Enable Approvals And Notifications

Select this option to enable item approvals and item notifications in the page group.

A new tab, Approval, displays the next time you edit the page group. From this tab, you can define the approval process and specify notification recipients for the page group.

Notes:

• When you enable approvals and notifications for a page group, the page privilege Manage Items With Approval becomes available for selection on the Access tab of every page in the page group that defines its own access rules. If you assign the page privilege Manage Items With Approval, but do not create an approval process, this privilege becomes equivalent to the page privilege Manage Content with regard to items.
• Selecting this option also enables the subscription functionality. Users can subscribe to a page or item so that they can be notified whenever that page or item is updated.

Select this option if you want to use Oracle Portal's built-in approval functionality. If you select this option, page group administrators and page designers define the approval process on the Approval tab of the page group or page.

Select this option if you want to leverage the advanced features of Oracle BPEL workflow processes for approving content in your page group. The workflow processes are created using Oracle BPEL Designer and then pointed to from Oracle Portal. In the Approval tab, page group administrators and page designers identify the Oracle BPEL workflow process that they want to use.

By default, all pages in a page group inherit the approval process defined at the page group level. To allow page designers to override this and define approval processes at the page level, select this option.

Notes:

• If you select this option, page designers can still decide to use the approval process defined for the page group, if they prefer.
• Page designers can also decide to ignore the approval process completely by defining an empty approval process at the page level. This means that users with the page privilege Manage Items With Approval can add items to the page without requiring approval.