About Pages

Overview of Pages

In the SAS Information Delivery Portal, pages are the primary means of organizing information. Here is an example portal with pages named Home, Sales, Outlook, and Utilities:

To display a page, click the name of the page in the navigation bar. The page appears in the browser window, with the name of the page highlighted in the navigation bar. In the above example, the page named Home is highlighted.

Types of Pages

Overview: Types of Pages

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

Note: The SAS Information Delivery Portal also includes page templates. See About Page Templates.

Personal 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 and Public Pages

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:

Understanding Page Layouts

Overview: Page Layouts

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

Column Layout

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:

Portal page with column layout (two columns)

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

Portal page with column layout (two unequal columns)

Grid Layout

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:

Portal page with grid layout (one portlet per cell)

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

Portlet page with grid layout (one portlet spanning two rows, one portlet spanning two columns)

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

Portal page with grid layout (one portlet spanning four cells)

Actions That You Can Take with Pages

You can take the following actions with pages:

Add a page by creating a new page or by adding a predefined page to your portal. Predefined pages include public pages, group pages that you are authorized to access, and personal pages that you created previously. See Create a New Page or Add a Predefined Page.
Edit the properties of a page that you created by modifying the label, description, keywords, or page rank. If you are a group content administrator, you can also modify the group with which the page is shared. See Edit the Properties of a Page.
Edit the contents of a page that you created by specifying the portlets that will be displayed, the page layout, and the position of the portlets within the layout. See Edit the Contents of a Page.
Create a new portlet and add it to a page, or add a predefined portlet to a page. See Creating a New Portlet and Add a Predefined Portlet to a Page.
Remove pages or portlets that you no longer need. See Remove or Delete a Page and Removing or Deleting a Portlet .
Share pages publicly or with a group, if you are a group content administrator. See Share a Page.
Change the order of pages in your navigation bar. See Change the Navigation Bar Position or the Order of Pages.
Use the View Page History option to view a list of all of the pages that are or have been part of your personal portal. You can also use this option to restore default pages to your personal portal. See Manage Page History.
Create a page template to share with the members of a group, if you are a group content administrator.See Create and Share a Page Template.