Portal Content: Concepts You Should Know
This section - with its subtopics - gives an overview of portal-specific information that describes important concepts concerning the types of portal content available, how the content is stored, and how it can be created and managed.
The following table describes the types and sources of portal content:
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Standard portal content |
SAP ships initial content with the portal. This content consists mostly of tools and services for administering and monitoring the portal. The content is assigned to pre-configured administration roles. In addition, it enables the distribution of portal administrative responsibility to distinct administrative roles, such as the default roles of super administrator, content administrator, user administrator, and system administrator. For more information, see Understanding Preconfigured Portal Roles . The initial content also consists of iViews intended for portal end users, such as the Universal Worklist and Welcome iViews. |
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Self-developed content |
Customers can use a range of portal tools to develop their own content and deploy it in the portal. The administration tools in the Portal Content Studio, such as its wizards, can be used to create or modify content without the need to write a single line of code. Users with programming knowledge can develop content using the Portal Development Kit (PDK). For more information, see Using the Portal Content Studio and Developing Applications for the Portal . |
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Business packages |
SAP delivers ready-to-use solutions in the form of business packages, which are preconfigured collections of role-based portal content that customers can import into their portal. The use of business packages minimizes time to deployment, streamlines common business processes, and provides immediate productivity. For more information, see Transporting Portal Objects . |
For information about importing and exporting content to and from the portal, see Transporting Portal Objects and XML Content and Actions .
Portal Content Directory (PCD)
The Portal Content Directory (PCD) is the central repository for all portal objects. It stores the name and properties of each object, and the relationships between the objects.
For more information, see Administering the Portal Content Directory (PCD) .
The Portal Catalog represents a specific view of the data in the PCD. It is part of the Portal Content Studio, the administration tool with which you can create and edit portal content. The Portal Catalog provides access to the content objects stored in the PCD using a tree structure. For more information, see Using the Portal Catalog and Using the Portal Content Studio .
The following topics describe concepts that you should understand in order to facilitate the creation, modification, linking and management of objects in the portal.