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Create a WebSphere Commerce sample portal page on WebSphere Portal
This list highlights the main tasks involved for creating a WebSphere Commerce sample portal page on WebSphere Portal. This sample portal page consists of a set of portlets that demonstrate some of the WebSphere Commerce capabilities through WebSphere Portal. These WebSphere Commerce portlets, when working together using cooperative portlet wires, provide online shoppers with a similar shopping experience to that of the WebSphere Commerce Madisons starter store, while providing merchants with additional online business sales channels to other portal environments. Each of these portlets provide a unique set of WebSphere Commerce functionality that can be further customized by business partners, integrators and customers.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have performed the following tasks:
- WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Portal must be installed and setup using the Deployment Topology.
- Create and activate a new Extended Site from the WebSphere Commerce Hub store. See Create stores for more information.
- Optional: Install a theme and skin on WebSphere Portal which will be used by the new Extended Site. See Deploy the theme in the WebSphere Portal Information Center for more information.
- Install the MVCPortlet portlet application and have it activated to be used by all WebSphere Portal cluster members. See Manage portlets in the cluster in the WebSphere Portal Information Center for more information.
Procedure
- Construct the WebSphere Portal site layout using the WebSphere Portal Administration Console, or use a pre-constructed Composite Application template for the Extended Site. See Manage pages in the WebSphere Portal Information Center for more information on how to create new portal pages and add in portlets.
- Assign the proper access rights to the portal site for the Extended Site user access, using the predefined WebSphere Portal member groups. See Controlling access in the WebSphere Portal Information Center for more information.
Example
The following is a sample XMLAccess script file for creating a sample WebSphere Portal page layout, using several MVCPortlet instances to assemble a simple business-to-consumer shopping flow.
Instructions on how to execute this script can be found inside of the script file, located at WEB-INF/scripts/CreateSamplePages.xml.