Saturday, June 4

Portal Look and Feel - Branding the Portal

After portal installation, user want to change the look and feel and the appearance of portal for his organization, for customers, partners etc. This process is called Branding. During Branding, we create various portal desktop.
One particular type of appearance of portal is called a portal desktop. Portal desktop is a combination of
portalframework pages and portal theme. How things are arranaged on the portal screen is determined by portal framework pages and the feel of portal screen is determined by the portal theme. Once portal desktops are created, they have to be assigned to user or group of users. This can be done by using portal display rules. So in other words, you use portal display rules to assign portal desktops to various users or group of uers. These portal display rules are accumulated in a Master Rule Collection (main_rule).

Portal feamework page determines the navigational structure, layout and content of the portal desktop. Portal
Theme determines the colour, size, font and other visual aspects of various UI elements. So the following steps can be performed to create portal desktops
  • create navigation iviews
  • build navigation pages using iviews created above
  • create page layout
  • create framework page using page layout and navigation page
  • create theme
  • create portal desktop using theme and framework page
  • create rule in master rule collection (main_ruke)
  • assign portal desktop to the newly created rule.
After doing this, log off from the portal and login again, changes the new portal desktop your created
will be visible to you. Errors can occur like 'Error occurred while trying to access desktop'. This may
be because you have not assiged logged in user ID to the display rule created for newly created portla desktop or the portal desktop is deleted etc.Troubleshotting for such type of errors can be done in System Administration  Portal Display. Go to Portal Content Portal Users Standard Portal Users  Default Portal Desktop.
Below are few SAP notes which are useful if you face problems in accessing newly created portal desktops

  • Changes to Default Framework Page have no effect--------687485
  • NW’04 upgrade to >=SP11 Theme Editor missing themes-----861452
  • Error occurred while trying to access desktop-----------869690
  • Error occurred while trying to access framework page----856865
  • Full-Control permissions required to edit Rule Collection--823210
  • Cannot log in: “No portal desktop defined for this user”---715307
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    Posted by Mohammed Bohra at 10:17 PM
    Labels: Portal Look and Feel developing portal application portal desktops framework pages Branding the Portal  display rules master rule collection  portal theme

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