The portal includes some basic functionality in the portal
banner and menus to access the different areas of the portal. The
areas you see depend on the portal configuration, whether you are
logged in, and your portal access.
To determine whether you are logged in correctly, look
at the portal greeting (at the top of the portal banner).
By default your greeting is Welcome, user name where user name is the name of the user
by which you are logged in. To change your greeting, click My Account,
then, on the My Account page, click Display Options.
To access the Administrative Objects Directory, where you
can create and manage portal objects and access portal utilities,
click Administration.
Note: You see Administration only if you have the Access Administration
activity right. For information on Administrative Objects Directory
features, see the Administrator Guide for AquaLogic Interaction.
To edit your user profile, personalize your display options,
set your locale settings, set your search preferences, change your
portal password, and manage user names and passwords for external
accounts, as well as view your user profile, click My Account.
To display help for the page you are viewing, click Help.
To log in to the portal or log off the portal, click Log In or Log Off.
To search for documents or objects in your portal, type
your search string in the box in the portal banner and click Search.
To go directly to
the result that your portal administrator has set as
the top best bet for a term, without first seeing all the search results,
type the top best bet operator (>) followed by your search string
and click Search, or type your search string
and click .
Note: If no top best bet has been set for the term, the regular
search results appear.
Note: The top best bet button () is available only if enabled
by your portal developer.
To search for
documents or objects using metadata properties and location, click Advanced Search.
To search other
content, portals, and web search engines, click Federated Search.
Note: The Federated Search button is available only if enabled
by your portal developer.
To view your user profile, in the My Profile menu, click View User Profile.
To view one of your personalized pages, in the My Pages menu, click the page you want to view.My Pages are your personalized view of the portal. You choose the
applications, tools, and services (in the form of portlets) that you
want to display on each My Page. For example, you might create a My
Page that includes a search tool for all the employees in your company
and a portlet that displays the most recent news about your company.
To view and manage the communities to which you belong,
select an option from the My Communities menu:
To view a community, click the community name.
To join a community, click Join Communities, select the communities you want to join, and click Finish.
To unsubscribe from a community, click Unsubscribe
Communities, select the communities from which you want
to unsubscribe, and click Finish.
Communities are sites
within a portal designed for a specific audience or task, such as
collaborative projects.You might have communities
based on departments in your company. For example, the Marketing department
might have a community containing press information, leads volumes,
a trade show calendar, and so on. The Engineering department might
have a separate community containing project milestones, regulatory
compliance requirements, and technical specifications.
To browse documents in the portal, click Directory.The
Knowledge Directory is similar to a file system tree in that documents
are organized in folders and subfolders. A folder can contain documents
uploaded by users or imported by content crawlers, as well as links
to people, portlets, and communities. If your administrator has given
you permission, you might also be allowed to add documents to the
Knowledge Directory, or submit yourself as an expert on a particular
topic.