Portal Tutorial

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Create A Portal

Log-in to the ClearBlade Platform and select the system that you wish to link a portal.
Navigate to the “Portals” button on the sidebar or menu of the developers console
Create a new portal by clicking + Add
Enter the description for your portal

Assign roles

Click the next to your new portal and select Edit Roles in order to give permission for our users to access and edit the portal.

This step assumes we have users in our system, if not, please add users in “Users”. Giving the authenticated role access to read will allow these users to log in and operate a portal. By giving administrator roles CRUD access, they will be able to modify the portal that will reflect in the public view.

Access a portal

Now that we have access to open a portal, click the portal’s link and log in with an administrator’s credentials.

Welcome to your portal!

Delete a portal

Click the next to your new portal and select Settings
Click Delete Portal Confirm the deletion when prompted

Datasources

Click “Add Datasource+” in the side editor
Complete the information about the datasource in the pop up window. In this case we will use a ClearBlade collection we created previously
Click “Apply” and the datasource and it’s last update will appear in the side editor. It can also be used in a widget under “Dynamic”.

Panes

Create a pane

Click on the ‘+’ button on the top toolbar of the side editor. A dropdown will appear.
Choose ‘New Pane’

A pane should appear in the portal

Edit pane

Click the wrench icon of the pane you wish to edit

Pane fields

Title

Optional title for the pane

Hide Header

Removes Header

Hide Borders

Removes Borders

Tabbed Pane

Whether or not the pane will contain tabs

Theme

The type of theme for the pane (Primary or Secondary)

Pane ID

A unique ID for the pane. Useful when switching tabs programmatically.

Resize pane

Click the resize handle on the bottom right corner or the pane and drag to desired shape

Delete pane

Click the trashcan button on the pane you wish to delete
Confirm deletion when prompted

For tutorial on each widget, click here

Make sure you have added a pane before adding a widget.
Click the ‘+’ button on the pane header toolbar
Choose a type of widget and edit it in this window
Click ‘Apply’ to save the changes

Edit/Delete widget

Hover over the widget and click on the wrench icon to edit. To delete, click on the trash can.

Import widget

There is also an option to import widget configurations. Create and save a widget first.

Flyout pane

Open the flyout menu

Click on the hamburger icon on the left-hand side of the header

Customize the menu title

Hover over the menu title and click the wrench icon

Note

The menu title defaults to the name of the portal but can be configured like any widget

Add menu widgets

Click the plus icon on the left-hand side of the header bar

Edit menu widgets

Widgets can be edited in the same way that they are edited inside of a normal pane

Header Pane

Add widget to header

Click on the ‘+’ button on the top toolbar of the side editor. A dropdown will appear.

Choose ‘New Header Widget’

A pane should appear in the portal

Edit header widget

Hover over the widget you wish to edit and click the wrench icon

Reset header to default

Click the ‘…’ in the side editor toolbar and select ‘Reset Header to Default’

Pages

Create a page

Hover over ‘Pages’ on the side editor and click the ‘+’

Fill in the name of the page and click ‘Apply’

Edit/Delete page

Click on the pencil icon of the page you wish to edit

Click on the trash can icon of the page you wish to delete

Adding children to page

Click on the plus button of the page you wish to add a child page

Add name and parameters

Save the child page by clicking Apply

The default value for the parameter will be used when navigating to the page

Programmatic interaction

The portal provides an interface via the CB_PORTAL object for interacting with pages from within a parser, widget, or datasource.

Selecting a page programmatically

CB_PORTAL.selectPage("/states/TX/city/Austin")

Example use case:

User selects a state from a list of states so the portal should navigate to a new page

Retrieving the current path parameters

CB_PORTAL.getPathParams() // will return {"state": "TX", "city": "Austin"} if the current path is "/states/TX/city/Austin"

Example use case:

The current page changes so the portal should display data that is relevant to the URL parameters
The portal needs to load the correct state on initial startup when the URL is /states/TX/city/Austin

Edit/Delete page

Click on the pencil icon of the page you wish to edit

Click on the trash icon of the page you wish to delete Confirm deletion when prompted

Modals

Hover over ‘Modals’ on the side editor and click the ‘+’
Give it a name, size, make it draggable or add click outside to close. draggable: gives the ability to drag the modal around the portal.close on click outside: allows modals to close when the user clicks away from them. Note: If you make the modal dragrabble, you cannot select ‘close on click’. There will be tips in the modal as a default. You can hover over these and edit the widget by clicking the wrench.
You can also add more widgets by clicking ‘+ Add Widget’ next to the modal
To delete or edit the modal hover over the name in the side editor and click on the pencil or trash can respectively.

Internal Resources

Internal resources can be added in the toolbar on the right in the portal.

There are two ways to add an internal resource:

In the internal resource parser
Importing a file

Parser

Click ‘Add Internal Resource’ and a ‘New File’ modal will appear. Give your file a unique name, choose whether it is a JS or CSS file, and type in the code. There is an option to test before saving the changes.

Type	Parser	Appearance
JS
CSS

Import File

Click ‘Import Files’ and choose the file(s) from your computer.

After being created, they should be listed in the ‘Internal Resources’ section. From there, the file(s) can be exported and searched.

Add More Files

To add more files, hover over ‘Internal Resources’ and click on ‘+’.

Export Files

Mark the checkbox of the file(s) you want to export and click ‘Export Files’.

Delete Files

To delete files, hover the file you want to remove and click on the trashcan icon.

External Resources

External resources can be added in the toolbar on the right in the portal.

In the example we will be using a CSS URI example from Font Awesome Icons. The icons can be found here.

Make sure to add the HTML widget to the portal before continuing with the example.

Copy the URL (https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.9.0/css/all.css) and add it to the box that appears after clicking ‘Add Resource +’.

Hit the enter key to add the resource.

The resource should then get added to the list.

There is a checkbox option to do ‘Block Widget Render’ if there is an import error.

Go to the HTML widget edit and copy/paste the code below in the HTML parser:

<div class="text-center underline">
  <h2>Address</h2>
  <i class="fas fa-address-book fa-7x"></i>
</div>

HTML

Copy

This should appear in the widget:

To delete, hover the resource and the click on the trash can icon that appears.

Parser

The parser can be found in the widget edit page to configure widget. 1. Open the widget edit window.2. Click on ‘Edit static data’ 3. The parser will open a window where you can customize your widget data. On the right side of the parser, the changes you make will appear when you click ‘Test’ 4. Click ‘Apply’ to save the changes

Screen Size Editor

This guide assumes that panes and widgets have already been added to your portal

Select the screen size you’d like to change the layout for by clicking the section in the toolbar at the top of the screen
Adjust the layout by resizing your panes and/or resizing your widgets