This section describes using portals and zones to find and display information. This is the preferred technique used by the base product for query and maintenance dialogue.
Additionally, portals and zones may be configured by your implementation if the base package pages or portals do not satisfy your business needs. Your implementation may opt to do this to provide a more intuitive and business-oriented view of your data. For example, rather than use the base-package's person search and maintenance pages to display and maintain customers, your implementation can configure one or more portals whose zones serve the same purpose.
Figure 1. SampleSearch Portal and Zones
