Portals

A Portal is a standalone web application built on top of your data model and automation. Each portal gets its own URL, its own navigation, its own branding, and its own home page. A single application can have multiple portals - for example, a customer-facing portal and an internal operations portal, each showing different pages to different users.

The Portals screen

Navigate to User Interface - Portals to see all portals in the current application:

Column	Description
Portal Name	Human-readable name
Portal ID	Unique identifier
Module Name	Which module the portal belongs to
Created By	The user who created it
Modified On	Last modification timestamp

Use + Add Portal to create a new portal, and the row checkboxes plus Delete to remove portals in bulk.

Creating a portal

Clicking + Add Portal opens the Add Portal panel:

Field	Description
Portal Name	Human-readable name
Portal ID	Auto-generated from the name
Portal Module	Which module this portal belongs to
Subdomain	The subdomain that determines this portal’s URL (see Portal URLs below)
Portal Title	Text shown on the portal’s login page
Navigation	The Navigation to use. Leave empty to have a new navigation created automatically alongside the portal.
Open Page In	How pages open when a user navigates: Tab (each navigation opens in the same tab, replacing the current page) or Window (each navigation opens a new window or tab)
Home Page Type	What the portal’s landing page is - Page, Entity, or Module (see Home page types below)
Use Custom Loader	When checked, reveals the Custom Loader upload - replace the default loading animation with your own file
Logo	Displayed on the login page and in the expanded navigation sidebar
Logo Small	Displayed in the collapsed navigation sidebar (icon-only state)

Portal URLs

Every portal is served at its own subdomain within your workspace:

<subdomain>.<workspace>.anybuild.dev

The main portal uses the workspace root. Additional portals each use the Subdomain set during creation to get their own address - for example, a portal with subdomain customers would be available at customers.<workspace>.anybuild.dev.

Home page types

The Home Page Type setting controls what a user sees when they first open the portal (or navigate to its root). Three options are available:

Page

Points the home page to a specific Portal Page. Select the target page from the Home Page dropdown.

Entity

Renders a built-in entity view as the home page. After selecting Entity, two further settings appear:

Field	Description
Entity	The entity to render
Widget Type	List - shows the entity’s record list; Details - shows a single record’s detail view

When Details is selected, a Mappings section appears to specify which instance to open - map the record’s identifiers (System ID, System Version) from a fixed value or context.

Module

Opens the module’s data entry view as the home page. Select the target Module from the dropdown.

Portal detail view

Click a portal to open its detail view. Top right actions: Open Portal (opens the portal in a new tab), Security Rules, Clone.

Two tabs sit below the header:

Details - the Portal Info card showing Portal Name, Portal ID, Portal Module, Portal Title, and Subdomain. Click Edit to update any of these settings.
Theme - theming options for the portal’s visual appearance.

Portal security rules

Security Rules (top right of the detail view) controls who can access this portal. Each rule sets whether a user or group can open the portal at all.

Field	Description
Rule Name	Human-readable name for the rule
Access Level	Allow - the matched users can access the portal; Forbid - they cannot
All Users	When checked, the rule applies to all users. An All Users Type option appears: Signed-In Users Only (authenticated users) or Signed-In and Anonymous Users (includes unauthenticated visitors)
Security Dimensions	When All Users is unchecked: one or more User or Role entries the rule applies to, with + Add more for additional entries

Where portals go from here

A portal is the container - its content comes from the Navigation that structures the menu, and the Portal Pages and Portal Components that make up its screens.