Page Styles

On the Assets and Shared Assets pages, WebCenter Portal provides several built-in page styles, and you can create new custom page styles. If a page style is a shared asset (available to all portals), it is shown on the Assets page of all portals along with portal-specific page styles.

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Creating and editing a page style is a fairly complex task. While you can develop page styles in WebCenter Portal, the editing capabilities are limited. Oracle recommends that developers use JDeveloper to develop page styles for portals. When fully developed, the developer can publish page styles directly to WebCenter Portal (the portal server) or to a specific portal for immediate use or for testing. Alternatively, the developer can export the page styles to a file and upload the page template to WebCenter Portal later.

A page style defines the initial layout of the main content area of a newly created page, and may also dictate the type of content that the page supports. For example, the Wiki page style provides an instant wiki; a Blank page style has few restrictions on the types of content users can add to the pages that are based on it.

When users create a page, they are provided with selection of page styles to use.

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If you create the initial pages for a new portal in the Create Portal wizard, there is no opportunity to select a page style for the pages. If the portal template includes a page style called Default Page Style, then that is the page style used for all pages created in this way. Otherwise, the built-in Blank page style is applied to the pages. It is not possible to change a page style for a page after creating the page.

The initial layout and content are copied from the page style to the main content area of a newly created page.

Select icons and actions in the toolbar to work with page styles. Refer to the online help in the resulting dialogs for information and assistance.