Purpose

The goal of this procedure is to successfully install and configure Oracle Drive for use in an Oracle Portal environment.

Scope

This procedure is intended for all current UTPA students, staff and faculty that currently have access to publish on the main university web server.

Prerequisites

A viable UTPA e-mail Account must be in existence (in order to be able to access the server).  Also, UTPA students, staff and faculty must be given publish privileges to their respective web site.  For assistance, contact the Internet Services department: webhelp@utpa.edu

Responsibilities

Web Developer

Procedure

1. Download Oracle Drive from http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/contentdb/p6697944_101200_GENERIC.zip
2. Unzip and execute OracleDrive10.2.exe
3. Follow the on-screen instructions
4.  
   1. Run Oracle Drive
   2. Type a Service Name for the WebDAV connection
   3. Enter your User Name for Oracle Portal
   4. Enter the Server URL:  https://portal.utpa.edu/dav_portal/portal
   5. Expand the Advanced service properties area
   6. Under Connection Options check the box next to “Allow cleartext passwords”
   7. Set the Refresh Interval to 15 seconds
   8. Select an unused drive letter to map
   9. Click “Work Online” to connect the Oracle Portal Repository to the drive letter
5.  
   1. Open the Drive letter mapped to the Oracle Portal Repository
   2. Open a folder that you have access privileges
   3. Copy a file by dragging and dropping a file from your local folder to the Oracle folder
   4. Right click on a file or directory for additional actions
      1. Lock File (applies to files only, not folders)
      2. Copy URL to clipboard
      3. Email URL

References

Oracle Content Management: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/content_management_10gr2.html
OASP Technical Note:  How to Install and Configure Oracle Drive with Oracle Portal: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/pdf/cm_webdav_oracle_drive_1014.pdf
Oracle Application Server Master Glossary
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32110_01/mix.1013/b14006/toc.htm

Definitions

• Oracle Drive – Oracle Drive is a WebDAV client that maps the Oracle Portal Repository as a drive and allows you to perform desktop authoring and publishing, as well as portal specific metadata attribution, directly from the Windows desktop. 
• Oracle Portal Repository - An Oracle database that contains schemas and business logic used by application server components (including OracleAS Portal) and other pieces of the infrastructure. OracleAS Portal uses a schema within the Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository to store and manage the content and metadata associated with the portal instance. This is sometimes referred to as the content repository.
• Oracle Portal – A component of Oracle Application Server that is used for the development, deployment, administration, and configuration of enterprise class portals. OracleAS Portal incorporates a portal building framework with self-service publishing features to enable you to create and manage information accessed within your portal. Full name: Oracle Application Server Portal.
• WebDAV – Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. A protocol extension to HTTP 1.1 that supports distributed authoring and versioning. With WebDAV, the Internet becomes a transparent read and write medium, where content can be checked out, edited, and checked in to a URL address.