How to use Direct Access URL's in Portal (Doc ID 178247.1)

Last updated on APRIL 08, 2025

Applies to:

Goal

This document is to encourage users to use more often the Direct Access URL's instead of the use of Portal URI's (since URI's can be more frequently changed).

The Note includes two sections:-

A) How to use Direct Access URL's prior to Portal 10.1.4
B) How to use Direct Access URL's post Portal 10.1.4

This happens due to the architectural change of the Oracle Portal product.


Oracle Portal lets you enter user-friendly URLs directly in your browser so that you and your users can quickly access pages and content area objects via a logical path name. You can also navigate to your pages and content area objects using the Navigator, Content Area Map, or any of the various managers which you can access from the Content Area Administration page.

Direct access URLs let you share fully formed URLs or relative URLs with other users so that they can quickly access your Oracle Portal objects such as pages, folders, categories, perspectives, and documents.


In Portal 10.1.2.x the following would happen:

Solution