Introduction

This guide is an additional guide to the Portal user’s documentation aimed at Portal system administrators who will have additional access above and beyond normal users. Please read the user’s documentation as an overview to basic system capabilities before reading this guide and before using Portal.

Recommended environment

Portal runs as a web service on either port 80 or if using HTTPS, port 443. It is up to the system provider to setup the webserver software and any certificates needed.

We recommend to use modern browsers with the user to achieve optimal results and certain aspects of the system such as the metadata editor require to use one of the follow:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox 78 or later

• Apple Safari 14 or later

• Microsoft Edge

The system works best with the following OS:

• Windows 10

• Mac OS X 10.14 or later