Your organization
determines the information that is appropriate for different groups
of users. Then, your portal administrator customizes the information
that is provided to those groups, and deploys different views of the
portal for each group.
Here are
the main tasks that administrators perform:
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Install the portal along with all
required servers and services, and configure the portal for your environment.
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Deploy the custom portlets and
applications that developers in your organization have created. Administrators
use the tools that are provided with the portal for this purpose.
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Deploy the reports, information
maps, stored processes, documents, and other content items that are
available for the portal.
Administrators can
also create XML data files that are based on SAS data sets, and then
add the data files to the WebDAV repository. Portal users can then
create WebDAV graph portlets to display this content.
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Configure settings that affect
portal behavior for your site. For example, administrators can enable
users to log on from the portal's timeout page.
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Customize the appearance
of the portal. For example, administrators can do the following:
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Create custom themes
and make the new themes available to portal users.
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Set up a default theme.
When users log on to the portal, they see the theme that is specified
as default.
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Change the default
preferences that were set during installation. For example, administrators
can change the locale that is used for the portal.
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Set the default values
for page navigation and package sort order.
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Configure portal security by defining
users and groups, by assigning users to groups, and by controlling
access to portal content.
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Set up portal views by creating
content and sharing the content selectively with different groups
of users. For example, administrators might share a set of Web pages,
portlets, and links with a group named Sales Managers. Users who belong
to this group see the shared content when they log on to the portal.
Users can also locate shared content using the search tool.