Customise the NOP

Overview

The NOP Main view, with all its Portlets and applications visible and maximized, results in an vast amount of information displayed on a very large page which can prove unpractical to use in certain context, and will in most cases require some extensive vertical scrolling.

You can avoid this by hiding all applications which are not relevant to your activities, and minimizing the ones that you do not use on a regular basis.

This is the Main View in Tactical phase, fully deployed on the left and with a number of applications removed and other minimized on the right:

Customisation

The customisable elements are grouped in 5 'phase' tabs, in the same way they appear on the Portal Main View:

Resources
Post-Operations
Tactical
PreTactical
Strategic

Similarly, the Portlet (Application) names are listed in three columns, matching the actual layout of the NOP main page.

Main Page Layout

Note: Since customisation is related to a User, and not to a Role, the list of Portlets displayed in the NOP customisation editor is extensive and includes them all. As a result, you may likely see items in the editor which would not be visible to you in the Main View (or would be, under a different role). Please refer to the Login to the Portal section for more information on Roles.

From each of the tabs, you can modify the Main page Layout attributes and establish, for each of the listed applications, which will be visible (checking or unchecking the corresponding field in the Is Visible column) and which will be minimzed by default (checking or unchecking the corresponding field in the Minimized column).

While an invisible Portlet can not be made visible again from the NOP Main View, you can change the minimize/maximized status of any Portlet using the or button located in the Title bar, to respectively reveal or hide its content. However, changes made outside of the Customisation Editor are considered temporary and will not be saved in the configuration data.

Caution: Please note that you can not change the order of the portlets, nor can you change their location in the layout. This is only about hiding or showing elements in a fixed grid.

In the example below, we have highlighted three changes:

The 'Reserve' Portlets, in the first column of the Resources tab, have been unchecked from the Is Visible column - they will therefore not appear on the Portal Main View;
A number of Portlets from the third column have been set to be minimized on the Portal Main View;
The Application Name column has been changed to display the listed elements sorted by name (ascending alphanumeric) - this is for the user's convenience only and will have no change on the Portal Main View.

Tabs Order Display

This second section allows you to change the tabs display order.

The Time option sorts the Phase tabs from the past (on the left side) to the far future (on the right side) - as shown below:

On the other hand, the Workflow option reflects the logical sequence in an operational perspective: planning ahead (Strategic), refining the plan (PreTactical), operating (Tactical) and finally assessing results (Post-Operations).

Saving the changes

Lastly, click on the Save button to save the changes. You can check the Common Features section for additional help on the customisation process.