The left panel of the portal is known as the navigation panel.

For User composite portals, this area contains the Work Pool Selector, a broadcast message, and (for managers) the bars used to switch from workspace to workspace. See About Composite portals.

For the Designer Studio, the navigation area contains the Explorer tools.

C-1762Through a portal rule, you can modify the appearance and contents of the navigation panel, including the logo image, the Launch link, Help link and Log off link.

Some forms in the workspace are wide. To view more of the workspace, click the collapse arrow () at the top right of the navigation panel to temporarily hide the navigation. Click the expand arrow () to restore the navigation panel.

Using standard Windows drag operations, you can select and grow or shrink the width of the navigation panel.

Through use of a skin rule, the navigation panel can be placed on the right rather than the left side of the portal. This feature helps support localization into right-to-left languages such as Arabic.

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