Wiring portlets
For WebSphere Portal 6.0, and later portal projects, you can configure wires between same-API portlets within the same portal page or across pages, known as cross-page wiring.
Portal Designer provides Page properties in the Properties view that enable you to configure wires. The Wires Properties page lists configured wires and provides possible candidates for source portlets, output properties, target page, target portlets and actions that are required to create a wire. This page allows you to add or remove wiring information. Wiring options are based on cooperative capabilities that have already been configured for specific portlet projects used in the portal page.
Some wiring capabilities require the related portlet projects to be in your workspace to retrieve portlet information. However, all portlet projects of portlets in the selected page do not always exist in the workspace, for example, if you work with the portal project that you imported from WebSphere Portal. The following table shows which functions are supported when a portlet project does not exist in the workspace. (All are supported when the portlet project exists in the workspace.)
Function Available without a portlet project in your workspace Add a wire No Remove a wire Yes Be careful when removing wires from portlets whose portlet projects do not exist in the workspace, because you cannot add those wires again if the portlet projects are not in the workspace.
Display configured wires Yes The Outline view does not display wire elements.
Related concepts
Related tasks
Adding wires
Removing wires
Enabling existing portlets for cooperation
Enabling cooperative sources
Enabling cooperative targets
Related reference
Faces direct portlet messaging
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