Adding a Portal Smart Link item

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Use the following steps to add a smart link (and associated image) to the page. A smart link is a link that users can click to access areas of the portal quickly, such as Account Information, Advanced Search, Contact Information, Help, and Home.

You must be logged on as a page owner or an authorized user with the page or item-level privileges to add items.

To add a Portal Smart Link item to a page:

1. Navigate to the page on which you want to add the item.

   Note: If you do not see the page that you want to work with, you may not have the appropriate page access privileges. See your page group administrator to gain access.

2. Switch to Edit mode.

3. Click in the region in which you want to add the item.

   Note: If (the add item icon) does not display next to the region, the region may be a portlet region (and may contain portlets). In this case, you cannot add items to this region.

4. From the Built-In Navigation Item Types list, choose Portal Smart Link.

   Note: If this item type does not appear in the list, contact your page group administrator. Your administrator selects which item types to display here.

5. Click Next.

6. In the Portal Smart Link field, select a smart link type:

   • Account Information displays the Edit Account Information page.

   • Advanced Search displays the Advanced Search page.

   • Community displays the Portal Community main page. The community is part of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and includes the Portal Studio and Portal Developer Kit (PDK).

   • Contact displays an email link of the contact for the current page or page group. If there is no contact information available, this link does not display.

   • Customize allows the user to customize the current page. This only displays if the user has the appropriate privileges.

   • Edit allows the user to edit the current page. This only displays if the user has the appropriate privileges on the page or any of its tabs, or if item level security is enabled on the page or any of its tabs.

   • Favorites allows the user to add the current page to the Favorites portlet.

   • Help displays the Portal help pages.

   • Home displays the Portal home page.

   • Mobile displays the current user's mobile customization page. Adding this link allows users to customize their mobile portals. This link should only be added when there is a distinct mobile portal with mobile pages.

   • Navigator displays the Portal Navigator. This only displays if the user has the appropriate privileges to view the Navigator.

   • Page Group Home displays the page group home page.

   • Portlet Repository displays the Portlet Repository page.

   • Portlet Repository Refresh Status displays the refresh status of the Portlet Repository for the administrator. This link should only be used on pages in the Portlet Repository page group.

   • Property Sheet displays the property sheet for the page.

   • Refresh refreshes the page. If caching is not set to "on" for this page, this link does not display.

   • Refresh Portlet Repository allows the administrator to refresh the Portlet Repository. This link should only be used on pages in the Portlet Repository page group.

   • Subscribe allows users to subscribe to the page on which this smart link is displayed.

7. Enter a Display Name for the item, or select Use the Default Display Name.

   Notes:

   • Users click the display name to view the item. Be as descriptive as possible.

   • This field is not translated. The exact text is used for all languages.

8. Select Use the Default Display Name to use the Portal default display name. Selecting this option clears any text in the Display name field. When this option is selected, Portal displays a default display name for the item. This option is translated. When the Portal is viewed in different languages, the default display name appears in each installed languages.

9. Enter the location of the Image. Use the first field to browse to the image on your file system. This uploads the image into the portal. Alternatively, use the second field to enter the URL of an image, or reuse an image that has already been uploaded to the portal by entering its file name without a path, for example 1234.gif.

10. If you have selected an image for this smart link, select an image alignment.

    See Item image alignment for a description and example of the different image alignment options.

11. Click Finish.

Related topics

What is an item?
What are item types?
Displaying an item property sheet
Adding an item
Editing an item

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