What the Portal Contains

The following table lists the types of content that can be accessed through the SAS Information Delivery Portal. Your installation of the portal might include some or all of these types of content. The content you see depends on which types your portal administrator has made available and which SAS software products your organization has installed.
The first column in the table shows the icon that is associated with each content type. When content items are listed in a portlet or in the search results, the icon indicates the item's content type. You can move your cursor over the icon to see the description of the content type displayed in a pop-up box.
For information about viewing the various types of content in the portal, see About Viewing Content.
Types of Content in the Portal
Icon
Content Type
Description
icon for application
application
a Web application that has been made accessible from the portal.
Data exploration icon
data exploration
a document that contains stored views of information maps.
icon for file
file
a file of any type.
icon for SAS Information Map
SAS Information Map
a user-friendly definition of physical data sources that enables business users to query a data warehouse to meet specific business needs. Information maps might be available to view in the portal if your organization has installed SAS Information Map Studio.
icon for a link
link
content that is accessible using a universal resource locator (URL). As a portal user, you can add your own links to the portal.
icon for a package
package
a collection of structured and unstructured content that has been published using the SAS Publishing Framework. You can view published packages in the portal.
icon for a page
page
a page in the SAS Information Delivery Portal that contains portlets. Each page is represented by a tab in the portal's navigation bar. You can create, add, edit, rearrange, and remove pages in your personal portal. In addition, pages can be shared either publicly or with a group of users.
icon for a portlet
portlet
a rectangular component of the SAS Information Delivery Portal in which content and links to content are displayed. A page can contain any number of portlets. You can create, add, edit, rearrange, and remove portlets on your personal portal pages.
icon for a publication channel
publication channel
a channel that has been established using the SAS Publishing Framework and which can be used to publish information to users and applications. You can use the portal to subscribe to, view the contents of, and publish content to publication channels.
icon for a report
SAS Report
a report that has been stored in the SAS Report Model format. Reports are available for viewing in either SAS Web Report Viewer or SAS Web Report Studio, depending on the software that your organization has installed.
icon for a stored process
SAS Stored Process
a SAS program that is stored in a central location and is available to be executed from the portal at your request. Stored processes create reports that includes the most current available data. The stored process might display an input form that enables you to customize the report contents.
icon for a syndication channel
syndication channel
a channel that provides syndicated, continuously updated Web content. Syndication channels are based on the RSS (Rich Site Summary) standard XML format.
To find out what content is available to you, navigate through your pages and use the search tool to locate content that is of interest to you.