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Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

 

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.

The Home area of the default portal currently contains two default pages: Welcome and Getting Started. Pages in the Home area of the site provide you with an organizational solution for displaying content and can serve as launch points to other pages and key areas of interest in the site.

Tips and notes:

You can also create subpages on pages located in the site navigation to organize your information and to add another navigational element to the site.

 

To create a new page:

  1. Click Administration from the main menuAccessing the Main Menu

  2. Click Manage Pages directly from the navigation. Manage Pages presents you with the entire site hierarchy and lets you add, rearrange, and edit all of the pages in your site.

    You can also access Manage Pages by clicking Portal User Interface > Manage Pages. Accessing Manage Pages

  3. To start exploring and working with your site, click Content Root.

    • The content root contains all of the top level site areas. You will learn how to control which of these top level site areas appear in the main menu at a later phase of this tutorial.

    • You can create pages, labels, or URLs under the content root. A page displays content such as subpages and portlets in a single area. A label can be thought of as notebook divider and functions only as an organizational container. A URL can launch external Web sites or pages in the site. In this example, you will learn how to create a page under the Home area of the content root.

    Viewing the content root in Manage Pages

  4. Click Home.

    • The Home area is just one of the top level site areas that is located under the content root.

    • The Label icon beside Home indicates that this area is a label.

    Working with the content root

  5. Click New page.

    From Manage Pages, you see that the Home label currently contains two pagesPage, which are Welcome and Getting Started. This organizational structure is also seen when you initially logged in to the site and saw the Welcome and Getting Started pages in the site navigation and saw Home listed in the main menu. Creating a new page under the content root

  6. In Page Properties, type in the name of your new page in the Title field and click OK. In this example, you can type My Page as the title of this new page.

    You can specify other page properties such as theme, page layout, navigation type, page type, and caching options for your new page. For this example, you can use the default values for these page properties or try out different options. Refer to the portlet help for more detailed instructions for using Page Properties as you explore the various options. Defining Page Properties for your new page

  7. Notice that your new page is listed in Manage Pages as one of the pages in the Home area of the site.

    Click Move up or Move down as appropriate to change the order of My Page in the site navigation. Viewing your new page in Manage Pages

  8. Exit Administration by clicking Home from the main menu.

    You can also click Home in the quick links bar located at the bottom of the page to return to the Home area of the site. Exiting Administration

You have successfully created your new page.Viewing My Page in the Home Area

 

Tutorial checkpoint

During this segment of the tutorial, you have learned the following:




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