Using the Federated Portal Network

The portal runtime environment provides users with a single point of access to internal and external information, applications, and services that are relevant to their role in the organization. Similarly, in a federated portal network, business users are able to log on to their designated portal and seamlessly access portal information, services and applications including that distributed on portals over the entire organizational network.

This IT process describes the general steps that business users perform in the portal to complete their daily tasks, from the time they log on to the time they log off.

Use of the Process

This process is part of the following IT scenarios:

Prerequisites

• Portal administrators have performed the process steps described in Creating Federated Portal Network Content and Maintaining the Federated Portal Network .
• The system administrator has supplied you with the portal logon URL.

Process Flow

1. Log on to the portal.
2. Personalize portal preferences where applicable, such as setting your portal theme, portal language, user mapping, and user profile.
   Note If your role has been configured to allow your own user mapping for iViews based on remote applications, you can do so in the  Personalize (in the portal masthead area)  User Mapping (Remote iViews)   screen.
3. If permitted to do so, personalize content (choose which iViews are displayed per page and personalize iView properties).
4. Work in the portal to perform daily business-related tasks.
5. Log off from the portal.

Result

Business users are able to accomplish their day-to-day tasks by interacting with their portal through a single portal URL. The portal provides them all the information, application, and service resources relevant to their role in the organization.

If the organization permits it, the portal desktop is fully customizable-enabling users to personalize the look and feel of the portal desktop and its content according to their personal preferences and needs.