When you select Edit... or Clone… from
a row in the Web Portals table, or when the New
Portal... button is selected from the VLPortal
tab, the web portal editor is invoked.
Before discussing web portal editing, it is important to understand the default web
portal configuration: the web portal provided for you by the VersaLexCleo HarmonyCleo VLTraderCleo LexiCom application. See About Default Portal Configuration.
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The Portal ID designates a unique identifier for this
portal. This is used as a reference "key" in the Associated web
portal menu of an HTTP user host (see Local HTTP Users Configuration).
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The Title field allows you to specify a meaningful
string, used primarily for organizing the portals. This value will not be
displayed anywhere within the user portal experience.
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The Images section allows you to customize the layout and
design of the web portal framework.
- The Logo defaults to
img/defaultlogo.jpg. This image will be
displayed in the upper left-hand corner of each web portal page. It can
be changed to any customized image, for example, your company logo.
- The Banner defaults to
img/banner.jpg. This image will be displayed
along the top of each web portal page. It can be changed to any
customized image, for example, your company banner. A banner size of
approximately 2000w by 84h pixels is recommended.
- The Menu defaults to
img/navpic.jpg. This image will be displayed
just under the main menu, along the left border of each web portal page.
It can be changed to any customized image.
- Use Import... to import new graphic images that
can subsequently be selected through the Logo,
Banner, and Menu
fields. All imported files are stored in
webserver\VLPortal\img\ under the VersaLexCleo HarmonyCleo VLTraderCleo LexiCom home directory.
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Set up the Navigation Menu table to establish the pages that should be
included in the portal and the order in which they should be organized. Each row
in the table represents a single web page. Only one row can be selected at a
time. From each row's right-click menu, you can:
- Move Up to move the page up in the menu
list.
- Move Down to move the page down in the menu
list.
- Insert Above... or Insert
Below... to insert a new page above/below the current
row. When this is selected, the following dialog will be displayed,
allowing you to select a web page from the current web page catalog.
See Maintaining the VLPortal web page catalog.
Note: The web page should be configured for all supported
Language(s), otherwise the web page will not be
displayed for those language-specific users. See
Internationalizing your web portals.
- Edit... to edit the selected page. See Editing or creating a web page.
- Remove to remove the selected web page from the
navigation menu. This does not remove the page from the web page
catalog; it simply removes the page from this portal's navigation menu.
Note that all web portals must have at least one web page in their menu;
therefore, the last page may not be removed. See Maintaining the VLPortal web page catalog.
- View the web portals that reference the selected page through the "Where
Used..." option. See Viewing a web page cross reference.
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Optional - Click Metadata to configure a metadata entry
form for files the portal user uploads via the applet. See Configuring manual file transfer metadata.
To see how the fields specified on web portal editor map to an actual web portal
layout, see the Sample web portal layout.
