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Use Case 00001:Create a new portal

Release Target: 2.0


Description:

The Portal Administrator makes new Portals available by performing the following steps:

  • Creating a new portal.
  • Creating the group of Portal Participants for that portal.
  • Creating portal tabs, if desired, for the portal.
  • Adding the appropriate portlets to the portal and portal tabs.
  • Configuring layout and look & feel for the portal.

The Portal Administrator has two possible procedures for creating portals:

  • Creating a new portal from scratch.
  • Creating a new portal by using a portal template. (See Alternate Paths)

While creating a portal, the Portal Administrator assigns the following properties:

  • Portal Name - the name by which the portal is identified in the Web site.
  • Portal Mission - a brief description of the purpose that the portal is intended to fulfill.
  • Portal URL Label - the label of the Web site stub at which the portal appears.
Goal Level: user_goal
Actors:
  • Portal Administrator
Trigger: The Portal Administrator wants to create a new portal
Preconditions:

User has general permission to create portals.

Basic Path:

  1. The Portal Administrator navigates to the creation interface via the portal administration home page.
  2. She specifies a name for the portal.
  3. She specifies a URL stub for the portal.
  4. She optionally writes up a "mission statement" for the portal.

Postconditions:

A new portal is created, with the user who created it identified as its administrator.

Succesful End Conditions:

A new portal is created, with the creating user named as a participant in the portal with administrative privileges, and the Administrator is redirected to the new portal's configuration page.

Alternate Paths: PA may choose to create a portal from an existing system template, rather than create a portal from scratch. See PSRV_00002:Create a New Portal from a Pre-defined Template
Exception Paths:

  • EXC-1: The Administrator does not have permission to create new portals.
  • EXC-2: The specified URL stub contains characters that are illegal for URLs.
  • EXC-3: The specified URL stub is already in use by another portal.

Failure End Conditions:

Sample Narrative:

Open Issues:
Iteration: Finished
Status: ready_for_review

by Eric Lorenzo

Last Modified: 2001/11/06