Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Take a test drive of the site
Before you design and fully implement the portal, take thirty minutes to test drive and explore the default site. This tutorial offers you a step-by-step approach for getting started with the default site and provides examples of how you can arrange your site content and navigational layout. Once you complete each of these steps, you will understand what is provided to you after installation before performing significant design and development work.
Learning objectives
What does test driving the site actually involve? Test driving the site involves walking through the steps of this tutorial while logged in to the site to create a foundation for future design work. The learning objectives of this tour are as follows:- Discover the tips and tricks of getting started before you customize the site.
- Learn how to quickly navigate the site as you perform administrative tasks.
- Use various menus to access major site areas and work with pages and portlets.
- Create new site content by adding pages and portlets to the default site.
- Change the navigational scheme and the look and feel of the site.
This tutorial should take approximately 30 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.
Audience
In this tour, you assume the role of an administrator walking through the default interface.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have already installed the product and are logged in to the site. See Before you start administering the portal for instructions on launching and logging in to the site.
Expected results
The purpose of this test drive is that you become familiar with the layout of the default site, many of the features available to you, how to navigate in the site, and how to perform basic administrative tasks.
Lessons in this tutorial
- Step 1: Creating a page in the Home area of the site
Step 1 of this tutorial walks you through creating a page in the Home area of the site. This page will display in the site navigation. - Step 2: Creating subpages on your new page
Step 2 of this tutorial walks you through adding a subpage to the page you created in the Home area of the site in Step 1. - Step 3: Adding a portlet to your new page
Step 3 of this tutorial demonstrates how quickly and you can customize the new page you created in Step 1 by dragging a portlet to the page from the Portlet Palette. - Step 4: Changing the navigational layout on your new page
Step 4 of this tutorial demonstrates how you can continue to customize your new page by changing the navigational layout. - Step 5: Adding entries to the main menu
Step 5 of this tutorial demonstrates how to add and rearrange entries in the main menu. - Step 6: Hiding pages on the site
Step 6 of this tutorial demonstrates how to hide pages on the site using visibility rules. The goal of this tutorial is to hide the Career and Life page that you created in Step 5 so that it does not display in the site or in the main menu on Fridays through Mondays.
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