March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
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IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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Chapter 10. WebSphere Portal administration 617
10.6.2 URL Mapping
This is a new administrative portlet in WebSphere Portal V5.0.
The URL Mapping portlet helps to create friendly URLs and maps them to portal
pages. WebSphere Portal, by default, associates URLs with names which are
hard to interpret. Using the URL Mapping portlet, administrators create these
friendly URLs and hence can associate them with human readable names.
These URLs can be published externally and made available to portal users.
Let us say we have a group of users who need specific information available on a
page. Instead of navigating the portal and locating that particular page, it would
be advantageous to provide these users with a mapped URL which takes them
straight ...