Portal sections

Portal sections are the building blocks of portals. Portal sections are areas within a portal. The standard portal sections include system components that provide data and navigation help, action items, and notifications.

The main categories for portal sections include portal section types that you define and system portal section types that the IBM® TRIRIGA® Application Platform defines.

The portal sections that you can define include the following types:

Report
Contains the results of any IBM TRIRIGA report, such as example, graphic, chart, report, and hierarchical.
External
Contains the result of a metric query for the Workplace Performance Manager user role.
Scorecard
Displays a Quick Links type of navigation collection.
Form - Record add
Displays a form for creating a record.
Form - Record view
Displays a record in the record's form.

The system portal sections include the following types:

sysActionItems
Displays a list of the action items that require an action by the user who is logged in.
sysLastVisited
Displays the last locations that the user opened.
sysNotifications
Displays a list of the notifications that were sent to the user and not deleted.
sysSelfService
Provides access to the Request Central menu.