The Portal's Graphical Interface

Before you attempt to understand how content is organized in the portal, it's helpful to explore the portal's graphical interface. Here is an example of a portal:
Note: Your organization might customize the portal so that it looks different from the example shown here.
Information Delivery Portal
You can use the following elements to navigate between different areas of the portal:
One Navigation bar
The navigation bar contains links for your portal Web pages. You open a different page by clicking its name in the navigation bar. In the display, the portal's Home page is the active Web page. Notice that the Home link is highlighted on the navigation bar.
Two Portlets
Portlets are the rectangular display components of a portal page that contain links, graphs, reports, and other information that is available in the portal. You can edit the contents of some portlets. To edit, remove, or minimize a portlet, use the icons in the portlet title bar. For more information about portlets, see About Portlets.
Three Banner links
To perform portal tasks, use the banner links as follows:
  • Click Customize and Options in the banner to display menus that you can use to personalize your portal. For example, you can add and remove pages, change the appearance of your pages, rearrange portal elements, create portal content, and perform other tasks. For more information about personalization, see Overview of Personalization.
  • Click Search to find content that you are authorized to access.
  • To log off the portal, click the Log Off link.
Four Portal links
To view information or to launch applications that are available to you through the portal, click any active link that is displayed inside a portlet.
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