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Use portal rules to create a custom portal layout for a group of users. You can determine:
- The portal role — User (portals whose users do not update rules) or Developer (portals whose users do update rules).
- The portal type — Custom, Mobile, composite, fixed (traditional), or classic.
- For composite portals, the harnesses that define each space.
- CSS styles for the portal window, reports, and user forms.
- For traditional portals, the gadgets, workspaces and workspace labels.
- Mobile portals are defined for users of mobile devices. This Type is only available for Role
User.
Contrasting composite, fixed (traditional), and Mobile user portals
- Composite portals are defined by harnesses and sections. Composite portals can operate with Internet Explorer 6 and later , Firefox 3.5 and later, Safari 4 and later, and Chrome 5 and later browsers. As a best practice, use composite portals for new development. The parts of a composite portal are defined on the Spaces tab.
Two samples of composite portals are provided: User and Manager.
See How to create a composite portal.
- Fixed or traditional portals, such as the standard WorkUser and WorkManager portals, operate only with Internet Explorer. Traditional user portals are built from gadgets—special HTML rules—rather than harnesses and sections. Gadgets are referenced on the Options, Tabs, and Custom tabs. Through activities and HTML rules, you can create additional gadgets for traditional portals and determine their appearance and behavior. See How to customize traditional user portal layout and behavior.
- Mobile portals are defined for users of mobile devices. This is only available for Role
User. See the PDN article How to create a mobile portal.
Access
Use the Records Explorer to list all portal rules available to you.
Where referenced
Portal rules are referenced in the Settings tab of the access group form. Users associated with that access group see the corresponding portal layout.
Select Designer Studio > User Interface > User Screens > Portals and Skins to view the portal rules referenced by the operators who can access the current application.
Category
Portal rules are part of the User Interface category. A portal rule is an instance of the Rule-Portal rule type.
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