Thinking with Portals
Portals allow you to group related content. A portal page has no content of its own, but displays a title and summary of each of its child items.
Creating a Portal
The process for creating a portal is identical to that of creating a page or other item. You can see an overview of the process in Adding Content.
Once you select Add Portal from the menu within the Site Manager, you will be taken to the Edit Content page. As described in the Editing Content section, you can add a title, navigation title, summary, and content to your portal.
What you wont see while editing a portal, is the list of child content within the body of the page. It will not be visible in the content box of the Edit Content page. Any content added within the content box will be placed above the list of active content the portal displays. This is good spot for a section description or summary.
Portal Navigation
Although portals display a list of their content by default, it may be beneficial to add portal navigation to a sidebar or other display region. This navigation can be cascaded to child items, providing easy access to content from any page within the group.
You can add portal navigation as a content object. To view the process of adding a content object to a page, see the section on the Content Objects tab. You can find the Portal Navigation object within the System category.
Sequential Navigation
Sequential Navigation is used to provide a way to sequentially view nodes within a portal. It's useful for creating product tours, breaking large amounts of content into more digestible chunks, or anything that would benefit from viewing in sequence.
To use the Sequential Navigation object, add it as a Content Object on a portal (typically in the display region below the primary content area). Now when you go to view an item in that portal, this navigation object will sequentially take you through each of the items in that portal.