Composite applications

 

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Composite application use shared meta-data and content to provide content geared to specific business tasks.

For example, the following components could be bundled into a composite application...

• People finder
• Document library
• Project team room
• Search
• Mail
• Calendar
• Address book

For a step by step tutorial on how to create composite applications, see:

Tutorial: Portal Composite Applications.

For another tutorial, see:

• Building composite applications and templates in WebSphere Portal V6
• Composite App Code Samples

Composite applications can be reused for flexible quick start to projects.

To access, click...

main menu | Templates

Application templates are for use by analysts to implement business models.

There is one common Application Template Library and one Application Library for each portal installation.

Users see the composite applications templates to which they have access, regardless of virtual portal assignments.

 

Application Template Library

The Application Template Library is where you manage templates, create a new template as a customization of an existing template, or import a template. We can start to work initially with the Portal Blank Template.

Application templates define the...

• properties
• page layout
• roles
• parameters

...of composite applications.

Customize them for different teams and communities of users.

The Application Template Library is where you and other users can view all templates that are available for assembling applications and their locked or unlocked status. A template is locked if another user is editing it.

Modifying a template does not alter composite applications that already exist. Template changes affect only the applications created after saving template changes.

For each template displayed in the Application Template Library, we can display its drop-down menu to see the choices available to us for editing the template. Our access rights to work with application templates determine which actions are available to you.

Edit Template Workflow is available if the application template is workflow-enabled.

 

Application Library

Use the Application Library to create and edit composite applications.

The membership portlet of a composite application lists the members of the application by their assigned roles. The components of the application are deployed on one or more application pages.

After you open an application we can customize using the drop-down menu of the application page. Access rights determine which actions are available.

• Edit Application Properties
• Edit Application Layout
• Assign Application Members
• Manage Application Roles
• Edit Application Workflow
• Save Application as Template
• New Page
• Edit Page Layout
• Edit Page Properties
• Assign Page Permissions
• Delete Page

Edit Application Workflow is available if the composite application is workflow-enabled.

To add components, open an application to the page where you want to add a component. Then open the portlet palette and drag a component from the list of portlets onto the page of the application.

 

See also

1. Users, tasks, and tools
2. User access to templates and applications
3. Work with application templates
4. Work with composite applications
5. Define workflow

 

Related concepts

Access rights
Multiple virtual portals
Resources

 

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