Resource Catalogs

On the Assets and Shared Assets pages, WebCenter Portal provides three built-in resource catalogs:

• Default Portal Catalog, assigned to portal pages by default, contains resources to add to pages and task flow assets in a portal.

• Default Home Portal Catalog, assigned to pages in the Home portal by default, contains resources to add to a personal or business role page.

• Default Page Template Catalog, assigned to page templates and page styles by default, contains a Navigations folder and a Portal Components folder, which provide access to resources specifically used in page templates and page styles. Note that all pages in a portal use the same page template, though there may be several page templates available as portal assets.

Alternatively, portal designers can develop custom resource catalogs. Within a portal, you can create a new resource catalog from scratch or copy an existing resource catalog into a new resource catalog. If a resource catalog is a shared asset (available to all portals), it is shown on the Assets page of all portals along with portal-specific resource catalogs.

Resource catalogs are portal assets that expose components and connections that you can add to a portal. You can use a resource catalog to populate pages, page templates, page styles, and task flows. The items listed in a resource catalog are collectively referred to as resources.

The resource catalog available to you as you edit a page, page template, page style, or task flow is established by the portal administration settings, and may be a built-in resource catalog or a custom resource catalog.

For more information, see About the Built-In Resource Catalogs.