Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Manage pages, layout, and content
WebSphere Portal provides tools that enable administrators to control the content, appearance, and behavior of the portal. Administrators can control access by configuring these tools and setting access rights.
A page is a resource to which permissions can be managed by the administrator.
Permissions are based on roles, and all of the page creation, deletion, reordering, and customization capabilities can be restricted, based on the role assigned to a user or user group.
- Portal structure
Before making changes to the portal pages, it is helpful to understand the structure of the portal. - Portal navigation and browser Back button behavior
Read this section to learn how the behavior of the Web browser Back button can affect portal navigation. - Overview of managing pages
Read about the different tasks associated with the Manage Pages portlet. 
Manage pages
Manage Pages allows you to create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages as well as external Web pages and labels. Available tasks depend on which item is selected. Each page can contain multiple pages. All pages on which you have the User or greater role are displayed in a navigation menu. You must expand pages to access nested pages. The options that you see are dependent upon your access level.- Add portlets to a page with the Portlet Palette
The Portlet Palette provides you with a collection of portlets that you can drag to the page for quick and easy page customization. - Rearrange portlets on a page
You can change the placement of individual portlets on a page using the drag-and-drop feature of the portal. - Customize pages
The page customizer contains portlets for editing the layout, content, and appearance of pages. It also provides the Wires portlet, which allows users to set up connections between cooperative portlets on a page, and the Locks portlet, which allows users to lock and unlock containers and container content. You can configure the settings for these portlets to show a certain set of functions, restricting basic users from performing more advanced tasks. - Delayed cleanup of deleted portal pages
This section describes the cleanup service for portal pages and their dependent resources. - Delete orphaned data
This topic describes how you delete orphaned data in the database. To do this, you use the SLCheckerTool.