WebSphere Portal v6 - Administration Portlets

 

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  1. User Interface Portlets
  2. Manage Pages portlet
  3. Themes and Skins portlet
  4. Portlet management
  5. Web Modules
  6. Portlet Applications
  7. Portlets
  8. Web Services portlet
  9. Web clipping portlet
  10. Access
  11. Portal Settings
  12. Portal Content
  13. Portal Analysis
  14. Search Administration
  15. Virtual Portals
  16. Other portlets that are useful for administration

 

User Interface Portlets

Manage Pages

  • Export page configurations in XML
  • Create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages
  • Create, edit, activate, order, and delete external Web pages and labels

Themes and Skins

  • Install, edit, and delete themes and skins
  • Set default theme and skin

 

Portal Management Portlets

Manage Web Modules

Manage Applications

Manage Portlets

  • View or manage existing portlets
  • Enable portlets as Web services.
  • Display a list of all portlets
  • View and change portlet settings.
  • Rename and delete portlets
  • Add, modify, or delete portlet configuration parameters.

Web Service Configuration

  • Set up the portal for consuming WSRP

  • Configure Web service Producers on the Consumer portal side.

  • We cannot use the Web Service Configuration portlet for the following:

    • Provide Web services, that is make the portlets available to other portals as remote Web services. To provide Web services as a Producer, use the Manage Portlets portlet.

    • Consume Web services, that is integrate Web services provided by a Producer as remote portlets in the portal. To consume Web services as a Consumer, use the Manage Web Modules portlet.

Web Clipping

  • Identify and extract specific portions of a document for display in a portlet.
  • Display an entire document by referencing a URL or tag only a key section.

 

Portal Access

Users and Groups

Resource Permissions

  • Set portal access roles.

User and Group Permissions

Assign, view, and modify the roles and permissions that users and groups have on various portal resources

Credential Vault

Manage vault segments and vault slots.

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Resource Policies

  • Apply rule-based expressions of business logic to control the user experience.
  • View the list of policy types
  • Edit policy settings,
  • Import and export policy definition files
  • Assign policy type access to users
  • Create sub-policies.
  • Select, create, and edit policy rules that consist of simple conditional statements.

 

Portal Settings

Global Settings

Define what the user sees in the portal, including the default language and the Find link.

The default language specified in Global Settings applies to all users when the language preference specified in their browser is not supported by WebSphere Portal.

For example, if WebSphere Portal supports...

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish

...with English as the default language in Global Settings, a user whose browser language preference is set to Italian would see English because Italian is not supported in this case. A user can also select a preferred language when registering with WebSphere Portal.

Global Settings also determines what users see when returning to the portal on subsequent visits. For example, we can choose to display the most recently visited page rather than a default page.

Allow users themselves to choose what they see when logging on to the portal, or if they see the default page or the most recently visited page.

Determine a URL for the Find link.

URL Mapping

Create readable, user friendly URLs and map them to portal pages.

Publish these URLs externally and thereby make them available to the portal users.

Custom Unique Names

The portal uses object IDs to identify portal resources unambiguously even between different portals. They consist of an extended alphanumeric string that may be difficult to remember. The Custom Unique Names portlet enables us to assign unique names to portal resources.

Select names that are easy to read and remember. These custom unique names make identification of portal resources easier than the object IDs assigned by the portal, for example when porting resources from one portal to another.

Supported Markups

The Supported Markups portlet allows us to determine which markups the portal recognizes.

Add, edit, activate or deactivate, and delete a markup. The installation default is HTML.

Removing or changing the HTML markup will cause portal access problems. The XML configuration interface must be used to recover from this error.

Supported Clients

Determine what types of devices can access the portal.

Add, edit, order, or delete clients.

If we need to test a portlet with a device simulator you may need to add the user agent string of the device simulator to the WebSphere Portal client list.

Import XML

Import an XML file.

For example, from a staging server we can export pages and portlets into XML using the XML export button on Manage Pages and then use the Import XML portlet to import the configuration to a productivity server.

 

Portal Content Portlets

Manage Document Libraries

  • Create and maintain document libraries within Document Manager.
  • Configure versions, approvals workflow, and document locking.
  • Search, create, edit, and delete libraries
  • Copy libraries and importing multiple files.
  • Assign user access to document libraries using the Management Document Libraries portlet.

Web Content Libraries portlet

  • Add, edit, copy and delete Web content libraries to better manage the Web content.
  • Specify access control settings for the library itself and the types of content it contains.

Syndicators portlet

  • Create, edit and delete syndicators used to replicate content between WCM environments.
  • Identify the libraries available for replication by subscribers.
  • Define which libraries are available for syndication
  • Change the order that libraries are syndicated.

Subscribers portlet

Create, edit and delete subscribers used to replicate content between Web Content Management environments. Subscribers are associated with a syndicator and receive updates from all libraries that are specified by the syndicator.

 

Portal Analysis

Frequent Users

Show how many users have been logged in for the past 90 days.

Enable Tracing

Enable or disable the tracing logs.

 

Search Administration

Manage Search

Create and manage...

  • search services
  • search collections
  • search scopes

Searchable resources include various document types, for example HTML and text documents. Portal sites can also be indexed and searched.

 

Virtual Portals

Virtual Portal Manager

Create, list, modify, and delete virtual portals. When you create a virtual portal, it is filled with the initial default content for virtual portals.

 

Other portlets that are useful for administration

There are other portlets not accessible from Administration that are also useful in administering the portal.

Site Map

IBM WebSphere Portal provides the Site Map portlet. It serves two purposes:

Properties portlet

  • Modify properties on pages and portlets.

  • Accessed when...

    Current limitations for the Properties portlet include:

    • The list of shareable pages displayed by the Properties portlet is limited to those pages that the user can navigate to. As a result, a user might not be able to create explicitly derived pages from some shareable pages.

    • A user must have at least Editor privileges on a page to be able to edit the properties on that page. Privileged users will not be able to edit a page's properties or edit personalization rules, because Personalization rules are part of a page's properties.

Portlet Palette

Drag a portlet to the page from the Portlet Palette to add the portlet to a page.

 

Related information

 

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Portal administration portlets