Portal and Web PL/SQL

Oracle Portal is a fun tool to use. It's used in many organisations to run their internal intranets and yet has struggled to gain acceptance for public-facing web sites. I'm not sure what the reason for this is, but I suspect that intranets are often left to the "techies" who are very happy using an Oracle system. Public sites are more often done by marketing or PR people who tend to work with designers and graphics folk more at home with Dreamweaver and design tools than with a database driven system. Both approaches have merits.

Building a Simple Web PL/SQL Application

How to build a very simple web PL/SQL application in Portal.

Setting Page Parameters

A frequent request is to be able to set portal page parameters from a dynamic page. Here's how to do it.

Portal Application Development Tutorial

A step-by-step intoduction to building Portal applications, with lots of screenshots.

• Getting Started - creating a page group and schema
• Configuring the Banner - giving your application it's own identity
• Adding a List of Employees - creating a simple dynamic page
• Selecting the Department - using a drop-down select box to filter the employee list