Portal And Content – Introduction (1 of 7)
- by Stefan Krantz
The coming post over the next two months will be included in a new series. 
The idea is to help the reader to understand how to enable a versatile and 
manageable portal. Each post will go through a specific use case or lifecycle 
group of events that a Content Driven Portal requires the development team to 
consider. The current planning is to deliver following subjects, each topic will 
be enclosed in a separate blog post. 
   
    Introduction – Introduction to the series of posts and what to 
expect at the end of the series 
    Components, part 1 – UCM, Site Studio and high level 
introduction to content templates 
    Components, part 2 – Page Templates and  Navigation 
model 
    Components, part 3 – Applied Customization Framework for Content 
Presenter Taskflows 
    Scenario 1 – Enable a Portal for runtime 
administration 
    Scenario 2 – Enable a Portal for 
Internationalization 
    Scenario 3 – Enable a Portal for Content 
Workflows 
   
  Background 
  This post series has been issued to help customers, partners and consultants 
to understand the concept of a WebCenter Portal project where the main focus or 
a majority of the portal has content interaction. Today the most portal 
installations Oracle WebCenter Portal is involved in have a vast majority of 
content based pages. Many of the Portal projects have or will run into 
challenges, to mitigate these challenges the portal and content lifecycle has to 
be well designed. The coming posts will address the main components that should 
be involved when creating such scenarios; it will also go into details on the 
process by describing three solution scenarios. The aim with the scenarios 
is to give the reader a more hands on understanding of the concept of building 
and architecting a Content Driven Portal. The selected scenarios are selected 
based on the most common use cases that we have identified until today.