The Stardust Portal

The Stardust Portal provides a Web-based portal for administration, performing business management tasks and executing interactive process activities. It provides the three perspectives, for business management, administration and workflow, which can be selected in the Perspectives menu item in the main menu.

For an overview of entries in the web.xml file of your Web project, required to run the Stardust Portal or provided to customize the portal, refer to chapter Web Application Deployment Descriptor in the Rapid Application Development guide. Web Application Deployment Descriptor in the Rapid Application Development guide. The required entries are provided by default in the Rapid Application Development environment.

• Login to the Stardust Portal
• Stardust Portal Components
• Business Control Center Perspective
• • Introduction
  • Launch Panels
  • The Business Control Center Views
  • • Processes
      • The Business Process Manager
      • The Process Search
      • The Traffic Light
    • Activities
      • The Criticality Manager
      • The Pending Activities
      • The Completed Activities
      • The Postponed Activities
      • The Stranded Activities
    • Resources
      • The Resource Availability
      • The Role Assignments
      • The Resource Login
      • The Resource Performance
      • The Performance Team Leader
    • Cost and Controlling
      • The Costs and Controlling
    • Reports
      • Report Manager
    • Detail Views
      • Role Manager Details
      • User Manager Details
  • Access Control to the Business Control Center Perspective
  • Controlling Workflow Data Access via Declarative Security
• Workflow Execution Perspective
• • Launch Panels
  • My Documents
  • Document Search
  • General Worklist View
  • Activity Execution View
• Administration Perspective
• • Administrative Actions
  • Views
    • Overview
    • Process Overview
    • Activity Overview
    • Authorization Manager
    • User Group Management
    • Realm Management
    • Daemons
    • Model Management
    • Configuration Variables View
    • Resource Management View
    • Document Repository
    • Participant Management
    • Password Security
    • Criticality Configuration
    • Quality Assurance Management
  • Administration Perspective Access Control
• Common Tables, Detail Views and Dialogs
• • Activity Tables
  • Process Tables
  • The Spawn Process Dialog
  • The Abort Process and Start Dialog
  • The Abort Process and Join Dialog
  • The Case Menu
  • Delegation Dialog
  • Process Details View
  • Notes View
  • Gantt Chart View
  • Process Diagram
  • Document Operations
  • Related Process or Case Search
  • Viewing and Editing Documents
  • Access Control Editor
  • Chat View
  • Creating Correspondence
• Portal Configuration
• Creating and Using Custom Skins
• Launching specific Perspectives or Views via URL

Modifying and Extending the Portal Content

You can use the Portal Framework provided with the Stardust Portal to modify and extend the content of the portal and add your own application components. Please refer to the chapter Using the Portal Framework of the Programming Guide Using the Portal Framework of the Programming Guide for detailed information.

Internationalization

You have the option to internationalize the following text elements in the Stardust Portal:

• labels, content of combo boxes etc. for your layouts,
• names of process model elements

Refer to chapter Internationalization of the Stardust Documentation - Developer Guide. Internationalization of the Operation Guide in the Developer Handbooks for details on how to internationalize your Stardust Portal.

Stardust Portal Error Messages

Stardust Portal error messages are displayed along with error code, which can be useful for developers. You find a list of provided error code and the according messages in chapter List of Error Codes of the Stardust Documentation - Developer Guide. List of Error Codes of the Developer Handbooks.

Figure: Displayed error code in an error message.

Portal Footer

The footer in the Portal provides you with information on copyright, company name and product version number. In case you like to customize the displayed footer, you can use a custom skin. Refer to section Portal Footer of chapter Creating and Using Custom Skins for according options and how to specify these.

Figure: Portal Footer.