The SAS Information
Delivery Portal gives each user a personalized virtual workplace within
a Web browser. This workplace is referred to as a portal view. When
you deploy the portal, you can create initial portal views for different
groups of users by sharing pages and content with the groups.
For example, suppose
that you want to provide different types of information to engineers,
to sales people, and to managers. You might first create an "engineers,"
"sales," and a "managers" group identity in SAS metadata. Then, you
might create pages, add information to the pages, and share the pages
and information with the appropriate group. When users log on to the
portal, those users who belong to one of these groups see the pages
that were shared with the group. This enables you to ensure that users
have access only to the information that is appropriate for them.
(To make information available to everyone in your organization, you
can share information with the PUBLIC group.)
To facilitate the process
of deploying views, you can designate a group content administrator
for a group that is defined in SAS metadata. This person can then
assume responsibility for sharing information with the respective
group. For instructions, see
Group Content Administrator.