Working with Content 

Purpose

Your complete portal content consists of the minimum default content of the standard user, and the iViews (integrated views) and pages assigned to your role(s) by the portal administrator. These iViews and pages can appear as individual nodes in your navigation panel, or they can be parts of folders and worksets.

This section details the operations you can perform in order to have customized content in your portal.

Features

iViews

These are programs that retrieve data from information sources in your company and on the Internet, and display it in the portal content area. All areas that comprise your portal desktop are iViews, including the page title bar (see below), the top-level navigation bar, and the different areas that constitute the navigation panel iViews.

iViews:

·        Extend the reach of your portal to information stores as varied as relational databases, ERP systems, CRM systems, enterprise applications, collaboration tools, intranets, the World Wide Web, and E-mail exchange systems.

·        Return real-time information each time they are launched.

·        Assemble a personalized picture of all that is pertinent to your business functions.

The page title bar is a specific iView that appears above the content area and provides you with page-related navigation and action options.

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 five different predefined page layouts. Each page may have more than one layout available to it, depending upon how the page was defined during its creation. You could also have access to custom layouts that may have been created by your administrator.

The default page layouts provided with the portal are as follows:

 

	1 Column (Full Width)
	2 Columns (Equal Width)
	2 Columns (Narrow:Wide)
	2 Columns (Wide:Narrow)
	3 Columns (Narrow:Wide:Narrow)

 

Content

It is probable that when creating pages, the administrator organized related iViews on the same page to make it more convenient for users when they perform their tasks. For example, your pages may each contain iViews pertaining to a specific topic, such as business news sources, or company files necessary for your work.

If your business functions include working with back-end applications such as SAP R/3 or BW systems, then you would have pages with iViews that access these systems. Each such iView is configured to retrieve relevant information from these applications. Since it is important to be able to navigate with this data to receive related information, the content administrator has most likely inserted appropriate drop targets in the Drag&Relate Targets area of the navigation panel.

The content administrator also assigns appropriate related links and dynamic navigation iViews to each page.

Depending upon your permissions, you can then customize each page by choosing your content and its placement.

When you launch a page, all the content that the administrator has assigned, and you have chosen to display, appears in its respective area of the portal desktop.