Abstract

Web-based technical support content or documents pertaining to the IBM® WebSphere® Portal and Portal Express products use the terms explained below to help group like documents together for easy reference. These terms are explained in more detail, below.

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The following terms or phrases are used in the Web-based technical support documentation and content for WebSphere Portal to aid readers in understanding which aspects of the portal the content applies to or refers to. A brief explanation or example follows each entry. The book icon () indicates an Information Center article is available and can be clicked for a direct link to the topic. Links to topics within the Enable/Extend/Server editions Information Center can also be found in the WebSphere Portal Express or Enable for z/OS™ Information Centers as well in most cases.

Administration Portlets - Set of portlets installed by default that allow designated portal administrators to oversee various operations of the portal through a graphical interface.
Administrative Scripting - The scripting interface that enhances the possibilities for automated solution deployment and administration of the portal.
Application Development - Information regarding portlet and portlet application development.
Business Portlets - Portlets shipped with the product, installed by default (except in the case of installing an "empty portal").
Business Process Integration - Integrating Business Processes/BPEL/SOA with the portal, including the use of WebSphere Process Server, the installed portlets such as My Tasks and integrating custom applications with the Business Process Container or Choreographer.
Collaboration - Collaborative components include Domino and Extended Products, the Domino Integration portlets, and the Lotus® Collaborative Services API. To use these collaborative features in the portal, you must install and configure one or more of the supported versions of the following products: IBM® Lotus Domino®, IBM Lotus Sametime®, and IBM Lotus QuickPlace®.
Common PIM Portlets (CPP) - The Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets: Common Mail and Common Calendar, which allow administrators to configure them for different back-end systems and protocols, found on the Welcome > Messaging page.
Common Services - A framework of services to accommodate different scenarios that the portal can address, some of which are configurable to meet your needs.
Composite Applications - A collection of components ("Templates") that address a business need for a particular group of users.
Configuration - Information related to the configuration of the portal, whether to a new database, for security, a Web server, or for a specific configuration tool or utility.
Container: Portlet Environment and Deployment - Often related to managing pages and layout, the container is the mechanism that allows a portlet to be deployed into and rendered by the portal.
Content Publishing Function - General information related to using the portal as a common focal point for distributing or controlling published content - may include the Document Manager or other such mechanisms.
Database - The portal stores configuration, access control (such as user identities, credentials, and permissions for accessing portal resources), and user data in a database. Technical support content related to the database, whether its configuration, the transfer from one database to another, or its operation.
Document Conversion Services (DCS) - Documents produced by many standard applications (such as word processors or spreadsheet editors) can be viewed as HTML pages using Document Conversion Services, integrated with the Document Manager portlet.

General - Information not necessarily specific to any component or that applies to multiple components.
Installation - Whether installing the product the first time, or upgrading by applying maintenance, these are covered by the Installation topic.

Installation & Configuration - On occasion, a document encompasses more than just installation or configuration, and can be related to either or both.
License Management - IBM Tivoli® License Compliance Manager monitors license compliance. Basically, it recognizes and monitors what product offerings and their versions, releases, and fix packs are installed and used on the system.
Lotus Component Designer runtime - Integrated tooling, Lotus Component Designer 6.0 (formerly Workplace Designer), bundled with the release of WebSphere Portal Express 6.0 and available in WebSphere Portal 6.0.0.1.
Lotus Domino and Extended Products Portlets (DEPP) - Information related to the installation, configuration and usage of the People Finder, Domino Web Access (DWA), Sametime Contact List, Lotus Document Viewer and other such portlets installed or available with the portal.
Maintenance - Content related to the application, availability or planning of corrective service updates (interim fixes, fix packs and other such collections of fixes) to prevent rediscovering problems already fixed.
Migration - Information related to a more substantial 'upgrade' process in which there is a substantial version change (such as from version 5 to version 6).

Operation - Information related to the runtime operation and functions associated with operating a portal in your environment.
Parallel Portlet Rendering (PPR) - Parallel portlet rendering provides a benefit if a high proportion of the portlets in your portal access remote locations to fetch the content that they render. Portlets must be designed and configured to be able to take advantage of this function.
Performance & Tuning - Information related to tuning IBM® WebSphere® Portal to improve performance such as caching content to limit redundant retrieval, tuning your database, nesting groups, reducing calls to your LDAP server, and more.
Personalization (PZN) - The personalization technology selects content based on the rules between user metadata and content metadata to allow the portal to dynamically render content based on who is logged in to the portal.
Policies - Policies are grouped according to the types of resources that apply the policies and follow a hierarchical model that supports inheritance (users & groups, composite applications, client types and page themes).
Portal Document Manager (PDM) - Document Manager is where portal users work with documents, folders and views, and can extend to other topics as well.
Portal Search Engine (PSE) - Information regarding the Portal Search component, including indexing content sources and searching for information within the portal.
Problem Determination - Documents and content uniquely relevant to troubleshooting or identifying the root cause of problems, including groups of documents commonly referred to as "MustGather" sets of instructions for collecting relevant files to help isolate a problem area or component.
Productivity Components - Productivity Components (ODC), Inline editors and Document filters; may include the Rich Text Editor (RTE) but covers more than just that such as the spellchecker function.
Property Broker/Click-to-Action (C2A)/Wires - Generally referred to as "cooperative portlets," content of this topic refers to the capability of portlets on a page to interact with each other by sharing information.
Rich Text Editor (RTE) - A lightweight editor shipped with the portal that provides many widely used functions typically available in a productivity application of its type, such as editing and saving documents.
Security - Documentation regarding this topic includes information related to planning, configuring, and enabling security for your site, including security scenarios and choosing your user registry.
Site Analysis Logging - This topic includes information regarding the portal's built-in logging capability to help track and understand your portal's usage data.
State handling - The portal content rendered in a client's browser is partially controlled by the state of the session, including but not limited to the navigational conditions surrounding a particular visit to the portal. For example, the browser's back button can provide an unexpected experience for portal administrators, users and developers not familiar with the way in which the navigational state is carried in a portal user's session.
Struts Portlet Framework - Content related to WebSphere Portal's implementation of Struts, which is a popular open source project for implementing Web applications using a Model-View-Controller design pattern.
Transcoding and Translation - Sometimes separate, but often related, the portal provides framework for transforming content to meet users' needs, whether for a different markup or native language.
User Interface (UI) Design - Documentation related to changing the appearance and layout of the portal, customizing the portal pages to conform to the appearance and requirements of your organization's Web site, including adding, removing, or changing text, colors, images, links, borders, and the layout of the portal page.
Virtual portals - Information related to the creation and management of multiple virtual portals.
Web Clipping - Documentation related to using the Web Clipping portlet to extract and display portions of other Web-based content within a portlet served by your portal.
Web Content Management (WCM) Integration - IBM Workplace™ Web Content Management (WCM) is integrated into WebSphere Portal version 6.
Web Services - Most often related to using Web Services for Remote Services (WSRP), there are a variety of implementations of Web services that can be delivered by a portal.

WebSphere Application Server Integration - WebSphere Portal support often releases information related to the installation, configuration or use of the portal with the Application Server.
WMM - WebSphere Member Management - Content related to the Member Manager subsystem of the portal.
Workflow - Information regarding the Workflow component of Composite Applications and templates, available to licensed Extend edition customers.
XML Access/ Release Builder - Related topics with a common code base, so often documentation regarding the XML Configuration Interface (commonly called XMLAccess) also affects ReleaseBuilder.