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Reviewing the Avitek Intranet Portal

The Avitek intranet portal enables employees and managers to log in to the corporate intranet. When you log in, you access a customized version of the intranet portal for either an employee or a manager.

The following table defines the user names defined for the WebLogic Platform Tour.

User Names Defined for the WebLogic Platform Tour 

This user name...
And password...
Enables...

john

employee

John Smith, an employee of Avitek, to:

  • View his employee profile
  • Submit orders for office equipment and check the status of those orders

rachel

emanager

Rachel Burns, a manager at Avitek, to:

  • View a list of her direct employees
  • Approve or reject orders for office equipment issued by her direct employees and check the status of those orders

The e2ePortal Web application defines the Avitek intranet portal. To view the e2ePortal Web application in WebLogic Workshop:

  1. Open the e2ePortal application, as follows:
    1. Choose File —> Open —> Application.
    2. Navigate to the samples\platform\end2end\e2ePortal folder of the WebLogic Platform installation.
    3. Select e2ePortal.work.
    4. The names of application files end in .work.

    5. Click Open to open the application.
  2. If the application files are not currently displayed in WebLogic Workshop, choose View —> Application.
  3. The e2ePortal application information is displayed, as follows:

    Application Information

The following table describes each of the folders in the e2ePortal application.

e2ePortal Application Folders 

Folder
Contents

data

Data files required to support WebLogic Portal features, such as personalization, campaigns, and so on. This folder is standard in all application projects. You can modify the default contents based on your application requirements.

e2ePortalProject

Application project files, including portal, portlet, page flow, and JSP content files for the sample portals. This folder also contains the following standard application subdirectories:

  • resources—Standard Web application folder containing Portal application resources such as sample CSS, images, and template JSPs.
  • WEB-INF—Standard Web application folder containing deployment descriptors and validation files.

The contents of this folder are described in the sections that follows.

Schema

Schema definitions.

JoinDB

Custom Java control that coordinates access to multiple databases. The contents of this folder are described in detail in Reviewing the Custom Controls for the Avitek Intranet Portal.

WorkflowInvoker

Custom Java control that invokes a business process from the portal. The contents of this folder are described in detail in Reviewing the Custom Controls for the Avitek Intranet Portal.

Modules

Application and portal system JAR files. This folder is standard in all application projects. You can modify the default contents based on your application requirements.

Libraries

Run-time related library files. This folder is standard in all application projects. You can modify the default contents based on your application requirements.

Security Roles

Security role information (this folder is empty for the e2ePortal Web application). This folder is standard in all application projects. You can modify the default contents based on your application requirements.

The following sections describe the contents of the e2ePortalProject folder, including the portals, portlets, page flows, and JSP content files that make up the Avitek intranet portal.

Before proceeding, open WebLogic Workshop and expand the e2ePortalProject folder in the Application window. To view the contents of any portal or portlet, double-click its name in the Application window.


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