Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide, Release 2.3

Portal Pages Titles, Content and Labels Character Limits

There is a maximum and minimum range of characters you can enter in the titles, text boxes, instructions, field and button labels, and other visual elements on the Portal Page Customization tab.

Character Limits for Portal Pages Titles, Content and Labels

The navigation paths for these portal page UI elements are:

For Guest portals, choose Work Centers > Guest Access > Portals & Components > Guest Portals > Edit > Portal Page Customization > Pages.
For Sponsor portals, choose Work Centers > Guest Access > Portals & Components > Sponsor Portals > Edit > Portal Page Customization > Pages.
For Device portals, choose Administration > Device Portal Management > (any Portals) > Edit > Portal Page Customization > Pages.

Use this information when you enter content in the titles, text boxes, instructions, field and button labels, and other visual elements of the portal page the you are customizing. These updates are applied only to the specific page that you are customizing.

Note

Whether you enter single-byte or multi-byte characters, you can only enter the maximum number of characters identified for a field. Multi-byte characters do not affect the character limit.


Field Category	Fields	Field Labels: Minimum Characters	Field Labels: Maximum Characters	Field Input Values: Minimum Characters	Field Input Values: Maximum Characters
Common page elements	Banner title				256
	Footer elements			0	2000
	Browser Page Title			0	256
	Instructional Text			0	2000
	Content Title			0	256
	Optional Content 1			0	2000
	Optional Content 2			0	2000
	Button labels	0	64
	Check box labels	0	64
	Tab labels	0	64
	Link labels	0	256
AUP	AUP Text			0	50,000
Message text	Message text (displayed on page)			0	2000
	Message text (displayed in pop-up window)			0	256
Field labels	All fields labels	0	256
Field input (general)	Field input in general (see special cases below)			0	256
Field input (special cases)	Access Code field			1	20
	Registration Code field			1	20
	Username fields			1	64
	Password fields			1	256
	Phone Number field			0	64
	Device ID field			12	17

Portal Customization

You can customize the appearance of the end-user web portals and the guest experience. If you have experience with the cascading style sheet (CSS) language and with Javascript, you can use the jQuery Mobile ThemeRoller application to customize portal themes by changing the portal page layout.

You can view all the fields by exporting the CSS theme or language properties from the required portal page. See Export a Portal's Default Theme CSS File for more information.

CSS Classes and Descriptions for End-User Portals Page Layout

Use these CSS classes to define and modify the page layout of the Cisco ISE end-user web portals.


CSS Class Name	Description
cisco-ise-banner	Includes logos, banner image, and banner text. On the Sponsor and My Devices portals, this class also contains buttons that can activate a context menu. For example, the menu can bring up a pop-up window with options to Log Out, Change Password, and so on.
cisco-ise-body	Contains all page elements that are not part of the banner.
cisco-ise-optional-content-1	Empty by default. You can add text, links, and HTML and Javascript code.
cisco-ise-main-content	Includes the main contents of the portal page, such as instructional text, action buttons, and the cisco-ise-footer container.
cisco-ise-optional-content-2	Empty by default. You can add text, links, and HTML and Javascript code.
cisco-ise-footer	Part of the footer, it is a placeholder for links such as Contact Support and online Help.
cisco-ise-footer-text	Empty by default. It is a placeholder for anything that you want to display at the bottom of the portal page, such as a copyright notice or a disclaimer.

Figure 1. CSS Classes Used in the End-User Portal Page Layout

HTML Support for a Portal Language File

The zipped language file for each portal includes the default language properties files for that portal. Each properties file includes dictionary keys that define the content that displays on the portal.

You can customize the text that displays on a portal, including the content in the Instructional Text, Content, Optional Content 1, and Optional Content 2 fields. Some of these fields have default content and some are empty.

Only some of these dictionary keys associated with these fields support HTML in their values (text).

HTML Support for the Blacklist Portal Language File

The navigation path to this portal's Instructional Text , Content,Optional Content 1, and Optional Content 2 text boxes is Administration > Device Portal Management > Blacklist Portal > Edit > Portal Page Customization > Pages. You can use the View HTML Source icon in the mini-editor and add HTML code in your content.