User - Portal Preferences

The base product contains several portal pages that allow users to customize them via portal preferences. Portal preferences allow users to control:

Which zones appear on the portal pages
The order in which the zones appear
Whether the zones should be "collapsed" (i.e., minimized) when the portal page opens.

Note: You may not be able to change your portal preferences. If a note appears immediately before the list of portal pages, a system administrator has configured your user ID to reference a Portals Profile User ID (this is defined on the Main tab). Preferences set in this way cannot be modified. System administrators do this in order to enforce a common look-and-feel throughout the user community.

The following methods can be used to open this page:

Open Admin Menu > User and navigate to the Portal Preferences tab to modify any user's preferences.
Open Main Menu > My Preferences to modify your own preferences.
Click the Preferences link (My Preferences) located in the action area.

Description of Page

The accordion contains a row for every portal configured to show on user preferences and to which you have access. To change how a portal's zones appear, expand the respective row and change the elements accordingly. The remainder of this section describes how you can configure how a portal's zones appear.

Zone lists all of the zones in the portal.

Place a check under Display if the zone should be displayed on the portal page.

Place a check under Initially Collapsed if the zone should be minimized when the portal page is initially opened. Setting zones as initially collapsed is a good idea to save space and to help pages to load more quickly. Refer to Zones May Appear Collapsed When A Page Opens for more information.

Use Sequence to control the position of the zone in respect of the other zones. This field is disabled if Display is not checked. Duplicate Sequence numbers are allowed.

For zones displaying data that is changing often, use Refresh Seconds to define in seconds how often the zone is refreshed. The minimum valid value is 15. The maximum valid value is 3600 (1 hour). A value of 0 indicates no automatic refresh.

Security Access indicates whether the user has access rights to a zone. Refer to Granting Access To Zones for more information.