BEREC IS-Portal help

Introduction

This page provides guidelines to general users on how to work with the BEREC Information Sharing Portal (IS Portal). The IS Portal aims to provide a single point of access to information provided by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of BEREC and to allow users to search across related documents and news. More information on the portal can be found on About page.

Home page

The IS Portal has several basic features designed to offer user-friendly access to shared documents and news:

  1. The ‘Home’ page features several Box-tables containing specific items selected by the BEREC Office. These items contain links to documents or news as well as some metadata.
  2. Users can perform a simple or advanced search of specific documents or information resources on a particular topic by using the Search tool placed at the top of the ‘Home’ page. Search results are presented in the form of a Box-table. Each Box-table contains a list of items found (table rows) and basic document properties (table columns). Users can filter search results by NRA Organization, keywords, and document type.
  3. Users can access the main navigation menu (Main menu) from any page of the IS Portal. The Main menu provides access to all the components of the website: information on NRA organizations, About IS Portal, Help, and login for NRA and BEREC administrators.
  4. Users can use a subscription tool to subscribe to all new items sent electronically on a monthly basis. General inquiries and technical problems can be reported via BEREC Office contact details on the bottom of the ‘Home’ page.
BEREC Office IS-Portal Home page

Search

The ‘Search results’ page contains the following elements:

  1. A Box-table with contains Search results – a list of items matching the search criteria, which were found on the IS Portal.
  2. If a search inquiry returns more than 10 items, search results will be displayed on several pages.
  3. The current search inquiry is displayed above the Box-table containing the search results.
  4. The main search bar is placed at the top of the page to enable users to start a new search at any time.
BEREC Office IS-Portal Search page

The Main search bar allows to see Instant results as you type.

BEREC Office IS-Portal Instant results

The Box-table featured on the ‘Search results’ page allows the user to further process the obtained search results:

  • Apply Filters
  • Sort the results by document properties, and
  • Perform an advanced search of the obtained results presented inside the Box-table.
BEREC Office IS-Portal Filters

The Box table displays the following properties of each item retrieved (table columns):

  • #: Number in the list
  • Status: Active items, which can be downloaded (green), or inactive items, which are temporarily unavailable for use (red)
  • Name: Name of the item/document
  • Languages: Languages of the item/document
  • Organization: NRA organization which uploaded the item/document
  • Modified: Date of last modification of the item/document on the IS Portal
  • Launch date: Date when the document comes to force

The results can be sorted accordingly by clicking on the column headings (yellow bar).

BEREC Office IS-Portal Column headings

Users can narrow down the obtained search results by applying one of the following Filters.

  • NRA: items provided by a particular NRA organization
  • Keywords: items that contain specific Keywords
  • Document type: items of particular type
BEREC Office IS-Portal Filter by Organization

Technical support

For any questions or technical problems, please contact our helpdesk at isportal@berec.europa.eu.