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Plan the Portlet Page

Consider the following information to plan your portlet page before creating it:

• Decide whether the new page contains tabs. You can select a page type with or without tabs. Pages with tabs can provide a useful way to group several related pages under a menu item.
• Determine how a page is used to decide on which menu the link to the page is placed. An end-user page is placed in the Home menu, and an administrator page is placed in the Administration menu.
• Decide how much control users have for the page. You can control whether a page can be personalized so that users can add portlets and can create additional tabs. Once a user personalizes a page, changes made in Studio (except the addition of required portlets) do not affect those changes. To ensure that all users see the same page and any future changes, disable the Personalizable option.
• Verify that the portlets exist that you want to display on the portlet page as content. Also verify that the page filters exist that you want to display on the portlet page to allow users to filter the information on the page. This scenario does not explain how to create portlets and page filters.
• Verify that any user object actions exist that you add to the portlet page. For example, the project properties page includes the following user object actions by default:
  • Add to My Projects
  • Copy Project from Template

  Without these object actions, users have to navigate to the page that has the Add to My Projects or the Copy Project from Template option to perform these actions. Adding object actions to a page allows users to place the actions where it is most appropriate. They do not need to navigate away from the page they are working on.

  This scenario does not explain how to create object actions.

• Assign the following access rights to users so they can access the portlet page and portlets:
  • Portlet - View
  • Portlet - Navigate
  • Page - View

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