My Pages
My Pages are your personalized view of the portal. Each My Page displays
portlets that you choose. Portlets, which are tools embedded in your portal,
increase the flexibility of your portal by allowing you to integrate applications,
tools, and services into your portal. For example, you could have a portlet
that provides a search tool for all the employees in a company or a portlet
that allows you to order lunch online.
To learn about the functions available at the top of the portal, see
My Home, My Account, Logging Off, Help,
and Searching.
My Pages Menu
To customize your default My Page or access other pages within My Pages,
click My Pages to display the
menu. The My Pages default menu contains the following options:
Create New Page
lets you create a new My Page,
add portlets to the page, and customize
the My Page layout.
Edit Page
lets you modify the My Page you are viewing, add and delete portlets,
and change the My Page name. To learn more about customizing an existing
My Page, see Edit Page (My Page).
Add Portlets
lets you add
portlets to the My Page you are viewing.
Edit Portlet
Preferences lets you configure
some of your portlets.
Note: If your portlet has a title bar, you can also click 
in the title bar to access the Edit Portlet Preferences page.
Delete This Page
deletes the My Page you are viewing.
Home Page (or
main page with a customized name) brings you to your main My Page. This
is the page displayed when you log in to the portal.
Note: These options are available
when you view the menu from a My Page. If you view the menu from any other
page in the portal, you will only see the Create New Page option and a
list of your My Pages.
Portlets Installed with the Portal
The following portlets are automatically installed with the portal software:
Portal Login
lets you log in to your personalized portal account. This is typically
added by the portal administrator to the Guest's default My Page.
Portal Search
lets you search the portal and display saved search parameters and criteria.
If you run the same search frequently, you can save the search for later
use. To learn more about saving search results, see Search
Results.
Minimizing, Maximizing, and Refreshing Portlets
To minimize a portlet so that only the title bar
appears on your My Page, click 
on the title bar.
To maximize a portlet so that the entire portlet
displays, click 
on the title bar.
To refresh a portlet, click 
on
the title bar. Not all portlets have a refresh button.
Managing Your Account
In the banner above the menu bar, click My
Account. You can edit
your user profile, display
options, locale settings,
search settings, view your user profile, and, depending
on your type of user account, change
your password.