Sidebar Portal

The sidebar is a special portal displayed in the Sidebar Area. Its zones contain tools and data that are useful regardless of the object being displayed.

Functional Grouping. Depending on your configuration, content may be organized in functional areas with key information presented in the main focus area along with ancillary areas for favorites and tools. Each functional area is a sidebar portal enabled by the "Sidebar Configuration" extendable lookup. Functional grouping is disabled when the legacy sidebar portal "CI_​DASHBOARD" is marked active and other functional sidebar portals are marked inactive in the sidebar configuration definition.

When your implementation is configured to be organized by functional area, you see icons at the bottom of the sidebar area. In this image, the 'target' icon is selected, indicating that you see the sidebar zones in the 'main' functional area. Click the 'star' icon to show the zones in the 'favorites' functional area. Click the 'wrench' icon to show zones in the 'tools' functional area.

Three icons - a target, which is selected, a star and a wrench

The subsequent topics describe the zones that are provided by the framework product for this portal. Please note the following additional information about the sidebar portal that may impact how it appears.

  • Additional zones may be available in other products. The zones described below are available in every base product. Please refer to the product-specific documentation for additional sidebar zones available in your product.

  • Context Sensitive Zones may appear. Some pages may define additional zones that should appear in the sidebar only if that page is displayed. These are referred to as Context Sensitive Zones.

  • Sidebar zones are configurable. The sidebar portal is configured to allow a user to define preferences for it. Refer to Portal Preferences for more information.

Note: Security. As a general rule, sidebar zones each refer to a unique application service so that a security administrator may configure which users are allowed to have access to which zones. Note that the user portal preferences indicates which zones a user has security access to.