Chapter 3. Getting Started

Table of Contents

1. Experience the Portals
1.1. Gentics Portal.Node SDK Demo Portal
1.2. Gentics Enterprise Portal
2. Wizards, Cheatsheets, Help & Examples
2.1. Wizards
2.2. Cheat Sheets
2.3. Eclipse Help
2.4. Examples

1. Experience the Portals

Gentics Portal.Node SDK comes with two portals ready to be launched off the box. Right from the welcome screen you're able to launch both of them with a single click, or by using the Servers view respectively. To get to know how you reach the Servers view and launch the portals you might want to check out one of our Cheat Sheets (Section 2.2, “Cheat Sheets”) called "Welcome to Gentics Portal.Node SDK", wich can be accessed via "Help > Cheat sheets... > Gentics Portal.Node cheat sheets" from the menu.

1.1. Gentics Portal.Node SDK Demo Portal

The SDK Portal will start you off with a whole load of examples, ranging from very basic "Hello World" portlets up to far more sophisticated Ajax implementations. Thus we hope to have you glimpse on all the cool things you can achive with Gentics Portal.Node.

The Portal itself consists of two Portletapplications named MyPortletapplication and SamplePortletapplicaion which can be accessed from the Project Explorer on the left. In conjunction with a proper server configuration these elements make up the Gentics Portal.Node SDK Demo Portal Server found in the Servers view. MyPortletapplication is intended for you to have a crack at Gentics Portal.Node whilst SamplePortletapplicaion demoes various features and the ways to implement them. You may add your own portlet application at any time by drag'n'dropping it right on a desired server. You might also want to hop over to Chapter 4, Development to get a more in-depth introduction.

1.2. Gentics Enterprise Portal

Together with our Gentics Portal.Node SDK we deliver the Gentics Enterprise Portal, which demoes some features and twists that can be achieved with Gentics Portal.Node, that may act as a hint for your own implementations. Amongst many some of the features we're really proud of are:

  • Drag'n'drop-style configureable sidebar which holds your applications

  • smooth integration of applications as portlets or via iframes and clipping

  • multilanguage content portal

All you have to do ist launch the Gentics Enterprise Portal Server from your Gentics Portal.Node SDK Server View! In-depth coverage on how the Gentics Enterprise Portal works can be found at http://www.gentics.com/infoportal .