What are the DBA, PORTAL_DEVELOPERS, and PORTAL_ADMINISTRATORS groups?

Groups define the actions that Oracle Portal users can perform by controlling access to Oracle Portal pages and assigning default access privileges.

By default, the three groups that can access Oracle provider building pages are:

• DBA

• PORTAL_ADMINISTRATORS

• PORTAL_DEVELOPERS

For example, to create an Oracle Portal provider, you must be a member of the the DBA, PORTAL_ADMINISTRATORS, or PORTAL_DEVELOPERS groups. To build a new database schema, you must be a member of the DBA group.

When you assign an Oracle Portal user to a group, the user is automatically granted all the privileges of the group. Portal Provider Builder groups and the privileges assigned to them by default listed below.

	DBA	PORTAL_ADMINISTRATORS	PORTAL_DEVELOPERS
Page Privileges
All Pages	Manage	Manage	None
All Styles	Manage	Manage	None
All Layouts	Manage	Manage	None
All Providers	Manage	Manage	None
All Portlets	Manage	Manage	None
Content Area Privileges
All Content Areas	Manage	Manage	None
Provider Privileges
All Providers	Manage	Manage	Create
All Shared database portlets	Manage	None	Manage
Administration Privileges
All Users	Manage	Manage	None
All Groups	Manage	Create	None
All Schemas	Manage	None	None
All Logs	Manage	Manage	None

Users with the appropriate privileges can change the default privileges shown above by editing the group.

PORTAL_DEVELOPERS group

The easiest way to create an Oracle Portal user who can create provider and database portlets is to assign the user to the PORTAL_DEVELOPERS group. (Users who belong to the DBA group can also create database portlets, but are by default granted additional privileges such as creating and dropping schemas).

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