Portal Development Tasks

Your developers can create custom portlets, logos, and content items that best suit your organization.
Here are the main tasks that developers perform:
  • Develop the content that your organization needs. Developers can share this task with others in the organization. For example, developers might create stored processes and publication channels, whereas business analysts might create SAS Information Maps and reports.
  • Use the Portlet application programming interface (API) that is provided with the portal in order to create custom portlets. These portlets might display data, text, and graphics that are suitable for the types of information that you want to deliver. Developers can create interactive portlets that accept input from the user. After the user provides input, the portlet might perform some action in response to the input. Portlets that are created with the API have a standard appearance, including a title bar that contains icons.
  • Create the resources, such as logos, that your organization can use for custom themes. Themes control the appearance of the portal and of SAS solutions that run in the portal. A theme consists of cascading style sheets (CSS) and graphical elements, including the portal banner, background image, and logo.
  • Develop Web applications that are integrated with the portal. These applications can be invoked from the portal without an additional logon.