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Portal Guide |
This chapter describes how to use the Portal section of the PAC. It has these sections:
The Portal section of the Portal Administration Console (PAC) allows you to view (and in one case edit) information about the Portal subsystem of a deployed Director application.
NOTE: The Portal section of the PAC is almost entirely read-only. The only page that includes a save button is Group Pages: Access Control List.
Each page in the Portal section provides one or two dropdown list controls to that you can use to filter the list of items displayed.
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Upper The upper dropdown list allows you display items belonging to one of the three WARs in the Portal Web tier: PAC, PMC, and Portal |
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Lower The lower dropdown list varies from page to page and is explained in the following sections |
The General Configuration section allows you to view servlet definitions and other properties for each WAR, as defined in its web.xml file. The control at the top of the page selects the WAR to examine.
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Some of the properties include Portal replacement strings such as $PORTAL_SERVLET_URL$. These are described in Portal Replacement Strings.
Components are the fundamental Director application building blocks that make up a Web page. A component is a self-contained and self-described Java class that provides a Web page with dynamic HTML or XML content by way of the portal servlet.
For more information about components, see
Developing Components.
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The lower dropdown list allows you to filter components by category |
The General section of the Components panel displays key configuration parameters from the component descriptor.
For information about individual fields, see
About component descriptors.
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The Components Defaults section displays the default values of each item defined in the component descriptor.
For information about individual fields, see
About component descriptors.
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This section displays the list of styles for a component.
For more information about styles for components, see
Component styles and portal styles.
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This section displays the list of options for a component.
For more information about component options, see
Working with Portal Options.
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The Pages section gives you the ability to view the page source.
For more information about portal pages, see
Writing the Presentation Layer for the Application.
The lower dropdown list allows you to filter pages by category.
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The styles section displays a list of portal-wide style sheets and allows you to view the code.
For more information about style sheets, see
Writing the Presentation Layer for the Application.
The lower dropdown list allows you to filter styles by category.
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This section displays a list of categories. A category is simply a label you define for the purpose of grouping and managing a set of components or a set of pages.
For more information about categories, see
Advanced settings.
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In Categories, the lower dropdown list allows you to list the components, pages, and styles that belong to a category |
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This section displays a list of layouts. A layout is a template that defines how a set of selected portal components should appear on a page.
For more information about layouts, see
Working with Portal Layouts
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This section displays a list of themes. A theme is a set of visual characteristics that apply to an entire Director portal application.
For more information about themes, see
Working with Portal Themes
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This section displays a list of options. An option is an image or text string that appears in the title bar of a portal component.
For more information about options, see
Working with Portal Options.
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This section displays a list of group pages. A group page is a portal pages that show contents s suitable for a particular group of users.
For more information about group pages, see
Working with group pages.
This section displays the properties of the selected group page.
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This section allows you to restrict access to a particular group page. The access control list (ACL) for the group page can specify a particular list of users, or a particular group in the directory realm.
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Click Save to save your changes.
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Portal Guide |
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