Step 2: Create a Basic Portal

When you create a portal, you make a set of resources available to the users of a site.

To create a basic portal:

  1. Select Portals in the main navigation pane.

  2. From the Portal Web Application drop-down menu, select sampleportal.

  3. From the Portal Resource tree, select Portals. The Portal Resource Editor pane appears to the right.
  4. Click Create New Portal. The New Portal Properties pane appears.
  5. Enter the following properties for the new portal:
For This Field: Enter This Information:
Enter a Name for this Portal MyPortal
Enter a Description for this Portal This is my tutorial portal
Enter a partial URL for this Portal MyPortal
Enter an (optional) Portal URI desktops.jsp
  1. Click Save. The new portal appears in the list of Available Portals in the Editor pane.