About Pages

The SAS Information Delivery Portal includes three types of pages: personal pages, group pages, and public pages.

Personal pages are pages that you create. After you create a page, you maintain complete control over it, including the right to edit it or delete it. No other user (except the portal administrator) can search for or see your personal pages.

If you are a group content administrator, then you can share a personal page that you created. Pages can be shared as either group pages or public pages, as described in the next section.

Group pages are pages that have been shared with a particular group of portal users. Public pages are pages that have been shared with the Public group, which includes all portal users.

To share a page with a group, you must be authorized as a group content administrator for that group. Content administrators can also share portlets, links, applications, and syndication channels that they created. Within a shared page or portlet, users are shown only the content that they are authorized to see.

Pages can be shared with a share type of available, default, or persistent, as described below:

• Available pages are pages that all users in the group can find by using the search tool. Any user in the group can add these pages to his or her personal portal.
• Default pages are pages that a group content administrator has added to the portals of all users in the group. The users can then remove these pages if they do not need them.
• Persistent pages are pages that a group content administrator has added to the portals of all users in the group. Users cannot remove persistent pages.

Shared pages have the label Shared, Default, or Persistent in the upper right corner, followed by the name of the group. For example:

• A page that was shared with the Sales group as available would have the label Shared: Sales.
• A page that was shared with the Public group as default would have the label Default: Public.
• A page that was shared with the Sales group as persistent would have the label Persistent: Sales.

Group pages and public pages can be changed only by a group content administrator. For more information, see the following topics:

• Overview of Sharing Content
• Share a Page

When you create or edit a page, you can specify the layout for the page. Two different types of layouts are available:

• a column layout, in which the portal page is divided into one, two, or three columns
• a grid layout, in which the portal page is divided into one, two, or three columns and a specified number of rows

If you specify a column layout, portlets are arranged on the page in the number of columns that you specify: one, two, or three columns. You can specify the percentage width of each column and the portlets that are to appear in each column.

Within each column, you can specify the order in which the portlets are displayed. Each portlet occupies the amount of vertical space that it needs, and each succeeding portlet is displayed directly under the preceding portlet.

Here is an example of a column layout with two equal columns:

Here is an example of a column layout with three unequal columns:

If you specify a grid layout, then the portlets are lined up both vertically (in columns) and horizontally (in rows). You specify the number of columns (one, two, or three), the percentage width of each column, and the number of rows.

You then specify which portlet is to appear in each cell of the grid. The height of each row is equal to the height of the largest portlet in that row.

If you want a portlet to span multiple rows or multiple columns, you can do so by specifying the same portlet in contiguous cells. The contiguous cells must form a rectangle.

Here is an example of a grid layout in which each cell contains a different portlet:

Here is an example of a grid layout in which one portlet spans two columns and another portlet spans two rows:

Here is an example of a grid layout in which a portlet spans two columns and two rows, occupying a total of four cells: