Cisco Cisco Prime Service Catalog 10.0 技术参考

Portal Designer provides an interface to build a variety of portlets using application data, 
JavaScript/HTML, ad-hoc lists, or third-party JSR-compliant portlets. Portal Designer allows interface 
designers to:

Create portlets from external or third-party sources, such as monitoring data or virtual machine data 
from VMware

Create portlets to highlight common services or 

Create portlets to show users what they already own, with links to services related to those items

Show announcements, video, or other types of media 

Leverage RBAC to create a flexible user interface that is at once simple for casual users, and 
advanced for power users

Access to the capabilities provided by Portal Designer is controlled via standard Role-Based Access 
Control (RBAC). Design personnel can be granted access to all or selected portions of the Portal 
Designer functionality. Access to the functionality of the portal front-end, including the ability to 
customize the portal by adding portlets or changing the look-and-feel of the portal pages, may also be 
controlled via RBAC. Details on the portal-related capabilities and how to assign these to project 
personnel are given in the 

, and in the Organization 

Designer Online Help regarding roles.

Similarly, end users’ ability to access the portal front-end can be controlled via RBAC. Only users with 
a role that includes the “Access Service Portal” capability are able to see the “Service Portal” module 
menu and navigate to the portal pages and portlets.

Portal Designer is the Service Catalog module that allows designers and administrators to design and 
manage pages and portal content; and to specify which users or groups or users are able to access 
particular content. 

A portal or “web portal” provides a user-configurable user interface for accessing application 
functionality.

A portal page can include one or more “portlets”, software modules that can be plugged into the portal 
page and arranged as non overlapping portions of the page. There are two types of portlets available for 
the users in the application:

Reserved portlets – These are pre configured portlets that are installed with every application 
instance. See the 

User-defined portlets: These include JSR portlets or portlets developed using the Portal Designer. 
Portal Designer allows the designer to define the content and presentation of the portlets with 
predefined filters and lookup, HTML, and JavaScripts. A JSR portlet may be developed in any Java 
development environment that is compliant with JSR 168 or 286, and optionally using the Service 
Catalog Java Client to leverage the application public APIs. A third-party JSR portlet can also be 
easily integrated into the portal management solution.