Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.1

User Guide

For use with Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.1.

Edition 6.1.1

Jared Morgan

Aakanksha Singh

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Abstract

This document provides an easy to follow guide to the functions and options available in Red Hat JBoss Portal. It is intended to be accessible and useful to both experienced and novice portal users.
Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. Getting Help and Giving Feedback
2.1. Do You Need Help?
2.2. Give us Feedback
I. Introduction
1. About the Portal
1.1. Related Links
1.2. Product Documentation
1.3. Supported Browsers
1.4. Accessibility Statement
2. Terminology
2.1. What is a Portal
2.2. What is a Portlet
2.3. What is a Portlet Container
2.4. What is the Toolbar
2.5. What are Gadgets
2.6. About Navigations
2.7. About Modes
2.8. About Permissions
3. Elements of the Portal
3.1. Functional Portlets
3.2. Interface Portlets
3.3. The Dashboard
3.4. Using the Dashboard Workspace
3.5. Add Gadgets
4. Toolbar
4.1. What is the Toolbar
4.2. User Actions in the Toolbar
4.3. Administration Actions in the Toolbar
II. Portal Administration
5. Portals
5.1. Create a New Portal
5.2. Access a Portal
5.3. Edit Portal Layout
5.4. Edit Portal Navigation
5.5. Edit Portal Properties
5.6. Delete a Portal
5.7. Change Portal Skins
5.8. Switch Between Portals
5.9. Manage Services
6. Portlets and Gadgets
6.1. Import Portlets and Gadgets
6.2. Manage Portlets and Gadgets
6.3. Display Gadgets
6.4. Add a new Category
6.5. Edit a Category
6.6. Delete a Category
6.7. Add Applications to a Category
6.8. Set Access Permission on Portlets
6.9. View/Edit portlet/gadget information
6.10. Add a Gadget
6.11. Manage Gadgets
6.12. Edit a Gadget
7. Navigation Nodes
7.1. Manage Navigation Nodes
7.2. Add a new node
7.3. Edit a node
7.4. Copy a node
7.5. Clone nodes
7.6. Cut a node
7.7. Delete a node
7.8. Change Node Order
8. Pages
8.1. Add a New Page using the Page Creation Wizard
8.2. Add a New Page using Page Management
8.3. Edit a Page
8.4. Delete a Page
8.5. Drag and Drop the Page Body
III. Site Administration
9. Language
9.1. Change Interface Language
9.2. Language for a user
9.3. Set language for a user
9.4. Right To Left Support
9.5. Multi-Language Navigation Nodes
9.6. Key Format
9.7. Creating Keys
9.8. Creating Keys using Create Page Wizard
9.9. Creating/Editing Keys using
9.10. Providing translation
10. Permissions
10.1. Manage Permissions
10.2. Set Portal Permissions
10.3. Set Access Permissions on a Portal
10.4. Set Edit Permissions on a Portal
10.5. Set Page Permission
10.6. Set Access Permissions on a Page
10.7. Set Edit Permissions on a Page
10.8. Set Access Permission on a Category
10.9. Set Access Permission on a Portlet
11. Site Redirection
11.1. Site Redirection
11.2. About Site Redirection
11.3. Manage Site Redirections
12. Mobile and Responsive Portal Site
12.1. Creating a Responsive Site
12.2. Portal Skin
12.3. Viewport
12.4. Mobile Template
12.5. Responsive Portlets
12.6. Portlet Layout
12.7. Creating Responsive Portlets
12.8. Manually Removing the Mobile Site
12.9. Deleting the Mobile Site and Configuration
IV. Accounts, Memberships, Groups, and Users
13. Accounts
13.1. Register New Accounts
13.2. Captcha Behavior
13.3. Sign In and Sign Out
13.4. Sign In
13.5. Sign Out
13.6. Remember User Account
13.7. Change Account Settings
13.8. Account and Password Retrieval
14. Memberships
14.1. Manage memberships
14.2. Add a new membership type
14.3. Edit a membership type
14.4. Delete a membership type
15. Groups
15.1. Manage groups
15.2. Add a New Group
15.3. Edit a group
15.4. Add a new user to a group
15.5. Edit the user membership in a group
15.6. Delete a group
16. Users
16.1. Manage Users and Groups
16.2. Roles
16.3. Manage users
16.4. Add a user
16.5. Search for users
16.6. Edit a user
16.7. Delete a user
A. Revision History