Portal Display 
Purpose
The portal workspace viewed by any portal user is comprised of various user interface units, which provide the interactive capabilities of the portal. The onscreen display of this workspace is governed by structural layout and design components that spatially arrange the navigational and content components in the workspace and provide their look and feel.
When a user logs on to the portal, the portal display he or she receives an integrated portal desktop—a combination of the user interface components described above.
The services and tools described in the topics that follow, enable you to create and manage any number portal desktops to suit your business scenario. Through the use of customizable display rules, you can allocate portal desktops with varying designs, branding, or layouts to different scenarios, departments, and sub-companies in your work environment.
Integration
The following components are required for configuring the portal display:
|
Object |
Function |
Description |
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Framework page |
Defines the layout and structure of a portal desktop. |
A portal page comprising the entire set of user interface units required by a user to operate and navigate the portal |
|
Portal theme |
Provides the look and feel of a portal desktop. |
A portal object containing the definitions that describe the visual appearance of the control elements, font size, colors, and contrast of the user interface elements in a portal desktop. |
|
Portal desktop |
Enables framework pages and portal themes to be assigned as a combined entity to portal users using scenario- and user-specific display rules. |
A container-type portal object comprising selected framework pages and portal themes. |
|
Rule collection (portal display rule) |
Provides a means for assigning portal desktops to users at runtime. |
A portal object containing the rules that describe the conditions for assigning portal desktops to users using either direct user-, group-, and role-specific parameters, or indirect platform-specific parameters, such as connection bandwidth, browser type, or browser version. |
For more information, see the following:
Workflow for Portal Display Configuration