Resource types
You can use the portal to create pages, roles, and views. All of these resources that you create using the portal are assigned a resource type of Custom. With other resource types, a more limited set of actions are available.
The type of resource is determine by how it was created.
- Core
- This resource type is central to the operation of the portal. Core resources cannot be created or deleted in the portal, and you cannot edit its properties. However, you can make other changes that do not alter the nature of the resource, for example, including a core page in a custom view.
- System
- This resource type is created by products and applications that deploy the resource to the portal. For example, when an application is installed to the portal environment, it can define certain pages, roles, and views needed to administer the application through the portal. All of these have a resource type of System. Like core resources, system resources cannot be created or deleted. However, for views, pages, and folders, you can create copies of system resources, which are explained under System Customized. And like core resources, you can perform actions on a system resource, like changing access to the resource, without modifying its properties.
- System Customized
- This is a copy of a system resource with properties, such as the
name of the resource, that have been changed in the portal. The original
system resource is always maintained, but the system customized version
of the resource is used until the original is restored. When the system
resource is restored, the system customized copy is deleted.
You can create system customized pages, folders, and views, but not roles, wires, or external URLs.
- Custom
- These are resources that you create using the portal. Custom resources can be created, edited, and deleted by any user whose role has access to the Pages, Views, Portlets, and Roles portlets under the Settings folder in the navigation.