Okay this is a major annoyance in Oracle Portal--not all "Pages" are created equal. Specifically I'm talking about URL Pages, which we're hoping to use for loading up Oracle Forms (FMX files).
So we create an URL Page (create a Page and then select "URL" from the Page Type drop-down list) and set the URL to be the Oracle Form we want to run. This has the advantage that the Page now appears in the Page navigation widgets, so if for example you want to place a link to the Form in some region you can just insert a Page Link and select the URL Page from the navigation widget.
Great. But you don't have the same level of control over the URL Page that you do with regular Pages. For example, you can't publish it as a portlet to embed in other pages. And you can't control the template, which we'd like to do because I'd like to wrap our standard header and footer around the FMX.
Yes I know I could go into the formsweb.cfg and insert some pre- and post-HTML but I have a huge chunk of HTML and trying to add that into the config fill will be tedious. Plus it then means I have to maintain the header HTML in two locations, which seems dumb.