Portal page use

[bloggerman]

What are different things that are normally incorporated in a Cognos portal. I need to suggest a solution which involves portal and make things easier for the client

[AussiePete2011]

Hi there

Under most corporate environments, a portal will contain the navigation portlet starting at a predefined location / folder in Cognos.  A dashboard and some sort of notification report.
However, it all depends on what the business users want as to what you create for them.
We have different portlets for different departments.
You'd need to be a bit more specific about what exactly you are looking for.

Cheers
Peter

[bloggerman]

Could you give an example of portal from your project

[AussiePete2011]

Hi there,

We have several departments and the Portal has been structure to reflect each departments reporting needs
E.g
Public Folders
   -> Dept 1 (folder)
        -> Reports (folder)
            -> RS Report
        -> Cubes (folder)
            -> Powerplay Cube View
        -> Documentation (folder)
    - > Published Packages (folder)
           -> Dept 1 (folder)
               -> Cubes (folder)
                     -> OLAP or PowerCube
               -> Relational (folder)
                     -> FM Models
               -> Metric (folder)
                     -> Metric Models

Basically we then create a portlet page that has 2 columns
Column 1  (60 %)                                                                  Column 2 (40%)
Cognos Navigation portlet                                                    HTML Viewer porlet (Dept Alerts web page)
Metric KPI portlet                                                                  Cognos Viewer portlet (Dept KPI Dashboard for scheduled jobs)
                                                                                             Cognos Viewer portlet (Dept KPI Dashboard for target, Analysis chart)

Each person is added to a dept Group
The Group is associated to the folders, packages and reports.
Each person will then be set to a specific portlet under their profile.
Typically this is
        Dept portlet - Portlet points to the "Public Folders/Dept 1" location
        My Folders

For some Dept heads, there may be a need to have multiple portlet pages provided

The above is a rough overview of how our Cognos portal has been set up and how the portlet pages associate with departments.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Peter