The Workontrol-PortalSSO (Portal Single Sign On) enables users to login to DotNetNuke portal using accounts from another DotNetNuke portal.  For example, user can login to the child portal using the existing accounts in the parent portal.

Demo scenario:  The fictions Saints Joseph company employs DotNetNuke for the company intranet content management system (CMS).  The CMS consists of five portals as described in table 1.

Table 1 - Saints Joseph portal description.

Portal Name	Description	Type
Intranet	Hosting company policy/procedure documents, company monthly newsletter, and directory listing, etc.  All employees have access this portal.	Parent portal www.saintsjoseph.com/homepage
Management	Hosting  Executive Information System (EIS) reports.  Access to this portal is  limit to company management team	Child portal www.saintsjoseph.com/homepage/management
Finance	Hosting Accounting and Financial modules.  Access to this portal is limit to Finance team members	Child portal www.saintsjoseph.com/homepage/finance
Customer Services	Hosting Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.  Access is limit to customer service team members	Child portal www.saintsjoseph.com/homepage/services
Engineering	Hosting Engineering related systems.  Access is limit to Engineering team members	Child portal www.saintsjoseph.com/homepage/engineering