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Understanding the home page

By default, the Oracle Instant Portal home page looks like this:

Default Oracle Instant Portal home page

Let's take a look at each area in turn.

The following four areas appear on every page within the portal:

The gray icon at the top is called the Edit Mode icon. When you click this icon, you enter edit mode, through which you can add items, pages, and so on. If you don't see the Edit Mode icon, that means you don't have the appropriate privileges to work on the page. (Only the Oracle Instant Portal administrator has permission to make changes to the home page.)
The upper right corner contains the Welcome, Logout, and Change Profile links.
The banner contains two items:
- The title, which appears at the far left of the banner. By default, the title is My Company.
- The logo, which appears at the far right of the banner. By default, the logo is a broken image.
Although you cannot change the position of the title and the logo, you can, of course, change their content. See Customizing the banner for more information.
The Search field. From the home page, you can search the entire portal. From all other pages in the portal, you can either search the entire portal or choose to restrict your search to the page you're currently viewing.

The content on the home page appears in four distinct sections:

Area	Description
News	Contains items that have been added to the News page, which is a child page of Company. By default, a maximum of ten items appear in the News area on the home page. To see more or fewer items, use the plus and minus keys at the bottom of the News area. If you want to explicitly control which items appear in the News area, you can go into the News page and move or delete items as you see fit. The ten items that appear at the top of the News page will appear on the home page. Oracle Instant Portal administrators, as well as users with Manage or Contribute privileges on the Company page, may create, delete, or move News items.
Announcements	Contains items that have been added to the Announcements page, which is a child page of Company. By default, a maximum of ten items appear in the Announcements area on the home page. To see more or fewer items, use the plus and minus keys at the bottom of the Announcements area. If you want to explicitly control which items appear in the Announcements area, you can go into the Announcements page and move or delete items as you see fit. The ten items that appear at the top of the Announcements page will appear on the home page. Oracle Instant Portal administrators, as well as users with Manage or Contribute privileges on the Company page, may create, delete, or move Announcements.
New Content	Contains items that have been added anywhere in the portal within the last 7 days. A maximum of ten items (the ten most recently added) can be seen at one time. To see more or fewer items, use the plus and minus keys at the bottom of the New Content area. The New Content area cannot be renamed or deleted. Only File and Text items appear in the New Content area; Email, Image, and URL items do not.
Favorite Content	Different for every user. Contains File or Text items the user feels are noteworthy enough to duplicate on the home page as well. See Adding items to the Favorite Content area for more information. The Favorite Content area cannot be renamed or deleted.

The bottom left area provides the means for you to add an email address so users can contact a particular individual should problems or questions arise, or URLs that your users may find handy. If you choose to add these items, note that they appear on the home page only.

Notes

You must be an Oracle Instant Portal administrator to make changes to the home page.
If you have Manage privileges on the home page, you automatically have Manage privileges on every page within the portal and are considered an Oracle Instant Portal administrator.
You can rename the News and Announcements areas by going to the Company page and renaming those child pages. The new names will be immediately reflected on the home page.
You can change how many items appear in the News and Announcements sections, as well as the number of days over which items are collected.
Do not delete News and Announcements from the Company page. When one of these pages is deleted, the corresponding section of the home page is also deleted and cannot be restored, even if you re-create another page by the same name.
When you first start populating the News and Announcements folders with content, you'll find that the content actually appears on the home page twice: once in the News/Announcements area, and once in the New Content area. As other areas of the portal acquire more content, you'll see the New Content area begin to differentiate itself from the content of the News and Announcements folders.
The home page cannot be deleted.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
The News and Announcements areas for a particular user are blank.	The user does not have at least View privileges for the Company page. See Understanding security in Oracle Instant Portal for instructions on how to grant privileges for a page.
You are trying to add an Email or URL item to the home page while using Internet Explorer, but you don't see the window in which to enter the e-mail address or URL.	Go to Tools->Internet Options. On the General tab, under Temporary Internet Files, click Settings. Make sure "Check for newer versions of stored pages" is set to Automatically.

Understanding the home page

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Troubleshooting

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