Controlling access to a page

You can determine who has access to a page and to what extent. Keep in mind, however, that page access works in tandem with the global privileges that are set for users and groups. For example, you may explicitly grant View access to a particular page for three users using the Access tab. But there may be many more users who can actually view your page, depending on how many users have been granted View privileges for All Pages.

With respect to page access and customization, it may help to consider two versions of a page: the one that an individual user sees, and the public version of the page. If you are the page designer, you control the extent to which other users can customize your page: whether they can modify the public version, their own private version, or nothing at all.

To control access to a page, you must have at least one of the following privileges:

Portal administrator
Manage All privileges on the page group to which the page belongs
Manage privileges on the page
Manage global privileges on All Pages

Note: If a page is based on a template, page designers may not be able to control the access and style of the page. There are two options at the template level, Enable Pages To Have Different Access and Enable Pages To Use Different Style, which control whether page designers can specify different access and style settings for the page. These must be selected, otherwise, the page access and style settings cannot be changed by page designers.

To control access to a page:

In the Navigator, click Properties next to the page with which you want to work.
Click the Access tab.
Select Display Page To Public Users if you want everyone, including users who are not logged into the portal, to be able to view the page.
Select Enable Item Level Security to allow item creators to specify access control for individual items in the page.

Note: This option is available only if the page is a Standard page, or is of a custom page type based on the Standard page type. If you do not select this check box, all the items on the page inherit access control from the page. If you select this check box, item creators have the choice of inheriting access control from the page, or specifying specific access control for individual items. For more information, see What is item level security (ILS)?.
To explicitly grant privileges to specific users or groups:
1. In the Grantee field, enter the name of the user or group that you want to allow to access this page.
  
  Tip: If you are not sure of the name of the user or group, click (for users) or (for groups), and select from the list provided.
2. In the list, choose a privilege level.
  
  Note: The order of the privileges in the list is not based on any hierarchy of privileges. For more information, see Page privileges.
3. Click Add.
To clear all the Web Cache entries for the page, click Clear Cache. The next time the page is requested, it will be retrieved from the database, not the cache.

Example: If you revoke a user's privileges on the page, the user will still be able to access the page if it is in the cache. If you want to make sure that your changes are applied immediately, clear the page from the cache by clicking this link.

Note: This link is available only if one or more of the Web Cache global settings are enabled.
Click OK to return to the Navigator.

Notes

Use the Privilege list under Change Access to change a user or group's privilege level. Click to remove the user's or group's privileges entirely.
Changing the access settings of a page template affects all pages based on that template. However, if the template allows page designers to use different access settings for pages based on the template, changes to the page template's access settings affect only pages that inherit access settings from the template.
Because Oracle Internet Directory (OID) can include multiple directory containers that use the same group names, the distinguished name (DN) is displayed next to any group that does not belong to the local Portal instance.