Administrator Customizations

The Portal Server software administrators can customize the Desktop by:

• Using supplied providers to define additional content channels.

• Creating and customizing the display profile, which involves creating or modifying provider, channel, and container channel objects. When you modify the display profile, you use the appropriate XML tag definitions for providers, channels, and container channels.

• Create new preset themes in the display profile.

• Using supplied JavaServer Pages and template files to modify the user interface.

• Customizing the search provider.

• Customizing the Desktop end user online help.

By performing these customizations, you can arrive at:

• A site-specific look and feel of the Desktop: whether it uses tabs or frames, what channels are available to users and how they are situated out on the Desktop, what applications are available to end users, what kind of online help is available, and so on.

• Different Desktops for different LDAP roles or organizations.

• Desktop behavior based on user roles.

This guide describes these administrator customizations.