Making one portal appear as multiple portals

You can make your single portal installation appear as multiple portals with different URLs. The different portal representations show different pages with different look and feel for different authenticated users, depending on their group membership. To configure your portal for this, use the portlets for managing pages, layout and content, managing users and groups, and working with themes and skins. These portlets allow you to assign specific content, layout, themes and skins to pages, and to give user groups permissions to view specific pages. This way you can create pages with completely different content and visual representation for view by various user groups. The user groups can even be overlapping.

Notes:

  1. This option to configure your portal with different pages and look and feel representations works for authenticated users only, that is, for users who have logged in to the portal with their user ID and password. You cannot achieve the same effect for unauthenticated users, that is, before they log in to the portal. Before log in to the portal, the default page is the same for all users.
  2. The configuration described above is based on a single portal installation with a single user repository, such as LDAP. In such a configuration you cannot separate the user groups of the different portal representations into different user repositories to ensure user base data protection.
  3. WebSphere Application Server can only use one single setting for the LTPA Single Sign-On domain name. This setting is global for the WebSphere Application Server installation. Therefore all portals under the configuration described above have to use the same common domain suffix if they want to make use of the single sign-on feature provided by WebSphere Application Server. For more information refer to the WebSphere Application Server documentation.


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