Configuring a New Portal

With the Portal feature, you can curate and share specific content with your brand teams or medical communications departments in a simplified user interface. Curated content provides users with the most relevant material, and content filters aid users in finding the correct assets. You can easily create, configure, and populate Portals by creating individual Portal object records through Business Admin or a custom tab.

How to Enable Portal

To enable the Portal feature in your Vault, navigate to Admin > Settings > Application Settings and select the Enable Portal checkbox.

About the Portal Document Fields

The Portal (portal__v) and Portal Widget (portal_widget__v) shared document fields are required on all document types available for use with your Portal.

If these fields are not already configured in your Vault, navigate to Admin > Configuration > Document Fields and set each field to Active. Next, assign the shared fields to all applicable document types.

Creating a Portal

To create your Portal, create a Portal object record:

  1. Navigate to Business Admin > Portals.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Enter a Portal Name.
  4. Optional: Enter a Description for your Portal. This appears in the About section on your Portal Homepage.
  5. Optional: Enter a Primary Color. These must be six-letter Hex Color Codes. If you leave these fields blank, your Portal defaults to standard Vault colors.
  6. Optional: Select a Portal Logo from your Vault library. The logo displays in the Portal’s header and on the Portal Selector page. Your logo file should be an image file (PNG, JPEG, etc.) as opposed to a video file, audio file, or other Vault document. If you don’t choose a logo, no image displays in the Portal Selector, and the standard Vault logo displays on the Portal Homepage.
  7. Optional: Select a Version for the logo image document. This selection defaults to the latest Steady state version.
  8. Click Save. To create another Portal, click Save + Create.

When you save your Portal, Vault automatically creates the Portal Widget object records that make up your Portal’s object framework and Portal Homepage. To view your new portal, select View Portal in the Portal record’s Actions menu. Your Portal opens in a new tab.

To configure the object page layout for your newly-created Portal object, select Configure Page Layout from the Actions menu. This only affects the layout of the object record details page, and not the layout of the Portal homepage.

Configuring the Portal Homepage

You can configure and populate the Vault-created Portal Widget object records from your Portal object record to build out your Portal Homepage and Library.

About the Portal Widgets

When you create your Portal, Vault automatically creates the following Portal Widget object records. You can populate some of these with content manually, while Vault automatically populates and updates others.

  • Carousel: You can display content as a large click-through banner at the top of the Portal Homepage with the Carousel widget.
  • Content Filters: You can create custom views in your Portal Library and then assign them to your Portal. Your Portal users can use these content filters to easily find filtered content.
  • Featured Items: You can display the top content that you want Portal users to see in the Featured Items widget.
  • Most Popular Widget: Vault automatically updates the Most Popular widget with the Steady state documents assigned to the Portal with the highest number of source file or rendition downloads from your Vault in the Portal in the previous 45 days.
  • Recently Added Widget: Vault automatically populates the Recently Added widget with the steady state documents added to the Portal in the previous 45 days and reached steady state in the last 45 days.
  • Coming Soon: Vault automatically populates the Coming Soon widget with the documents assigned to your Portal that are in the In Review or Starting state. This widget provides user visibility into content that will soon be approved and available.
  • Most Active Widget: Vault automatically populates the Most Active widget with steady state documents assigned to the Portal with the most activity, including views, copies, downloads, and rendition downloads, in your Vault and across all Portals. Learn more about the Document Usage object below.
  • Most Viewed: Vault uses the Document Usage object to automatically populate the Most Viewed widget with the most viewed Steady state documents associated to the current Portal that exist in your Vault and across all Portals. Learn more about the Document Usage object below.
  • Additional Content 1-9: You can manually select content that you want to appear in these widgets. We recommend renaming the widget to reflect the content.

If you accidentally delete a Portal Widget object record, you can recreate it. However, you cannot create more than one of each Portal Widget type. For example, you can only have one Featured Content widget per Portal.

Portals Created Prior to 23R3

You must enable the Additional Content 5-9 widgets in Portals created prior to 23R3. We strongly recommend reviewing permission sets to verify that Portal consumers and editors can view the widgets.

How to Configure a Portal Widget

From Business Admin > Portals, open your Portal object record. Within the Portal record details page, open a Portal Widget record from the Portal Widgets section and click Edit. You can edit the Name and Display Max, and populate the widget. See Using the Portal Editor about the Display Max and how to populate a widget. You can also set the Status to Inactive so that the Portal Widget does not display on the Portal Homepage. When you finish configuring a Portal Widget record, click Save. Use the breadcrumb trail to navigate back to your Portal object record.

Document Usage Metrics

Vault includes a Document Usage object that captures metrics to provide a more accurate view of document usage over time. Each time that a user performs specific actions on Steady state documents, such as views, downloads, copies, and rendition downloads, Vault automatically creates a new Document Usage object record.

In Portal, Vault uses Document Usage data to automatically populate the Most Active and Most Viewed Portal widgets. The Document Usage object captures all activity that occurs in your Vault, and not activity in individual Portals. For example, a document’s view count includes views by Portal-only users in the Portal as well as views by all other users in the PromoMats Vault.

Note that if you disable Document Usage Metrics in your Vault, the Most Active and Most Popular widgets won’t appear on the Portal homepage, even if they are set to Active.

Adding Content to Portal

You can add content to specific widgets in your Portal, or to the Portal Library overall.

How to Populate a Portal Widget

When you populate a widget, you create relationships between the various Portal Widget object records and Vault documents. You can add documents to multiple widgets.

  1. In your Portal record, click a Portal Widget object record in the Portal Widgets section to navigate to that Portal Widget.
  2. In the Portal Widget object record, click + Create in the Portal Widget Contents section.
  3. Choose Document in the Select Portal Widget Content Type picklist and click Continue.
  4. Leave the status as Active.
  5. Click the binoculars icon to search for a Document. You can use various filters to drill down into your Library.
  6. Click the green plus (+) icon to select your document.
  7. Click Save. To populate more content, click Save + Create.

When you add a document through the Portal Widget Contents section, Vault automatically creates a Portal Widget Content object record, populates the document’s Portal and Portal Widget metadata fields, and adds it to the Documents section in your Portal Widget object record.

Vault automatically populates and updates the Recently Added, Most Popular, Coming Soon, Most Active, and Most Viewed object records.

How to Add Additional Portal Content

You can also add content to your Portal Library without adding it to a Portal Widget object record. Content added to the Portal but not to a widget appears in the Portal’s search results. You can associate documents to multiple Portals.

  1. Search for and open a document in your Vault Library.
  2. Click Edit Fields.
  3. In the Portal Details panel, select the Portals to which you want to add the document.
  4. Click Save.

About Custom & Panoramic Thumbnails

You can upload specific document renditions for your Portal content to adjust the look of document thumbnails in the Portal Homepage and Portal Library. When available, Vault displays the custom thumbnail in the Portal as opposed to the default thumbnail for the content.

Vault also supports an additional Panoramic Thumbnail rendition type only for the Carousel widget. When creating an image to use as a panoramic thumbnail, we recommend uploading a 1280 x 300 pixel image. If the image does not fit the 1280 x 300 pixel space, Vault displays the image with white margins on the left and right sides. When uploading a panoramic thumbnail, note that Vault only displays image files and does not display files with viewable renditions.

When available, Vault displays a panoramic thumbnail in the Carousel before any other type of thumbnail. If a panoramic thumbnail is not available, Vault defaults to the next available thumbnail, for example, a custom thumbnail.

Adding a Custom Thumbnail

To add a custom or panoramic thumbnail:

  1. Navigate to your document.
  2. In the Doc Info Renditions panel, click the blue plus (+) icon.
  3. Select Custom Thumbnail or Panoramic Thumbnail from the drop-down list.
  4. Choose a file. The file must be an image file or a file with a viewable rendition.
  5. Click Upload.

You can set a custom thumbnail for a binder by enabling binder thumbnails in your Vault.

About Document States

In the Portal Homepage or Portal Library, users launch a Quick Document viewer when they click content. The Quick Document viewer displays key document details, including the document’s name, status, document type, and description.

Content Filters

With Content Filters, you can create a saved, filtered view that displays specific content for your users. Users can also see Content Filters in the left-hand panel of the Library. When a user selects a Content Filter, it returns a filtered list of related documents and binders.

How to Create Content Filters

  1. Navigate to your Portal Library and click All Portal Library.
  2. Optional: Use the search bar to set up a search.
  3. Optional: From the Filters panel, set additional filters.
  4. From the heading area, click Save View As.
  5. Enter a Name, Description (optional), and Icon (optional) for the view. The description appears when users click the question mark (?) icon next to the heading when the view is open. The icon appears next to the filter name in the Library and Content Filters widget on the Portal Homepage.
  6. Click Save. This creates the custom view.
  7. Open the Portal Editor.
  8. Click + Content Filter.
  9. Select the saved view in the dialog.
  10. Click Continue.

Vault saves your view as a content filter and displays it in the Content Filters widget in the Portal Homepage and Portal Library.

Announcements

You can create announcements in the Announcements section of your Portal object record to share information with Portal users across a single or multiple Portals. Content on the Announcements page displays in chronological order from newest to oldest.

When creating announcements, you can schedule them to post in the future by setting the publication date to a future date and time. These announcements do not display on the Announcements page in the Portal until the scheduled date and time.

If you wish to disable Announcements in your Portal at a later time, you can set the Announcements Portal Widget Content object record to Inactive.

Creating New Announcements

After you create the Announcements content filter, you can create announcements from the Announcements section in your Portal object record. To create a new announcement:

  1. Click + Announcement.
  2. Enter a Title. The limit is 128 characters.
  3. Select a Publish Date. Then, click into the field to edit the publish time. You can schedule an announcement to publish in the future by setting this to a future date and time.
  4. Optional: Enter an Author. The limit is 100 characters. If left blank, this field displays the name of the object record creator.
  5. Optional: Enter Body text for the announcement. The limit is 1,500 characters. We recommend drafting your announcement outside of Vault, and pasting the announcement text into this field when you are ready.
  6. Click Save.

Reusing Announcements

You can use one announcement across multiple Portals by creating the announcement directly from the Announcements object in Business Admin. This is helpful when you want to share an announcement across several Portals. Click into an Announcement object record and click Add in the Portals section to share an announcement with different Portals.

Portal Maintenance

You can maintain and update your Portal by adding new content to your Portal Widget object records.

Vault updates the Most Popular, Recently Added, Coming Soon, Most Active, and Most Viewed object records daily. To update manually, select Synchronize Assets in the Portal record Actions menu.

Assigning User Permissions

You can grant users access to Portals in two ways:

Portal Users

You can set users as Portal-only users when they only require access to your Portal and do not need additional Vault access or in-depth Vault training. These users only see Portals and have no other access to or permissions in Vault. To set a user as a Portal-only user, create and assign them a security profile with the following permissions:

  • Object: Portal: Read
  • Object: Portal Widget: Read
  • Tab: Portal: Read

PromoMats & MedComms Users

To grant PromoMats and MedComms users access to Portals, you must assign them a security profile with the following permissions:

  • Object: Portal: Read
  • Object: Portal Widget: Read
  • Tab: Portal: Read

Portal Access Control

If you’ve created multiple Portals, you can use Dynamic Access Control or Custom Sharing Rules to grant or deny users access to specific Portals. This is useful if you manage multiple teams, and each team only needs access to the Portal for their brand or therapeutic area.

The following permissions control your ability to create and edit Portals:

Type Permission Label Controls
Security Profile Object: Portal: Read, Create, Edit, Delete Ability to see, create, edit, and delete Portal object records.
Security Profile Object: Portal Widget: {Portal Widget}: Read, Create, Edit, Delete Ability to see, create, edit, and delete Portal Widget object records; you need this for each individual Portal Widget object to work with records of the type.
Security Profile Object: Portal Widget Content: {Portal Widget Content}: Read, Create, Edit, Delete Ability to see, create, edit, and delete Portal Widget Content object records; you need this for each individual Portal Widget Content object to work with records of the type.