Creating and Modifying Portal Pages
A portal page is a Symantec Management Console page that you can customize to suit your requirements. You can use a portal page to consolidate key information into a single, easy-to-view page. A portal page can display the status of the Symantec Management Platform and managed computers, or any other information that you want to make available. For example, you can include external Web pages, intranet pages, RSS feeds, or your own applications. This is more convenient than viewing a number of different console pages to gather the information that you want.
Most portal pages are available to all console users. The exception is the My Portal page, which is a special portal page that is unique to each user.
To view a portal page, you require Read permission on that portal page.
Portal pages are constructed from Web parts. You can create and customize Web parts according to your requirements and then add them to your portal pages.
The types of Web parts are as follows:
Report | Displays the information that is retrieved from a report. |
URL | A link to another Web page (such as a page in your corporate intranet, or an external Web site). |
Portal pages can be up to three columns wide. Web parts may be displayed on a portal page in three different sizes, depending on which column they are placed in or whether they span all columns. The left and middle columns are the same width (Web parts in these are “small”), and the right column is wider (Web parts here are “large”). Alternatively, a Web part can use the full page width (Web part is “multi-column”). These multi-column Web parts are shown at the top or bottom of the portal page. When you design a new Web part, you need to ensure that it displays appropriately at any size. You cannot set a particular size as a Web part property.
You can collapse a Web part by clicking the arrow at the top right, and expand it by clicking the arrow again. This lets you include slow-to-load or rarely-used Web parts on a portal page.
Portal pages have the following two modes of operation:
View | The portal page is read-only. You can view all the Web parts, but cannot make any changes. Some portal pages that are provided by Symantec solutions may be restricted to view mode to prevent anybody from modifying the content. |
Edit | If you have Write permission on the portal page, you can edit it. You can add, remove, resize, and re-order Web parts on a portal page. The Web parts tree is displayed on the left of the page, letting you drag and drop Web parts to the appropriate locations. To remove a Web part from a portal page, click the X symbol at the top-right corner of the Web part. |
- To create or modify a portal page
- In the Symantec Management Console, in theSettingsmenu, clickConsole > Portal Pages.
- Do one of the following:To create a new portal pageIn the left pane, right-click thePortal Pagesfolder, and then selectNew > Portal Page.To modify an existing portal pageIn the left pane, in thePortal Pagesfolder, select the page that you want to edit.In the upper-right corner of the portal page, clickEdit.
- On thePortal Page Configurationpage, specify the page name and description and select the Web parts that you want to use on the portal page.NameThe name of the portal page.DescriptionA description of the portal page.Web Parts panelThis panel contains the list of available Web parts that you can add to the portal page.To add a Web part:
- Select the Web part, and then clickAdd.
- In the portal page, click the Web part and drag it to the appropriate location on the page.
- If you want to remove a Web part from the page, in the appropriate Web part frame, click theDeletesymbol in the upper-right corner.
- ClickApply.