The Portlet Palette provides you with a quick and easy way to deploy
portlets to the page. You can drag a single portlet or multiple portlets within
the same category to the page. Categories provide you with a way to organize
portlets in the Portlet Palette. It is recommended that you only add portlets
to the page using the drag-and-drop feature from the Portlet Palette.
When working with the Portlet Palette, keep
the following tips in mind:
- You should be logged in to the portal site using
an ID with sufficient access rights to modify a page. Access control for customizing
and working with the Portlet Palette is based on portlet roles, portlet modes,
and page permissions. The portlets available to you are also filtered by any
restricted portlet lists that exist for a page.
- The drag-and-drop feature is present for default
portal themes in rows and containers that are not locked.
- Entries in the Portlet Palette could become
obsolete. For example, when an administrator deletes a portlet from the portal
while a user is creating or editing pages, the user may not be aware of these
updates. A user must log out and log back in to the portal to view the changes
made by the administrator. If a user attempts to drag a portlet from the
Portlet Palette when the portlet no longer exists, a message is recorded to
the portal logs. Although this is a rare situation, administrators should
not remove and add portlets during normal business hours.
To add a portlet to a page, perform the following steps:
- Click
to open the Portlet Palette.
- Click a portlet from your Portlet Palette and continue to hold
the mouse key down. To select multiple portlets in a category,
hold the Ctrl key down while clicking on the appropriate portlets.
- Drag the portlet to a destination on the page. A horizontal bar
appears as you drag the portlet over areas on the page available for deployment.
When you drag the portlet within close proximity of a permissible drop zone,
the color of the horizontal bar changes from a muted to a more saturated tone.
- Drop the portlet to the page as appropriate by releasing the mouse
key to add the portlet where you view a horizontal bar.
- Click
to close the Portlet Palette.
Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
