Thanks vivek_saini07 - luckily i am not alone - I figured out the problem with the dashboard url - my template portal did not have a default page. now it has a default page and it copies the contents of my custom template portal to the dashboard. so i am good so far with a single dashboard and a single portal. in my case I need a different dashboard depending on what the user clicks on - I dont know if i can do this based on some request parameter i.e., depending on some request param, i copy different portal to the dashboard ? even if this is possible, when i am copying the portal to the dashboard, wouldn't the user's preferences/where he placed the windows,etc., be lost when i do this - Thanks, D View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4209596#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...