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The Request Portal was designed under a similar set of guidelines as other MIE features and portals - the primary of which is maximizing flexibility to allow the portal to take on practically any look and feel.

To achieve this design constraint, the concept used in the catch point screens and other portals was employed - namely the ability to merge input and variable information into an HTML design template.  The Request Portal uses the MIE's Merge Tags feature. Merge Tags allows a custom HTML layout to be created and populated with various tags, that the MIE fills in at run time.  This allows practically any selection of colors, layouts, fonts, and images, resulting in a high degree of control over the resulting look and feel of the portal.  This allows the portal to match existing customer intranets or other systems.