Thursday, January 15, 2009

Personalizing the Portal - Features

iViews
· An iView is a program that retrieves data from an information source in your company and on the Internet, and displays it in the portal content area.
· All areas that comprise your portal desktop are iViews.

Pages
· A page consists of the totality of iViews assigned to it, which can be several or one, and a layout, which determines the physical arrangement of the iViews.

Layouts
· In order to create a visually harmonious and balanced layout, and provide flexibility for browser font settings and window sizes, the portal supports nine different predefined page layouts.
· Each page may have more than one layout available to it.
· You may have access to custom layouts created by your administrator.

Content
· Related iViews are usually organized on the same page for easier task performance.
· Depending upon your permissions, you can personalize each page by choosing which content to display and its placement on the page.