Continuing the setup of a public portal based off of the Business Portal, we wanted to add some taxonomy to it. A taxonomy record came installed with the Business Portal that included two topics, Support and Services. There didn't appear to be any differences on the form for private and public facing taxonomy records.
Once you add in some publicly available knowledge or catalog items as Connected Content to these two Topics, they'll show up on the Browse Topics widget on the main landing page of the portal. From here, things get a bit dicey as we needed to make any follow along pages public in order to display something either from a click in this Browse Topics widget or the primary portal menu.
As an example, to set up the main page widget to be clickable, we cloned the Portal Taxonomy page, marked it public, and then added a page route to redirect it to the new target. The widget on this page was public already.
We were hoping to incorporate some of the default Taxonomy page layout into the public view. To do this, we needed to clone the default Topic template, emp_taxonomy_topic and several widgets on that page to make them public as well. We added a new Sample taxonomy record pointing to the new page. From there, by mocking up the URL and putting into the browser, we were able to get access to some of the page layout that is there out of box.
This sort thing could be linked to from the main menu or item on the main page to bring external users to whatever content is connected to the Topic.
