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Virtual portals

View information on how you can scope your HCL Digital Experience (DX) to have multiple virtual portals.

Virtual portals can be of benefit if you want to serve multiple user groups by separate virtual portals for different purposes, but still want to keep your environment simple and limited to a single HCL DX installation. Virtual portals allow a large extent of scoping and separating portal resources, user groups, and administration.

Video: HCL Digital Experience - How to create a Virtual Portal

  • Deciding about virtual portals
    Get an overview of possible business and usage scenarios for virtual portals. Decide whether your business scenario is suitable for virtual portals. Get some ideas and hints about what you need to consider when you plan for your virtual portals. This can help you determine whether your business can work with virtual portals, how many virtual portals it requires, and how, and for which purposes you will use them. Based on your decision, you can then plan how you implement and configure your virtual portals.
  • Planning for virtual portals
    Before you create your virtual portals, review this information for planning purposes. Determine how many virtual portals your business requires, and how and for which purposes you will use them. Based on your decision, plan how you implement and configure your virtual portals.
  • Virtual portals and managed pages
    Virtual portals are created and managed through the portal administration interface with the Virtual Portal Manager portlet. When you create a virtual portal, a workspace is created that contains a new Portal Site web content library. Any managed pages that are created in the virtual portal are stored in the Portal Site library.
  • Administering virtual portals
    View information to help you scope your HCL DX to have multiple virtual portals.
  • Working with the Virtual Portal Manager portlet
    For improved manageability of virtual portals, HCL Digital Experience provides an administration portlet. It is named Virtual Portal Manager. It allows you to create virtual portals on demand. You can also use it to preconfigure and administer virtual portals.
  • Managing Virtual Portals
    The Manage Virtual Portals portlet enables you to deploy additional portals on an existing infrastructure. With virtual portals, you can use a single portal installation to deploy multiple portals with different URLs, anonymous pages, user groups, and themes and skins.
  • Virtual portals reference
    The virtual portals reference provides information about using commands for configuring virtual portals, usage hints and tips, and known limitations.
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