Display Content in Portlets

  1. Log on as wpsadmin and navigate to Administration, then Portlet Management, then Applications.

  2. Search for the IWWCM Content Viewer.

  3. Make a copy of the IWWCM Content Viewer application. You can make a copy of this application by clicking on the copy icon to the right of the application.

  4. Name the Portlet Application XX - Menu Viewer (where xx matches the letters you used in prior steps).

  5. Name the Portlet XX Menu Viewer. Click OK.

  6. Update the Access to the new Portlet Application by pressing the Assign Access to Portlet Application button (right hand side button with picture of key).

    • Edit the role of the Privileged User by clicking on the pencil icon.

    • Click on the Add icon.

    • Add the All Authenticated Portal Users group. Click on OK.

    • Navigate back to the Portlet. Press Apply, OK and Done.

  7. Make another copy of the original Portlet

    • Make a copy of the Web Content Management Content Viewer application and call it XX - Content Viewer. You can make a copy of this application by clicking on the copy icon to the right of the application.

  8. Update the Access to the new Portlet Application by pressing the Assign Access to Portlet Application button (right hand side button with picture of key).

    • Edit the role of the Privileged User by clicking on the pencil icon.

    • Add the All Authenticated Portal Users group.

    • Navigate back to the Portlet. Press Apply, OK and Done.

  9. You will create a New Page called Content Page. Place two portlets on the page XX - Content Viewer portlet on the right and the XX - Menu Viewer portlet on the left.
    • Go to My Portal.
    • Click the Welcome Page.
    • Click on New Page.
    • Call the page My xxSite. (replace xx with the prefix you used in the lab)
    • Select the two pane portlet configuration.

    • Click OK. Click OK again.

    • Click the +Add Portlets button on the right portlet. Search for the Portlet XX - Content Viewer.

    • Check the box next to this Portlet and Click OK.

    • Click the +Add Portlets button on the left portlet. Search for the XX Menu Viewer portlet and add this.

    • Click Done.

    • Go to the configure mode of the right-hand Web Content Viewer portlet and make the following edits:

      Content Type Content.
      Content Select a document from XX_MySiteArea
      Alternate Presentation Template xx_MyContentDetail.
      Select a Target Portal Page [The name of your page you just created]
      Broadcast links This page.
      Receive links Other portlets and this portlet.

    • Click Apply and OK.

    • Now go to the configure mode of the Menu Viewer portlet (the left-hand portlet) and set the parameters as follows:

      Content Type Library Component
      Library Component XX_MyMenu
      Default Context XX_MySite/XX_MySiteArea/[piece of content]

    • Click OK.

    • Broadcast Links to: This Page

    • Receive Links from: None

    • Click Apply. Click OK.

    • Test that your content displays and your menu list updates as you create new content.

    • Dont forget to move the content through the workflow stages by approving it until you get to the Published Stage.

    • If you havent done this already, you will have to edit the relevant Site area and give it some Default Content before the portlets will work successfully.