Creating perspectives

To create a perspective:

Access the Navigator and click Page Groups.
Click Contents next to the name of the page group to which you want to add the perspective.

Note: If you want to use your perspective in multiple page groups, click Contents next to Shared Objects rather than a particular page group. You must be a portal administrator or have Manage privileges to create shared objects.
Click Create next to Perspectives or, to create a child perspective, click Perspectives and click Create next to the perspective that you want to be the parent.
Specify the properties for the perspective.

Note: The perspective name must be unique within the page group and the Shared Objects page group. The name is used internally and for direct access URLs. The maximum length is 60 characters.
Click Create.
You can now either click the perspective link at the top of the page to further define your new perspective, create additional perspectives, or click Close to return to the Navigator.

Note: When you edit a perspective you can change the perspective's name and title text, add a description, and associate images with it.

When you create a persepective, a page is also created. This page is used to list all the items and pages that belong to the perspective. For example, regions can be set up to display perspectives. When users click a perspective, that perspective's page is displayed, listing all the items and pages that belong to the perspective.
The first time you create a perspective in a page group, a page template is also created and all perspective pages in the page group are based on this page template. This means that if you want to change the way perspective pages look, you just need to edit the perspective page template (rather than each individual perspective page).