Enterprise Portal allows you to create multiple cobrands (portals) hosted on one EP installation. Multiple co-brands allow you to create different looks for different portal audiences. For example, you could localize your portal and have each co-brand display content in a different language.
Previously, users were required to have a unique user name for each portal; that is, if you set up two portals, users has to have two different user names to log in, one for each co-brand.
EP allows users to log in to any co-brand using the same user name. This means users can have two (or more) concurrent sessions in two different browsers looking at two different co-brands.
For example, you can use co-branding to localize your portal content for different languages with different co-brands that display the content in French, English, Spanish, and Russian. The enhanced co-brand functionality allows a user to be logged in to several co-brands at the same time and simultaneously access content across the co-brands.
Each co-brand or resource has a row in the resources table,
that has a unique resource_id assigned
to it when the resource is created.
The users table has a resource_id foreign key reference that previously indicated the resource to which a user belonged. This reference remains, but now only indicates the default resource to which the user is taken to if no resource is explicitly specified in the Portal Interface URL.
See the Enterprise Portal Developer’s Guide, Chapter 14, “Creating Co-brands,” for detailed instructions on using portal co-brands.
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