Portal Manager

The Portal Manager application is used to add, configure, and manage IPF portals. It is also used to personalize and customize portal content, including pages, images, and text. This table describes the functional areas of the Portal Manager and for what and by whom they are meant to be used. The table also shows where tasks for a particular function are documented.
Function Used for Used by Documentation
Content Development Development of:
  • Content versions
  • Assets
  • Collection definitions
  • Component sets
  • Feature dependencies
  • Field display formats
  • Help assets
  • Layouts and pages
  • Managed schemas
  • Style families
 Portal administrators and developers
Portal Configuration Configuring:
  • Data sources
  • Content activation
  • Session initialization
  • Permissions and licensing
  • Email and external interfaces
  • Partitioned styling
  • Developer options

The Diagnostics Viewer is also provided in this area to help administrators diagnose issues with installed portals.

 Portal administrators and developers
Portal administrators

Portal administrator user accounts, described later in this document, are used to log in to the Portal Manager. The Portal Manager connects to the IPF IIS Web App.