Overview of Books

A book is a collection of pages. In a portal, the book is often represented as a tabbed set of pages in which only one page is visible at a time. Selecting a different tab in the set causes the corresponding page to be displayed.

Books are navigational structures in that they allow a portal visitor to move from page to page (within the book) in much the same way they might move from URL to URL in a Web browser. The pages contained within a book can themselves contain portlets and books, with the latter allowing for an infinite level of nesting. This provides a flexible hierarchical organization.

With the Portal Management tools, you can:

Create books
Add pages to a book
Add books to a desktop
Add books to books