Using Portal Studio

Portal Studio is a Web application, and you must log in using Internet Explorer.

Logging in to the Portal Studio

Log in to Portal Studio by entering the following URL in your Internet Explorer browser:
```
http://HOSTNAME.PORTALDOMAIN:8080/onepage/index.html
```
For example, if your machine name is “tahiti”, and your portal domain is “enterprise.com,” enter:
```
http://tahiti.enterprise.com:8080/onepage/index.html
```
If you are running the Demo version of Enterprise Portal, enter:
```
http://demo.sybase.com:4040/onepage/index.html
```
In a development environment, your port number may be different, and in a production system, the port number may not be necessary at all.
When the Portal Studio Login window displays, enter the user name and password for a user with portal administrator privileges and click Login.
You see the Portal Studio welcome window.

Figure 1-2: Portal Studio welcome window

The welcome window displays the:

Left pane menus – select from five menus that allow you to:
- Build – create, edit, and manage portlets, templates, catalogs, pages, page groups, and application portlets.
- Automate – create agents to automatically process portlet content, or use adapters to write portlet content to an e-mail, database, or file system.
- Manage – manage Portal Studio resources and create predefined portlet input fields or drop-down lists, which users can later to personalize with their own values.
- Administer – access Enterprise Security to create Portal Studio user accounts, resources, and assets. This menu option requires the Portal Security Officer (PSO) role.
- Configure – configure the security domain assets. This menu option requires the PSO role.
Status bar – always shows the user name of the person logged in to Portal Studio (User), the group of portal pages available to this user (Resource).
Toolbar – this is the Portal Studio’s static toolbar. From this toolbar, you can view your account information, access online help, and log out of Portal Studio. Once you make a selection from the left pane, an option-specific toolbar displays, which is discussed in the next section.