To help understand the power of Click Extranet, you should understand key elements that make up the site. With these key elements in mind, you can understand the entire infrastructure. At the most fundamental level, your Click site is made up of three key elements: Pages, Components, and Resources.
Pages — Pages organize information on your site into a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy is a root page that is the starting point for the organization of your site.
Components — A component provides features and functionality to your site. It is presented on a page and provides an entry point to full-featured, rich applications. Components also define the layout through which resources are displayed on your site. Click Extranet includes several core components, including ones to manage pages, documents, web page links, threaded discussions, and calendars.
Resources — Resources are the content of your extranet. Common resources include documents, Web page links, and messages.
Together, these elements represent the building blocks of your Extranet site.
You combine pages, components, and resources to build your extranet. Within a larger extranet, you can use the same core building blocks to create an unlimited number of sections. A section is simply a set of pages dedicated to a single purpose. You can organize sections on your site by target audience, subject matter, function, or whatever else makes sense for your organization. It's entirely up to you.
Click Extranet allows business users to create and maintain sections without help from IT and without compromising the overall integrity of your site. Using delegated ownership and administration, you can empower the people who have the business knowledge to define how information is presented on your site.
Sections are self-organizing, which means the underlying architecture automatically manages the relationship between core elements and determines how users will navigate to it on the site. Sections also support a sophisticated security model that allows authorized individuals to manage access and user privileges to all or part of their site.