There Are Three Types of Portals

There are three broad classes of portals:

• Standalone Portal. Standalone portals are separate pages. These pages are opened using any of the standard methods (e.g., by selecting a menu item, by selecting a favorite link, etc.). Your implementation will add this type of portal when necessitated by your users. For example, if you are implementing Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence, you will set up portals as per the analytic requirements of your users (e.g., you might have one portal that contains zones showing revenue analytics, and another portal contains expense analytics). It should be noted that no stand-alone portals are delivered with the base-package (your implementation must add these types of portals).
• Dashboard Portal. The dashboard portal is a portal that appears in the Dashboard Area on the users desktop. Its zones contain tools and information that exist on the user's desktop regardless of the transaction. A good example of a zone for this type of portal is one containing hyperlinks to the user's favorite transactions.

  There is only one dashboard portal. This portal and several zones are delivered as part of the base-package. Your implementation can add additional zones to this portal. Please contact customer support if you need to add zones to the dashboard portal.

• Tab Page Portals. You can add portals to base-package transactions. You would do this if you need to customize how a transaction looks depending on the type of user. Please contact customer support if you need to add portals to existing transactions.