Technically, a composite portal is a user portal defined by a collection of harness rules that each references a panel set. Each harness rule defines a space — an entire portal window.

On the Skins tab of the Portal form, the Type value Composite identifies a composite portal.

V5.5 includes two sample composite portals: User and Manager. Compared with the traditional portals (WorkManager and WorkUser), composite portals offer these advantages:

• Ease of customization. Areas of the portal are defined by harness and section rules, rather than by gadgets.
• Allow workers and managers to have multiple work objects open at once. (This uses the Work Area control's Multiple Document Interface.)
• Greater flexibility in layout and behavior.
• For users who create work in multiple applications, switching occurs at the application level, not at the individual work pool level.
• Application users can search for work objects using full-text search.
• Supports Mozilla Firefox 2+ browsers and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 browsers.
• Allow use of advanced controls including the dynamic menu, document view control and DataGrid control.
• Localizable
• Works with the Integrated Work Manager

Composite portals are recommended for new applications.

	gadget, Integrated Work Manager, panel set, space, traditional portal
	About Harness rules About Portal rules How to create a composite portal
	Atlas — Standard Portal rules

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