Advanced URL Settings (Remote Portlet Web Service)

To specify a help page, administration configuration page, shared user preferences page, or remote migration page for this Web service:

1. If the portlets associated with this Web service have help, you can include a help button in the portlet title bar. In the Help Page box, type the URL to the help page.
   
   Note: The help page must be located on the computer hosting the web service or on the computer hosting the Image Service. If the help page is located on the computer hosting the web service, it must be gatewayed (set on the HTTP Configuration page).

2. Your Web service might require administrative configuration settings or user preferences that affect more than just this Web service. For example, you might have server settings that are stored in a remote database, or you might have several Web services accessing an application that requires user credentials. Rather than creating a separate configuration page for each Web service and requiring users to specify the same information multiple times, you can create a link to these shared settings, allowing users to specify the information only once for all of these Web services.
   
   Because the links will have the same name as the Web service, do one of the following:

• Give this Web service (and thus the link) a name that clarifies what the shared settings are for.

• Create a Web service that is not used for anything but these links.
  
  Note: In this case the Web service will not be used to create any associated objects, so you can use any URL for the URL settings on the Main Settings page.

You can specify the following shared settings:

• Administration Configuration URL: If you type a path in this box, a link displays in the Select Utility drop-down list (in the Administrative Objects Directory). Only users with activity rights to access Administration and Utilities can access this link.

• User Configuration URL: If you type a path in this box, a link displays on the My Account page. To send these settings to a Web service, specify the names of the preferences you want to send on the Preferences page of that Web service.
  
  Note: The User Configuration URL differs from the Portlet Preferences URL (specified on the Preferences page) in the following ways:

• The Portlet Preferences URL displays a preferences icon () in the portlet title bar. The User Configuration URL displays a link on the My Account page to any user with at least Read access to the Web service.

• A user configuration page can include only user preferences. A portlet preferences page can include user preferences or portlet-specific preferences.
  
  Note: Any user preferences (set on either page) that are required by the Web service must be specified, by name, on the Preferences page.

Important: Do not enter anything into the Remote Migration URL box; this box must be left blank. This feature is reserved for future use.

For more information on settings and preferences and how to implement them, refer to the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Web Service Development Guide, which is located on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Remote Portlet Web Service Editor:
• To create a new remote portlet Web service:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Web Service - Remote Portlet.
• To edit an existing remote portlet Web service:
1. Navigate to the remote portlet Web service you want to edit.
2. Click the remote portlet Web service name.
3. On the left, under Edit Object Settings, click Advanced URL Settings.