.

Creating and Modifying Style Sheets and Style Classes

A style sheet is a definition, like any PeopleTools object definition, that you create in Application Designer. It is a standalone object definition that you can upgrade, delete, rename, and so on. It is a collection of formatting style classes, each of which can be applied to page display controls.

You can create and modify style classes to control a broad range of characteristics, including font size, spacing, alignment, border width, weight, and color.

Style sheets enable you to change the formatting of many page attributes across multiple pages quickly and easily

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide PeopleBook, “Creating Style Sheet Definitions”.

PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide PeopleBook, “Modifying Classic Style Sheet Tabs”.