My Portal Settings

My Portal is a portal that users can create by placing required or frequently used portlets in a convenient place for their own use. My Portals can not be shared with other users.
To easily create My Portal, the application administrator can set up a My Portal template.

Creating My Portal Template

Change the template that users can use to create their own My Portals. You can create only one template.
This template are the default My Portal for users.

Steps:
  1. Click the administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Personal portal template.

  6. On the "Personal portal template" screen, create a template for a personal portal.

    In the Personal portal template, add portlets for users to use.
    You can add portlets and change their names as you usually do with portlets. For details, refer to the following pages:
    Deploying Portlets
    Changing Portlet Display Names

Initializing My Portal Template

Initialize the My Portal template.

Steps:
  1. Click the administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Personal portal template.

  6. On the "Personal portal template" screen, click Initialize. Screen capture: Initialize action link is highlighted

  7. Click Yes on the "Initialize personal portal template" screen.

Setting Up Permissions for My Portals

For the My Portal, set the following permissions for departments, users, or roles.

  • Permission

The permissions for My Portal vary by the security model applied to the portal.
The default setting is set to "REVOKE (All users have access except users on list)". Therefore, all users are allowed to use their own My Portals.
For information on permissions, refer to User Rights and Prioritized Access Permissions.

The following steps explain how to set permissions if the security model is set as "GRANT (Only users on list have access)".

Steps:
  1. Click the administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Personal portal permissions.

  6. Check that the security model is "GRANT (Only users on list have access)".

    If the security model is set as "REVOKE (All users have access except users on list)", click Change to change the setting to "GRANT (Only users on list have access)". For details, refer to Changing the Security Model.
    Images of GRANT (Only users on list have access) selected

  7. On the screen for permissions for My Portal, click Add. Screenshot: Link to add is highlighted in the Personal portal permissions screen

  8. On the "Add Permissions" screen, select the department, user, or role to set permissions, and then click Add. "Add Permissions" screen

    To select a role, switch the view to the Roles tab.
    After you click Add then click the tab, the selected departments, users, or roles before you switch tabs are cleared.

  9. Click "Add". Image in which the add action link is highlighted

Deleting Permissions for My Portals

Delete permissions granted users or departments to access My Portal.
If you delete permissions, actions that users can perform changes as follows depending on the security model:

  • If the security model is "GRANT (Only users on list have access)":
    Users who were deleted the permissions or users who belonged to the departments or roles that lost permissions no longer be able to work with items they previously could.
  • If the security model is "REVOKE (All users have access except users on list)":
    Users who were deleted the permissions or users who belonged to the departments or roles that lost permissions can now work with items they prohibited to use.

Selecting Permissions to Delete for My Portal

You can select permissions and delete them.

Steps:
  1. Click the administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Personal portal permissions.

  6. On the screen to set permissions for My Portals, select the checkboxes of the departments, users, or roles to delete permissions, and then click Delete. Screenshot: Checkboxes of users to be deleted are selected on the "Personal portal permissions" screen. The Delete button is highlighted

  7. Click Yes on the "Delete all Permissions" screen.

Deleting All Permissions for My Portal

You can delete all permissions.

Steps:
  1. Click the administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Personal portal permissions.

  6. On the screen to set permissions for My Portals, click "Delete all". Screenshot: Link to delete all is highlighted in the Personal portal permissions screen

  7. Click Yes on the "Delete all permissions" screen.