The Portal Desktop

Your portal site provides a mobile Portal Desktop and a voice Portal Desktop as well as a standard Portal Desktop. A wireless desktop dispatcher, which is a component of the Mobile Access software, controls them. The Portal Server desktop servlet forwards requests to the wireless desktop dispatcher.

The wireless desktop dispatcher uses display profile configuration data to determine which Portal Desktop—standard, mobile, or voice—is the appropriate one to route user requests to.

Regardless of how the user accesses a portal site, the Portal Desktop is the user’s interface for the portal site. When a portal site user accesses a portal site with a mobile device, the mobile Portal Desktop appears. When a portal site user accesses a portal site with a telephone, the voice Portal Desktop responds.

These channels are available and visible by default on the mobile Portal Desktop:

• User Information

• Bookmark

• Personal Notes

• Sample XML

For more details on the mobile Portal Desktop, see Chapter 4, Managing the Mobile Portal Desktop