Portal Guide
CHAPTER 30
This chapter describes system portlets designed to provide out-of-the-box functionality for portal pages. It covers the following topics:
The Portal Page Controller portlet displays the currently selected personal page or shared page at a designated location on a container page. This portlet must be added to all container pages.
Typically, the portal administrator places this portlet in a content pane on a container page, as in this example:
In this layout, the Portal Page Controller portlet automatically renders the page selected from the navigation pane by displaying its content and layout in the content pane of the container page, as shown:
The links in the navigation pane are generated automatically by the Page Navigation portlet, described in Page Navigation portlet.
There are no preferences to set for the Portal Page Controller portlet.
The Page Navigation portlet provides a graphical user interface that lets users easily navigate to all container, shared, and personal pages that they are authorized to access.Typically, the portal administrator places this portlet in a navigation pane on a container page, as in this example:
The Navigation portlet automatically creates a set of links to the pages available to the logged-in user. In the following example, the Navigation portlet presents the container, shared, and personal pages that are available to the logged-in user:
You can configure the following preferences of Navigation portlets
|
Preference |
Description |
What to specify |
|---|---|---|
|
width |
Width of portlet content display |
A number of pixels or percentage |
|
layout |
HTML layout for this portlet |
HTML content or a scoped path pointing to HTML content |
|
tooltip |
Display tooltips for page links |
true or false |
|
navigation-justification |
Justification of navigation text |
none, left, right, or center |
|
listmaxrows |
Maximum number of displayed rows when navigation type is set to List |
Integer |
|
containerpages-show |
Display links to container pages |
true or false |
|
containerpages-title |
Text to display as a title for container page links |
Text string |
|
containerpages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to container pages |
One of these constants:
|
|
containerpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible HTML form |
query(invisible form) or path(link) |
|
containerpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to container pages |
ascending or descending |
|
containerpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting container page's name or priority |
alphabetical or priority |
|
containerpages-categories |
List of page categories to filter the list of container pages. Uncategorized filters uncategorized container pages. |
List of categories (text strings) |
|
sharedpages-show |
Display links to shared pages? |
true or false |
|
sharedpages-title |
Text to display as a title for shared page links |
Text string |
|
sharedpages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to shared pages |
One of these constants:
|
|
sharedpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible HTML form |
query(invisible form) or path(link) |
|
sharedpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to shared pages |
ascending or descending |
|
sharedpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting shared page's name or priority |
alphabetical or priority |
|
sharedpages-categories |
List of page categories to filter the list of shared pages. Uncategorized filters uncategorized pages |
List of categories (Text strings) |
|
userpages-show |
Display links to personal pages? |
true or false |
|
userpages-title |
Text to display as a title for personal page links |
Text string |
|
userpages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to personal pages |
One of these constants:
|
|
userpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible HTML form |
query(invisible form) or path(link) |
|
userpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to personal pages |
ascending or descending |
|
userpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting personal page's name or priority |
alphabetical or priority |
|
quicklinks-show |
Display quicklinks? |
true or false |
|
quicklinks-title |
Text to display as a title for quicklinks |
Text string |
|
quicklinks-navigation-type |
Format for presenting quicklinks |
One of these constants:
|
|
quicklinks |
List of links, external or internal |
Syntax: label~url Example: Novell~http://www.novell.com |
|
personalize-display |
Display link to Portal Personalizer? |
true or false |
|
portalpageadmin-display |
Display link to Portal Administration page? |
true or false |
|
login-logout display |
Display link to portal login or logout? |
true or false |
|
quicklink-display |
Display quick links? |
true or false |
The following table shows each format that you can specify for containerpages-navigation-type, sharedpages-navigation-type, and userpages-navigation-type preferences in the Navigation portlet:
|
Navigation type |
Preview |
|---|---|
|
simpleRow |
|
|
simpleColumn |
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|
simpleTree |
|
|
list |
|
|
menu |
|
|
hierVMenu |
|
|
hierHMenu |
|
The Page Header portlet provides a mechanism for creating a customized look and feel for Web pages in an organization. Typically, the portal administrator places this portlet in a header pane on a container page to establish a corporate identity.
You can configure the following preferences for Header portlets:
|
Preference |
Description |
What to specify |
|---|---|---|
|
width |
Width of portlet content display |
A number of pixels or a percentage |
|
logo-image |
Logo to be displayed in the header |
URL |
|
background-image |
Background image for the header |
URL |
|
background-repeat |
Repeat pattern for the background image |
no-repeat repeat-x repeat-y repeat |
|
background-position |
Position of the background image |
top, middle, bottom OR left, center, right |
|
layout |
HTML layout for this portlet |
HTML content or a scoped path pointing to HTML content |
|
sitename |
Portal main title |
Text string |
|
salutation |
Welcoming words to precede the username display in the header |
Text string |
|
anonymous-salutation |
Welcoming words to anonymous users |
Text string |
|
userformat-html |
HTML layout to define the display pattern for the username |
HTML content with uses of User scoped path |
|
date-display |
Display today's date? |
true or false |
|
date-style |
Date format patterns |
Date format See Format scoped path for available patterns |
|
personalize-display |
Display link to Portal Personalizer? |
true or false |
|
portalpageadmin-display |
Display link to Portal Administration page? |
true or false |
|
login-logout display |
Display link to portal login or logout? |
true or false |
|
Tooltip |
Display tooltips for page links? |
true or false |
|
navigation-justification |
Justification of navigation text |
none, left, right, or center |
|
listmaxrows |
Maximum number of displayed rows when navigation is set to List |
Integer |
|
containerpages-show |
Display links to container pages? |
true or false |
|
containerpages-title |
Text to display as a title for container page links |
Text string |
|
containerpages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to container pages |
One of these constants: One of these constants:
|
|
containerpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible form |
query(invisible form) OR path(link) |
|
containerpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to container pages |
ascending OR descending |
|
containerpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting container page's name or priority |
alphabetical OR priority |
|
containerpages-categories |
List of page categories to filter the list of container pages. Uncategorized filters uncategorized container pages. |
List of categories (text strings) |
|
sharedpages-show |
Display links to shared pages? |
true or false |
|
sharedpages-title |
Text to display as a title for shared page links |
Text string |
|
shared pages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to shared pages |
One of these constants:
|
|
sharedpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible HTML form |
query(invisible form) OR path(link) |
|
sharedpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to shared pages |
ascending or descending |
|
sharedpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting shared page's: name or priority |
alphabetical or priority |
|
sharedpages-categories |
List of page categories to filter the list of shared pages. Uncategorized filters uncategorized pages |
List of categories (Text strings) |
|
userpages-show |
Display links to personal pages? |
true or false |
|
userpages-title |
Text to display as a title for personal page links |
Text string |
|
userpages-navigation-type |
Format for presenting links to personal pages |
One of these constants:
|
|
userpages-urlmode |
Method used for navigation: regular HTML links or use of an invisible HTML form |
query(invisible form) or path(link) |
|
userpages-sorting |
Order in which to display links to personal pages |
ascending or descending |
|
userpages-sortmode |
Field used for sorting personal page's name or priority |
alphabetical or priority |
|
quicklinks-show |
Display quicklinks? |
true or false |
|
quicklinks-title |
Text to display as a title for quicklinks |
Text string |
|
quicklinks-navigation-type |
Format for presenting quicklinks |
One of these constants:
|
|
quicklinks |
List of links, external, or internal |
Syntax: label~URl Example: Novell~http://www.novell.com |
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