Portal Administration Guide 

Purpose

This guide discusses the authoring, deployment, and administrative aspects of a custom portal implementation at design time.

Main topics include system landscape, creating and managing portal content, assembling a portal page, working with roles, navigation, user management, and performing branding and design changes. To facilitate the use of this guide, most of it is structured according to the pre-configured roles shipped with the portal (see Pre-configured Roles).

 

Features

SAP NetWeaver Portal is a scalable portal, with an open architecture capable of integrating unlimited content. Portal content is designed to retrieve information from varied information sources such as Web sites, groupware applications, legacy systems, enterprise applications, databases, and document directories.

The portal provides a complete set of tools to administer, manage and monitor the portal within one coherent environment. These administrative tools are designed as modular portal pages or iViews, enabling you to delegate administration tasks according to your business scenario (see Delegated Administration).

 

Integration

Following the installation of the portal, the initial configuration steps, and the delegation of administration tasks and initial content, the portal administrator tools are used to import and create custom portal content, and to build roles which are comprised of specific subsets of portal content for designated groups of enterprise users.

Other services and procedures that are closely, but indirectly involved in information processing and distribution to portal users are also described in this guide. For example, user management, monitoring the portal server, and changing the portal design to reflect your company brand.