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Create Perspective

Use this page to create a new perspective for classifying the content of the page group.

Field Descriptions

Perspective

Field Description

Parent Perspective Displays the name of the perspective under which you are creating the new perspective, or <None> if the perspective is at the top level in the page group.

Name

Field	Description
Parent Perspective	Displays the name of the perspective under which you are creating the new perspective, or <None> if the perspective is at the top level in the page group.
Name	Enter a name for the perspective. The name can be used in a URL to directly access the perspective. Direct access URLs take the following format: `http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/pls/<dad>/url/page/<pagegroupname>/<perspectivename>` For example: `http://mymachine.mycompany.com:5000/pls/portal/url/page/myportal/myperspectivehttp://mymachine.mycompany.com:5000/pls/portal/url/page/myportal/myperspective/mysubperspective` Note: The name must be unique within the page group and the Shared Objects page group. The name is limited to 60 characters and can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z a-z 0-9) and the underscore character; spaces and other special characters are not allowed.
Display Name	Enter a descriptive display name for the perspective. Note: The display name can contain up to 240 characters.

Enter a name for the perspective. The name can be used in a URL to directly access the perspective. Direct access URLs take the following format:

http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/pls/<dad>/url/page/<pagegroupname>/<perspectivename>

For example:

http://mymachine.mycompany.com:5000/pls/portal/url/page/myportal/myperspectivehttp://mymachine.mycompany.com:5000/pls/portal/url/page/myportal/myperspective/mysubperspective

Note: The name must be unique within the page group and the Shared Objects page group. The name is limited to 60 characters and can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z a-z 0-9) and the underscore character; spaces and other special characters are not allowed.

Display Name

Enter a descriptive display name for the perspective.

Note: The display name can contain up to 240 characters.

Notes

When you click Create, a link is displayed at the top of the page from which you can edit the perspective. You can also create additional perspectives, or click Close to return to the Navigator.
When users create pages and items, they can associate them with as many perspectives as they like. Other users can then choose to view all of the pages and items associated with a particular perspective.
When you create a perspective, a page is also created. This page includes an autoquery custom search portlet that lists all the items and pages that belong to the perspective. Regions can be set up to display perspectives. When users click a perspective, that perspective's page is displayed, listing all the items and pages that belong to the perspective.
The first time you create a perspective in a page group, a page template is also created and all perspective pages in the page group are based on this page template. This means that if you want to change the way perspective pages look, you just need to edit the perspective page template (rather than each individual perspective page). Although you can base any page on this template, we recommend that you use it only for pages used to list perspective contents.

Additional Information

On Portal Center:

For more information go to the documentation section of Portal Center.

Locating this Page

Click the Navigator link, then click the Page Groups tab.
At the top level, click the link for the page group in which you want to create the perspective.
Click the Perspectives link.
Next to Create New, click the Perspective link.

Tips:

A Navigator link can appear on any page. By default, you can find this link on the Portal Builder page.
Click Page Groups in the Path links to get to the top level of the Page Groups Navigator.