Overview of the Enterprise Sample Portal Desktop

The Enterprise Sample is a Business to Employee (B2E) portal based on a fictional company, Adventure Sports Cafe, that demonstrates identity based content delivery for employees of the company.

The sample portal showcases:

• Multiple page layouts, including tabs and sub-tabs, to distinguish and separate content.

• The heavy theme that is shipped with the product.

• The JSR 168/286 portlets and the Provider API based channels that are shipped with the Portal Server software.

Figure 2–1 Enterprise Sample Anonymous Page

By default, the Portal Server Enterprise sample is AJAX enabled. This provides for asynchronous loading of individual channels and portlets. Therefore, a slow channel or portlet will not affect the loading time of the other channels and portlets on a page, improving overall performance.

The AJAX enabled Enterprise Sample also includes rich user interface functionality such as:

• Drag and drop positioning of channels and portlets on the page.

• Asynchronous interaction for channel container controls such as minimize, remove, and maximize.

• Independent refresh for individual channels and portlets without refreshing the complete page.

• Edit channels and portlets inline without refreshing the complete page.

• Easy addition and removal of channels.

• Multiple layouts for a page.