Configuring general Portal Components

In the Portal Configuration part, settings for the portal layout itself, like skins, views and paginating can be edited.

Figure: Portal Configuration

• Selecting the Portal Skin
• Selecting the default Perspective
• Configuring Paginating

Note that currently the configuration of tabs in views is disabled.

Selecting the Portal Skin

In the Skins section, choose from a drop-down list the skin you like to use for the Stardust Portal. You can select following predefined skins:

• Default - This option is selected, by default.
• modern

You also have the option to create a custom skin, which you can select in this drop-down list. Please refer to the chapter Creating and Using Custom Skins for details.

Note
In case you use an Internet Explorer 9 browser, the new skin does not apply. You have to close and restart the browser to make the changes effective.

Selecting the Modern Skin

Click modern to select the modern skin.

Figure: Select Modern Skin

The modern skin has the following features:

• Clean, modern, elegant and Business-like design
• Minimal number of colors from a basic color palette
• Flat styling / no gradients / no shadows
• Squarish styling (form Input Boxes, Buttons, Dialogs, etc.)
• Simple grids with no cell borders

The following screenshot displays the UI with modern skin.

Figure: Select Modern Skin

Note that the modern skin has some issues, which are described in section Issues with modern skin of the Troubleshooting Issues with modern skin of the Troubleshooting chapter.

Selecting the default Perspective

The Perspectives pane provides you the facility to choose the default perspective. So, whenever you log into the Stardust Portal, the chosen perspective get displayed. Select the perspective from the Default Perspective drop-down list.

Figure: Select Default Perspective

By default, the Workflow Execution perspective is selected.

Configuring Paginating

Page Size

In this entry you can determine the number of records displayed per page. Default is 8. The maximum supported number of rows per table page is 250. In case you exceed this number, a warning is displayed:

Figure: Page Size exceeded warning

Note
A high number of rows (greater than 50), might cause severe performance issues as this will affect all tables shown in the Portal! It is recommended to use high values only for single sessions, e.g. where table data needs to be exported, and reset to a reasonable value afterwards.

Max Pages

Max Pages determines the maximum number of pages displayed in the paginator toolbar. Default is 4.

Fast Step

Fast Step determines how many pages to be skipped for fast step. In case the value is zero, no fast step is provided. Default is 3.