Oracle UPK - Putting Web Pages to Good Use

A Web Page, in UPK terms, is a single file that can contain text or images. In this respect, Web Pages are very limited. You can perform rudimentary font formatting, provide lists, and insert images, but that's about it. You cannot insert tables, or use any HTML tags as you would be able to with real web pages (which you can only use via a Package). However, they are very flexible, and can be utilized in a number of ways.

Using Web Pages in the Concept pane

The most common use of Web Pages is to provide context information for Topics. Look at the following image of the Outline for our example course:

You will see that the upper-right section of the Outline window contains a pane labeled Concept. If you want any information to be displayed in this pane, then you need to create a Web Page and attach it to the content object in the Outline.

Version Difference
Although the Concept pane always appears in the Outline view, if it is empty, then it does not appear in the Player. This is, thankfully, a new feature in UPK 3.5. In previous versions, the Concept pane always appeared in the Player, often appearing as a blank frame, where developers couldn't be bothered to provide any concepts.

To create a new Web Page and attach it to a content object, carry out the following steps:

1. Open the Outline containing the content object to which you want to attach the Web Page, in the Outline Editor.
2. Click on the content object to select it. Although in this example we are attaching a Web Page to the concept pane for a Topic, Modules, and Sections also have concept panes, so you can also attach Web Pages to these as well.
3. Click on the Create new web page button ( ) in the Concept pane. The Save As dialog box is displayed.

4. Navigate to the folder in which you want to save the Web Page (as explained in Chapter 2, Organizing your Library, we will use an Assets sub-folder for all of our Web Pages), enter a name for the Web Page (it makes sense to use a reference to the content object to which the Web Page relates), and then click on the Save button. The Web Page Editor is opened on the Developer screen, as shown in the next screenshot: