Portal Design

Hi there,
I have a query relating to portal design.
I would like to build an enterprise portal that allows a central office to deliver static content (doc, xls, pdf documents) to a number of regional offices. Access is such that users can see documents relating to their own office but not those relating to other offices.
What's the best way to implement this in Oracle Portal?
(1) Single common portlet for all offices - add all documents to a single location in Portal and assign access privileges so that each set of users sees only their own. Concern that large number of documents may make maintenance more difficult.
(2) Separate Portlet for each office - assign access to the users to their own office portlet and add documents to each portlet. Concern is maintenance of large number of portlets.
(3) Single common portlet with folder structure for documents - pass an office parameter to a portlet so that it knows which folder its documents are located in. Don't know if this is feasible. May allow easiest level of maintenance.
Any opinions or suggestions are very much appreciated.
Many thanks.

a solution that will manage a large amount of docs and a consequent number of offices is :
create a pagegroup that will contain the docs
below this page group, create one page per officehere, you can use sub pages to archivate your content
set the security at the page level.After that, in your portal application, use some portlets to show the content (such as customized search portlets that will show a list of all docs)

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I'd suggest talking to your network guys. Also this could be the result of the SP you are on (we're on 13 for the portal and the backend system -- maybe this feature doesn't work in some earlier SP's?). There are also some options to force the theme as a WD application parameter on the backend side, which you could check into. Details on those are here:
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/7b/fb57412df8091de10000000a155106/frameset.htm]
Also you could look at the requests being made by installing HttpAnalyzer in your browser. You can inspect "post" parameters going from the portal to the backend system. One of those posts (the first one to the backend system) should contain the parameter sap-cssurl (same kind of thing as sp-ep-themeroot). This is where our problem turned up as this parameter was not being posted.
Lastly, make sure that your frontend portal and backend portal are in the same domain. For instance:
frontend.domain.com
backend.domain.com
If your backend and frontend are in different domains it messes all kinds of things up, including stylesheets I think. If you can't get around this, then read about domain relaxing (but I highly recommend getting the domains the same).
When we started, ours were:
portal.dx.company.com
sap.company.com
This created all kinds of problems. Putting our systems in the same domain with the same protocol and fixing our little semicolon web server problem fixed basically all of our portal complaints. Up until that time, we had also had many problems with session management (backend sessions were getting stuck until the HTTP timeout).
That's all I know. Good luck.

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