Portal Explorer is a tool for browsing the ECMS and Portal structure. It is similar in layout to Windows Explorer, so the learning curve is short. The underlying tree structure is called Portal File System or PFS.

The portal structure is also stored in the PFS, so each page is also a content, browsable by PE.

End users and developers can create their own Content Types and store them in the PFS. This is true Enterprise Content Management. The example shows a car inventory and some contracts – all defined by users.