Center page overview

The Business Portal is divided into several functional work areas or centers. Each center is specific to a particular role or set of roles, and provides an area for users assigned to the role to accomplish their work. Each tab on the first-level menu corresponds to a particular center. For example, the BPSDK tab on the first-level menu corresponds to the BPSDK Center, which contains portal pages and web parts for the sample application.

When a user selects a tab from the first-level menu, a center page is displayed. This is the main page for a center. It gives the user a starting point and provides information about tasks and pages available within the center. The following illustration shows the BPSDK Center page.

Center pages provide role-based information for the users of a center. More than one role can be assigned to a center page. For example, the Salesperson role and the Sales Manager role can both be assigned to the Sales Center page since the work performed and the information needed by users in these roles may overlap.

The tasks and pages available to users inside a particular center may vary, however, based on a user’s role. For example, the Salesperson and Sales Manager roles can both be assigned to the Sales Center page; however, a user in the Sales Manager role may have access to additional tasks and pages which a user in the Salesperson role does not. A center page will display information only about pages and tasks that a user has permission to view.