Welcome to our documentation center!

Here you will find all the information to get started and become proficient with ManyDesigns Portofino.

This documentation refers to version 3.0.x.

Tutorials:

Portofino tutorials:

• Part 1: Installing and running the software
• Part 2: The first application
• Part 3: Two classes and a relationship
• Understanding relationships
  

User Management tutorials:

• Part 1: Getting started with the user management
• Part 2: Basic use cases
  
• Part 3: Administrator use cases
• Part 4: Adding user self registration
  

The Ticket Tracker sample application explained:

• Ticket Tracker - The data model
• Understanding workflows
• Ticket Tracker - Users, permissions and workflows

An on-line demo of the Ticket Tracket app can be found here.

Release notes:

• ManyDesigns Portofino 3.0 (current stable)
• Introducing ManyDesigns Portofino 3.0 beta 1
• ManyDesigns Portofino 2.0.16
  
• ManyDesigns Portofino 2.0.12

Documentation for older versions:

• ManyDesigns Portofino 2.0.x

Outdated tutorials:

• Understanding the basic user management

Installation guide (Version 3.0.x)

• Overview
  
• Software requirements
• Downloading Portofino
• Creating the database
• Installing the JDBC driver
• Basic configuration
• Deployment:
• Deploying on Tomcat
• Deploying on JBoss
• Deploying on GlassFish
• Deploying on OC4J
  
• Running the installer
  
• Optimizing the configuration
• Running multiple instances
• Populating the database manually
• Upgrading from an older version
• Troubleshooting
  
• Configuration reference

Reference manual (Version 3.0.x):

• Overview
  
• Classes
• Attributes
• Relationships
• User management
• Permissions
• Workflows
• Calculated attributes
• Constraints
  
• Advanced workflows
• Portals and portlets
• Reports
• BLOBs
• Class inheritance
• Custom operations
• Listeners
• Single sign-on
  
• Versioning
• Deployment