Explore Portal Designer

Time required

To view all of the demonstrations in this tutorial, you will need approximately 45 minutes. If you need to review a specific topic within a module, you can go directly to that topic without viewing its preceeding content. If you decide to explore other facets of the Explore Portal Designer tutorial during any of the exercises, it could take longer to finish.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this tutorial end to end, you should be familiar with:

It will also help if you understand how to use the perspectives and views of Rational Developer.

Learning objectives

This tutorial is divided into three modules based on a Rational tools v5.0.2.2 portal project. Each module has its own learning objectives. You can choose to browse through one or all of the modules. Each module contains several demonstrations that you can review in succession or separately.

Module 1: Opening portal projects offers a brief demonstration on how to open a portal as a project in the Portal Designer workbench. In this module, you will:

Module 2: Portal page layouts shows you how to manipulate elements such as rows, columns, URLs and portlets to create page layouts for your portal site. In this module, you will view demonstrations on the following topics:

Module 3: Portal "Look and Feel" offers demonstrations on how to:

When you are ready, begin Module 1: Opening a portal project

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