Overview
TechSight/X Portal is InfoTrust's web application dedicated to online distribution of aerospace documentation. TechSight/X Portal is designed to save airline personnel and related companies time and money by establishing an Internet platform for EDT of technical aviation information.
Over this secure Web site, member companies can distribute technical documentation and other time-sensitive information to end users in near real time. Member companies can also distribute password-protected information to any of their own employees or authorized third-party users around the world who have Web access. Even large documents can be distributed using custom interfaces. For example, AMMs and IPCs can be distributed over the Internet.
TechSight/X Portal also serves as a backup and disaster recovery for access to digital data. Operating within the highly secured InfoTrust hosting center, it provides 24/7 services consisting of system monitoring, fault tolerant Internet connectivity, fault tolerant electrical power, protocol load balancing, and premises access security, and support.
Features and Benefits
Portlets
Access to portlets is restricted to users based on roles. Portlets can also be disabled by the end user if not needed. TechSight/X Portal’s portlets are divided in to four categories: core, user selectable, optional, and custom.
Core Portlets
The core portlets are always available to the user and come out of the box with TechSight/X Portal. They include:
- Document Library (for posting technical documents like CMMs)
- TechSight/X IETP (allows access to TechSight/X IETP from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface)
- Search
- Bookmarks
- Recent Documents
User Selectable Portlets
Users, depending on their individual needs, can add the user selectable portlets. They come out of the box with TechSight/X Portal and include:
Optional Portlets
- Message Board
- Company Announcements
- Airline Industry News
- Directory
- Projects
Custom Portlets
InfoTrust can build custom portlets based on your requirements. Examples include:
- Access to External Enterprise Applications
- Employee profiles
- HR forms like sick leave request
- Tracking of engineering orders incorporation by the Technical Publications Department
InfoTrust can also create portlets that will allow access to other enterprise applications like ERP systems for parts ordering and inventory.
- Mail – allows end users to access their company emails from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface. This requires the integration of TechSight/X Portal with the airline’s mail server.
- Shopping – provides shopping cart functionalities and the ability to create an online store with online payments.
Portal Administration
TechSight/X Portal allows administrators to easily manage users, groups, and roles through a GUI interface. Groups signify a collection of users. Roles signify permissions that a group or user can be bound to. Access to portlets is also restricted to users based on roles. Administrators can also specify community pages so that all users who belong to a certain group see the same page.
Personalization
Portlets can be rearranged to the unique preferences (color, screen layout, portlets, etc.) of a user or community.
Online Distribution of Aerospace Technical Documentation
Documents can be distributed via TechSight/X Portal. Large documents can be distributed using custom interfaces (for example, AMMs and IPCs can be distributed over the Internet using TechSight/X IETP or other OEM Viewers can be distributed via Citrix).
Document Distribution
TechSight/X Portal is a neutral site for distributing aerospace documentation that allows complete control of revision and distribution cycles:
- Simple mechanism for posting and uploading documents and Internet links.
- Fast and efficient methods to search for specific documents or links.
- Highly secured site providing firewall technology and password protection.
- Document access functionality giving direct control over who can view documents.
- My Favorites page allowing for access to predefined drill down and search queries.
- Email alerts to provide notification of new document postings.
- Document ownership transfer - allowing the transfer of control from one user to another.
- Logging capabilities including document and user statistics, document transfer tracking, and document alert statistics.
TechSight/X Portal’s Document Library Section provides all the functionality required to manage documents, filter views of accessed documents, and find documents with specific attributes, such as aircraft type or data provider.
Integration with TechSight/X IETP
The TechSight/X IETP portlet allows access to TechSight/X IETP from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface. The following screenshots show some of the features of TechSight/X Portal.
