Overview of Portal Management

The WebLogic Administration Portal supports the creation and management of portal applications, portals, and portal components. Whether you are a portal administrator with far-reaching administrative responsibility managing multiple portal applications, or you are simply working with specific portal building blocks such as portlets, campaigns, or content you have flexibility for assembling and maintaining portals and portal resources.

What Do I Create When I Create a Portal?

From an administrative standpoint, a portal is a container that defines a portal application. When you create a new portal in the administration portal, you are really creating an empty portal to hold different versions of the portal (Desktops) that can be targeted to specific users. A portal can contain one or more Desktops, or views, of a portal. It is the Desktops to which you will add the portal resources and navigation such as books, pages, and portlets that make a dynamic portal.

Each portal is associated with a Web Application that contains all of the resources required to run portals on the Web.

- WebApplication
  - Portal (Portal Application)
    - Desktop 1
      - Book 1
        - Page 1
        - Page 2
          - Portlet 1
          - Portlet 2
    - Desktop 2
      - Book 2
        - Page 3
        - Page 4
          - Portlet 1
          - Portlet 3
          - Portlet 4
      - Book 3
      - Page 5
      - Page 6
        - Portlet 2
        - Portlet 4

Portal Administrators

Two types of administrators use the Portal Management tools:

- Portal Library Administrator
- Portal Administrator

The Portal Management tools allow you to create and maintain WebLogic Portal applications and resources. For Library Administrators, the Portal Resource tree provides you with a list of all of the resources that are available for administration and allows you to modify their properties.

For portal administrators, the library might not be visible because you do not have privileges for library resources. Instead, your Portal Resource tree contains the portals and portal resources for which you have administration authority.

Related Topics:

- Overview of Users and Groups
- Overview of Delegated Administration
- Overview of Interaction Management
- Overview of Content Management