Create a Portal Site

When you access the Portal service, the Site Directory is in focus. From here you will create your new Portal site.

1. In the Site Directory, click Create New Site.

   

2. Enter JobCore Portal as the site name and click Create.

   

   The Site Editor opens with the Site Settings screen in focus.

3. Click the Pages tab.

   

In your new site, you will already see the default Launchpad page in the Pages panel on the left. Note that the page is marked with an eye icon with a cross. This icon indicates that the page is not part of the site menu and is not yet visible in your site. In the next step, you’ll add another page.

Once you’ve created your site, you can go back to the Site Directory to see that your new site is now represented by a tile. In the future, each time you want to edit your site, you can click the pencil icon from this tile. You can also delete the site from here or preview it to see how your site users will see your site at runtime.

1. Click + at the bottom of the Pages panel of the Site Manager.

   

2. Select the Anchor Navigation page template.

3. Enter JobCore as the Page Name.

4. Click Add.

   

Now we have a page called JobCore and we have the default Launchpad page that you can see in the Pages panel. Let’s add them both to the site menu.

1. Click the Menu tab to open the Site Menu editor.

   

2. Click Click here to add an item to open the Add Menu Item screen.

   

3. Enter the following values:

   Field Name	Value
   Display Name	Home
   Item Type	Page
   Select Page	JobCore

   Click Add.

   This takes you back to the Menu Editor. You’ll see that the page you called Home has been added to the site’s menu structure.

   

4. Now add the Launchpad page to the site menu.

   Hover over the Home menu item and click the + icon on the right.

   

5. Click Add Item to open the Add Menu Item screen.

   

6. Enter the following values:

   Field Name	Value
   Display Name	My Apps
   Item Type	Page
   Select Page	Launchpad

   Click Add.

   

7. Click Save in the editor.

   

Note that both the Launchpad and Home pages appear in the site menu structure.

1. Click the Pages tab to go back to the page editor.

   

2. Click the downward facing arrow next to the JobCore page, and then click Set as home page.

   

Now you have a Portal site called the JobCore Portal with 2 pages. Both pages are part of the site menu and the JobCore page (your Home page) is set as the first page that opens when a user logs on to your site.

In the next tutorial you’re going to add web content to the Home page.