> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.scaleflex.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.scaleflex.com/portals/viewing-a-portal.md).

# Viewing a Portal

What visitors see and can do once your Portal is published.

The pages before this one cover building a Portal. This one covers the other side of it — what the people you share it with actually get.

Knowing how the Portal behaves for visitors is what lets you decide how to build it: which sections to use, what to switch on in a gallery, and what to leave out.

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| [Signing in](/portals/viewing-a-portal/signing-in.md)                   | Getting into a private Portal — the system pages a visitor meets first. |
| [Sections](/portals/viewing-a-portal/sections.md)                       | How the sections you built behave, and the gallery in particular.       |
| [Working with assets](/portals/viewing-a-portal/working-with-assets.md) | Previews, metadata, variations, embedding and downloading.              |
| [Share links](/portals/viewing-a-portal/share-links.md)                 | Sharing assets with people who cannot open the Portal.                  |
| [Sharebox](/portals/viewing-a-portal/sharebox.md)                       | The same thing under its other name, and where each half lives.         |
| [Airbox](/portals/viewing-a-portal/airbox.md)                           | Letting people send files in.                                           |
| [Navigating a Portal](/portals/viewing-a-portal/navigating-a-portal.md) | The header, search, the page outline and languages.                     |

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Visitors only ever see the published version of your Portal. Changes you make in the builder reach them when you select **Publish changes**.
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