Welcome to the portal!
A portal is a centralized point for accessing applications, information, and other resources in your enterprise or on the Internet. The portal provides a desktop view of applications and information from either the Internet or from a corporate network or intranet.
Portal content is divided into Web modules called portlets. Each portlet provides a view of certain types of information, such as stock quotes or weather, or to applications, such as email or calendar. Portlets are displayed with a title bar that provides the name of the portlet and controls that allow you to minimize, maximize, edit the portlet settings, or obtain help information.
One of the main features of a portal is the ability to change the layout or content according to your needs. This task is performed by clicking the Add page and Edit page links in the portal banner. When editing an existing page or creating a new one, you can perform the following tasks.
Depending on site policies, you might not have access permissions to perform all of these tasks. For example, some enterprises might not permit you to customize portal pages.
The following terms are helpful as you use the portal site.
The following figure helps illustrate some of these terms.
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A search field in the toolbar allows you to perform a full-text search of content in the portal, including portal pages, document libraries, search collections, and any additional content sources specified by the administrator. After you click search, the results are displayed in the Search Center. Use the Search Center to open links returned by the search, refine the search, or perform a new search. For more information, see the Search Center help.