Once you log in to Portal Studio, you can choose the Portal Studio objects with which you want to work and have permission to access:
Objects you access from the Build menu include:
Portlets – create, edit, delete, and manage portlets and their content. See Chapter 4, “Building Portlets,” and Chapter 5, “Advanced Portlet Creation.”
Templates – define the organization of aggregate portlets (portlets with more than one element), where portlets are located, background HTML code, and so on. Most portal pages contain an aggregate or collection of portlets. You can use the templates you create in the Page Builder. See Chapter 8, “Building Templates.”
Catalogs – create user-defined hierarchies of content for display in a portal. Catalogs allow you to choose how your content is organized. See Chapter 9, “Building Catalogs.”
Pages – create, edit, delete, and manage the portal pages on which portlets display. See Chapter 10, “Building Pages.”
Page Groups – create, edit, delete, and manage page groups to group and organize portal pages. See Chapter 11, “Building Page Groups.”
Applications – create virtual Web applications using portlets. See Chapter 5, “Advanced Portlet Creation.”
Objects you access from the Automate menu include:
Agents – create, edit, manage, start, stop, and view logs for agents that automatically process portlet content. See “Using agents”.
Adapters – create, edit, manage, and view logs for adapters that write portlet content to e-mails, databases, or file systems. See “Using adapters”.
Servers – create, manage, and view logs for servers on which agents run. See “Using agent servers”.
Objects that you access from the Manage menu include:
Resources – create and manage portal resources, also referred to as co-brands. Different resources can represent departments, divisions, or organizations for which you want different content and a different portal look and feel. See Chapter 14, “Creating Co-brands.”
Roles – create, edit, and manage the roles that define role-based access to portal objects. “Using J2EE role-based security”.
Users – edit users that have logged in to the portal and manage the resource with which they are associated. See “Creating users”.
Objects you access from the Administer menu include:
Users – create, edit, delete, and manage your organization’s user accounts. The information in each user’s account determines whether the user is allowed to log in to the portal. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Enterprise Security on-line help in Portal Studio.
Groups – create and edit groups that organize users in a way that is meaningful to your enterprise. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Enterprise Security on-line help in Portal Studio.
Roles – create and edit J2EE roles. Enterprise Security enforces a role-based access control policy for the portal, which enables you to maintain individual accountability. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Enterprise Security on-line help in Portal Studio.
Assets – create and edit the assets that represent portal objects in your security system. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Enterprise Security on-line help in Portal Studio.
Object you access from the Configure menu include:
Security Domain Roles – create and edit J2EE roles. Enterprise Security enforces a role-based access control policy for the portal, which enables you to maintain individual accountability. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Organizations | Roles on-line help in Portal Studio.
Security Domain Assets – create and edit the assets that represent portal objects in your security system. See the Enterprise Security Administration Guide or the Organizations | Assets on-line help in Portal Studio.
Once you make a selection from the Portal Studio left pane, the Manager menu, detail window, and toolbar for the selected component display.
You must select from an object’s Manager menu
for information to display in the detail window. Figure 1-3 displays the
window you see when you choose Build | Portlets and select
Approved from the Portlet Manager Status menu.
