Personalizing Portal Pages

Your administrator defines a default layout and the content for each page assigned to you, as well as whether or not you are allowed to change the default settings for a page.

If you have proper authorization, you can:

Change the layout to other layouts that have been assigned to the page
Add other iViews that have been assigned to you but which do not currently appear on the page
Reposition the iViews on a page

Personalization is done in the Personalize Page environment, whose tree structure displays the following two nodes:

Personalized Page: Lists the iViews ( (iView icon)) that are part of the page, including iViews that have been set to invisible ( (Invisible iView)). You can display an invisible iView by choosing Add iView to Page from the context menu of the iView.
Portal Content: Displays all the content assigned to you, allowing you to add other iViews and pages to the page.

Procedure

Open the page that you want to personalize.
From the page title bar, choose the Options icon and from the dropdown menu choose Personalize.
The Personalize Page screen of the page in focus opens.

Note
If your portal administrator has configured the portal to use the Ajax Framework Page, you access the Personalize Page screen via the Personalize menu in the header area.

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Follow the appropriate procedure as described in Personalizing Options, below.
Save your settings.
Choose Refresh and then, optionally, click Preview to view your changes in the portal work environment.

Personalization Options

You can perform the following operations to personalize your portal pages:

Select a new layout:

From the Show Layout dropdown list, choose your preferred layout.

Layouts provided with the portal
Image	Description
	1 Column (Full Width)
	2 Columns (Equal Width)
	2 Columns (Narrow:Wide)
	2 Columns (Wide:Narrow)
	3 Columns (Narrow:Wide:Narrow)
	T-Layout (Top - Full Width; Bottom - 2 Equal Width)
	T-Layout (Top - Full Width; Bottom - Narrow:Wide)
	T-Layout (Top - Full Width; Bottom - Wide:Narrow)
	Double-T (Top/Bottom - Full Width; Middle - 2 Equal Width)

A single item in the list means that the administrator assigned only the default layout when creating the page.
If the new layout you select consists of more than one column, all of content in the page is automatically displayed in the first column. You can then arrange the content as you wish.

Repositioning iViews:

Specify the column in which you want to display an iView by doing the following:
1. Select the iView you want to reposition.
2. From the Move to Container dropdown list, choose the target column.
3. Choose Move.
Microsoft Internet Explorer users:

If you are working in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can also change the column assignments by dragging the iView that you want to reposition to the desired column.
Specify the position of an iView within its column by doing the following:
1. Select the iView you want to reposition.
2. Choose Up or Down to position the iView accordingly.
Microsoft Internet Explorer users:

If you are working in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can also arrange the order of iViews by dragging them to the desired position in the column, as indicated by a red bar.

Adding iViews/Pages:

The navigation panel displays a list of all the content assigned to you.

To add an iView or page to the page that you are personalizing, in the context menu of the item, choose Add iView / Page to Page.
You can add the same iView to a page more than once by repeating the Add iView to Page operation.
When you add a page to a page, it inserts into the first column, and displays according to its own layout. Therefore, if you add a page that has a two-column layout, with iViews in both columns, that page fits into the first column of the page that you are personalizing, and displays its two columns, but on a smaller scale.
If you want to reposition the page that you added, you must move the entire page; you cannot move its individual elements.

Searching for Content to Add

The Search tab in the navigation panel allows you to search the Portal Catalog for an iView or page that you may want to add to a page.

For example, you may not be familiar with all the content that you have received, but you are interested in adding an iView that accesses a world news site. You can enter World News in the search field to see if such an iView exists and if you can add it to your page.

To find content and add it to your page:

Choose the Search tab.
From the Search In dropdown list, select either Entire Portal Catalog or Selected Folder to focus your search.
Choose whether you want to search according to the Name, ID, or Description property of an object.
In the Search String field, enter a keyword, and choose Search.

Note
Search is case-sensitive

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In the search results pane, in the context menu of the item you want to add to the page, choose Add iView to Page.

Removing iViews/Pages from a Page

When you delete an object from a page by choosing Remove, you do not delete it from your assigned content. It remains marked as invisible under the Personalized Page node of the navigation panel and can be reinstated on the page at any time.

Note Note

This icon (Mandatory iView icon) indicates a mandatory iView that cannot be removed from the page during personalization.

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Reverting to Default Settings

Choose Restore Defaults to reset the content and layout of the page to the default settings defined by the content administrator.