HOW TO INSTALL AND CONFIGURE ORACLE DRIVE WITH ORACLE PORTAL Posted by R@hUl | at 9:09 AM

This Technical Note describes how to install and configure Oracle Drive for use in anOracle Application Server Portal (Oracle Portal) environment. Oracle Drive is apowerful WebDAV client. It maps the Oracle Portal Repository as a drive and allowsyou to perform desktop authoring and publishing, as well as portal specific metadata attribution, directly from the Windows desktop. You can use Oracle Drive with Oracle Portal (9.0.4.2) or later. No additional configuration is required on the Oracle Application Server middle-tier, infrastructure or Metadata Repository. Note that Oracle Drive does not work with earlier versions of Oracle Portal, including version 9.0.4 (Oracle Application Server 10g Base Release).SETTING UP ORACLE DRIVE INSTALLATION The Oracle Drive software must be installed on each Windows client that wants to take advantage of these capabilities. The installation is very easy and only requires you to choose an installation directory for the Oracle Drive software. Simply follow the installation instructions provided by the Oracle Installer and reboot the Windows machine once the installation is complete. After restarting the computer you can see anew icon in the Windows system tray. Next, you must configure Oracle Drive to work with Oracle Portal.CONFIGURATION Each Oracle Drive installation must be configured to connect to the Oracle Portal Repository. Follow the steps described below:1. Open the Oracle Drive dialog box by double-clicking the icon in the Windows system tray.Figure 1: Oracle Drive Dialog 3. Specify the following properties:Service name: Name for your WebDAV connection Username: Oracle Portal Single Sign-On (SSO) user Server: /dav_portal/portal/For example: http://mycompany.com:7781/dav_portal/portal4. Click OK.5. Choose a drive letter to map to the new Oracle Drive connection.Figure 3: Configured Oracle Drive Dialog6. Click Connect. Enter your Oracle Portal SSO username and password to authenticate and establish the connection. 7. The Oracle Drive WebDAV connection is assigned to the drive letter selected in Step 5 and is available in Windows Explorer. If you right-click any file or folder under the mapped Oracle Drive, extra file/folder menu options specific to Oracle Portal are now available.Figure 5: Oracle Portal- Right-click Menu Options for Files ORACLE PORTAL RIGHT-CLICK MENU OPTIONS The Oracle Portal menu options that are available when you right-click any file or folder under a mapped Oracle Drive are described below. When you choose one of these.

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