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Customize Process Portal
You can customize the appearance of your Process Portal in various ways, such as customizing the login page and the banner.
Process Portal supports the customization of these areas:
- Login page: You can make superficial changes to the appearance of the login page.
- Banner: You can modify the content, appearance, or behavior of the banner that appears at the top of Process Portal.
- Theme: Themes control the navigation, appearance, and layout of Process Portal. You can modify the appearance of the page, including the colors, fonts, and images.
The Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is used to store and deploy the artifacts used for the Process Portal theme.
If you customize the theme, deploy the updated artifacts using WebDAV. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to cooperatively edit and manage files on remote web servers. Most operating systems provide built-in support for WebDAV.
- Connecting to the WebDav folder to customize Process Portal
You can use web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to make and deploy customized login pages and banners to Process Portal. WebDAV provides a network protocol for creating interoperable, collaborative applications.
- Customize the login page for Process Portal
You can customize the login page of Process Portal so that it has the logo and colors of your company.
- Customize banners in Process Portal
Process Portal has a banner at the top of the window that contains tabs for navigating to the work and dashboards pages, and links to user preferences, help documentation, and logout. In IBM BPM Advanced, a link is also provided to link to business spaces.- Customize themes in Process Portal
A theme defines the overall structure, appearance, and behavior of Process Portal.You can customize the standard theme that is provided with Process Portal.
- Customize Process Portal spaces
You can customize the behavior and the appearance of your spaces in various ways, from small changes like modifying default link text to large-scale changes like customizing the entire theme.
- Building Process Portal spaces for participating in processes
The Human Task Management widgets that are delivered with IBM BPM Advanced provide a means for using Process Portal spaces to participate in business processes. When you build these spaces for different user groups, consider the roles and work patterns of these users, the type of process and tasks that these users work with, and the data that they need while completing their work.