Portals and landing pages
Portals
A portal is a web channel in use by your application. End users experience the portal through a browser, regardless of device type (such as a desktop or mobile device). Portal authoring is a simple and intuitive way to create an application web channel. You can configure a portal with predefined portal templates to set the screen layout and required features. The templates support responsive application development and include a mobile-only layout option.
By default, Pega Platform™ has one portal for application users – the User Portal. The User Portal provides a standard user interface for working on cases. It is intended to be used by end users on desktop and mobile devices. For example, the User Portal allows users to create and process cases that are assigned to them.
Landing pages
A portal consists of landing pages that consolidate information for easy access. To build an application that matches the needs of your users, you create landing pages with fields, controls, and resources presented as images and text. Landing pages allow you to present additional resources to users. You can create, configure, and add landing pages to menus within your application to display specific information.
Landing pages added to a portal menu are also added to the portal. By managing the list of landing pages, you can customize the main menu and improve navigation and user experience.
Pega Platform provides out-of-the-box landing pages, called Custom pages. For example, Teams is a custom page that displays the teams the user belongs to. As shown in the following image, you can add the Teams landing page to the User Portal main menu.
Landing pages menu
You can place a finished landing page within one or several application menus by using the Landing pages menu in App Studio. You can also add, disable, or manage access to landing pages as well.
- Add landing pages to an existing portal to effectively organize the content of your channel in a main menu.
- Disable an existing landing page that is no longer needed to prevent users from adding the landing page to any menu.
- Manage access to landing pages by specifying visibility by role. For example, a landing page with employee reviews is visible to only a manager.
Tip: In App Studio, click Design to toggle Design mode, and then click Pages to access the Landing pages menu. The Landing pages menu lists both the pages you created and the Custom pages provided by Pega Platform. Disabled landing pages are not listed.
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