There are many useful variables in the Portal Object, most of them defined in scheme%portal&.  The exhausted list of all Portal Object variables can be obtained by <bee tag="pt%dumpobj">.  (<bee:include "common/obj.bs"> is required.)

Site, Path and Page:
The Site URL is assumed to be http://hostname/subpath/ and if there is no subpath http://hostname/.  Slashes are important.

• {pt%SiteName} - {scheme%SiteName}
• {pt%SiteURL} - The Site URL
• {pt%rt} - "/subpath/" or ("/" if there is no subpath); e.g. src="${pt%rt}images/pict.jpg"
• {pt%SP} - /path/to/current/page.htm
• {pt%PP} - /subpath/path/to/current/page.htm (or same as {pt%SP} if there is no subpath)
• {pt%Subpath} - "/subpath" (or "" if there is no subpath)
• {pt%IncludeRoot} - "subpath/" (or "" if there is no subpath); e.g. include "{pt%IncludeRoot}inc/file.bs";
• {pt%TextSubdir} - Text subdirectory (e.g. for content versioning)
• {pt%DirectoryIndex} - {scheme%portal&DirectoryIndex} (default "index.htm")

Menus and Page Bar:
Othe forms of menu

• {pt%PathMenu} - The path menu to the current page
• {pt%PageInfo} - The Menu Record: Parent, Topic, Name, Description, AccessLevel, Page
• {pt%PageBar} - The Page Bar proper
• {pt%PageBarHref} - The "href" attributes of the links on the page bar (Page number is indexed by @n, where n is the page number.)
• {pt%PageBarTitle} - The "title" attributes of the links on the page bar (Page number is indexed by @n, where n is the page number.)
• {pt%PageNumber} - The page number (e.g. 5 for page_5.htm)
• {pt%NumberOfPages} - The total number of pages in the topic
• {pt%ListMenu} - A hierarchy of page links leading to the current page.
• {pt%PrevMenu} - The Menu Record of the previous page
• {pt%NextMenu} - The Menu Record of the next page
• {pt%MenuSelectOptionTags:Page} - A serious of <option> tags that contains the "Page" field of the Menu Record, with the "Name" field as caption.
• {pt%MenuSelectOptionTags:Topic} - A serious of <option> tags that contains the "Topic" field of the Menu Record, with the "Name" field as caption.
• {pt%MenuItemsJS:} - The JavaScript of the loaded Menu Records (from <script> to </script>

Authentication:

• {pt%AuthStatus} - Error code for a login failure (or 0 if otherwise)
• {pt%AuthMessage} - Error message for a login failure (or "" if otherwise)
• {pt%JustLoggedIn} - True if it is the first page to display after a successful login
• {pt%JustLoggedOut} - True if it is the first page to display after a successful logout

Misc:

• {pt%Layout} - {scheme%portal&Layout}
• {pt%SessionTimeout} - {scheme%portal&SessionTimeout}
• {pt%IdleTimeout} - {scheme%portal&IdleTimeout}
• {pt%Phantom} - {scheme%portal&Phantom}
• {pt%DefaultText} - {scheme%portal&DefaultText} (default is <span class="error">Page not found or under construction</span>)
• {pt%DefaultTextPage} - {scheme%portal&DefaultTextPage} (default is /notfound.htm)

Menu Records in JavaScript:
The following JavaScript arrays is addressed by the "Topic" field of the Menu Record.

• ItemParent
• ItemName
• ItemDescription
• ItemPage
• ItemParam
• ItemAccessLevel
• ItemIsMenu
• ItemLevel
• ItemPosition
• ItemsChildren = new Array;