The PowerDesigner Portal

The PowerDesigner Portal allows you to view the contents of your PowerDesigner repository in your web browser. You can share your models with a wide audience, including those who are not PowerDesigner users. Users with the appropriate rights can edit object descriptions directly in the Browser.

For information about the PowerDesigner repository, see The Repository.

• Logging into the PowerDesigner Portal
  In order to log into the PowerDesigner Portal, you must have a repository user account, and obtain the appropriate address for the site from your administrator. Your administrator must also advise you which connection profile to use to connect to your repository.
• PowerDesigner Portal Repository Explorer
  The Repository Explorer is the main page of the PowerDesigner Portal, which contains a tree view of the contents of the repository ( with a Branch Filter at the top) and, on the right, the properties of the selected item.
• PowerDesigner Portal Search
  You can search for PowerDesigner model objects in the PowerDesigner Portal via the Search box in the header. You cannot search external application documents. You must have at least the Read permission to find objects.
• PowerDesigner Portal Users and Groups
  Repository users with the Manage users right can view, create, modify, and deactivate users and groups, and manipulate their assignment to groups via the PowerDesigner Portal.
• PowerDesigner Portal Settings
  The Settings tab lists various parameters that administrators can use to control the server and client components of the PowerDesigner Portal.
• Troubleshooting the PowerDesigner Portal
  These sections contain information to help you troubleshoot problems with the PowerDesigner Portal.