Customizing the Information Portal Interface

The Information Portal interface is the look and feel of what your users see as they search. Here is an example of the first default searching page that a user sees.

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The Information Portal interface is not just the look and feel. It also contains functionality that you can change. You can change functionality through tabs, sub-tabs, variables, and various other interface administration features. These functionality changes are in addition to core functionality changes explained in the “Setup” chapter and previous sections in this chapter. If you want to change the look and feel or functionality of the Information Portal searching pages, you should become familiar with these parts of the Information Portal interface:

Tabset. Information Portal searching has a set of tabs (or tabset) that is constantly at the top of each Information Portal searching page that users access. This tabset is made up of tabs and sub-tabs. Each tab and sub-tab displays an Information Portal page or accesses a web page that is outside of Information Portal. You can add a new tab with its own sub-tabs to the tabset, change the color of each tab in the tabset, change the name of the tabs and sub-tabs, and do a variety of other tasks.
Variables. Variables are values in Information Portal’s searching pages that appear to be coded into the software (or static), such as text, fonts, and so forth. For example, you can use variables to change the “Search:” text box label on the example screen (Figure 4-1). (For a complete list of the variables that you can change, see the Information Portal User Interface Customization Guide.)

If you want to use custom images to change the appearance of the Information Portal user interface, you must store these images in a specific location.

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