Customize the Web Content Authoring portlet
To customize each Web Content Authoring portlet for the people who use that portlet, we can edit the shared settings of each Web Content Authoring portlet on the authoring system.
For example, we can configure authoring portlets in the following ways:
- Select only the libraries the users use. For example, if we configure an authoring portlet to be used only by content creators, select only libraries used to store content items.
- Edit the preview options to best suit the users and the type of website they are creating. We can choose to preview pages on a standard website, on a local web content viewer on the same server as the authoring portlet, or on a web content viewer portlet on a different server.
- Customize the appearance of the authoring portlet by defining various user interface settings. Use these settings to change some of the default settings of an authoring portlet, or to select a custom launch page to use in place of the default user interface.
- Select an appropriate rich text editor for the users.
In HCL WebSphere Portal, the Web Content Authoring portlet is on a hidden page. To configure the portlet to use only a subset of the available site libraries, proceed as follows:
- To open the Manage Pages portlet, click the Administration menu icon in the site toolbar. Then, click Portal User Interface > Manage Pages.
- Search for a page with the unique name com.ibm.wps.hiddenpage.wcm.Authoring_Portlet.
- Select Edit Page Layout.
- From the portlet menu, select Edit shared settings. The portal shows a dialog window.
- In the window, click Library Selection.
- Configure which libraries we want to use for the authoring portlet.
- Click OK in the dialog window.
- Click Done in the main window.
Results
You successfully configured the libraries for the Web Content Authoring portlet.
- Authoring portlet settings
An authoring portlet is used to create and manage web content. We can edit the settings of an authoring portlet from within the Preferences section of the authoring portlet.
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